It was just out of reach. Just millimetres from the tips of my fingers, but in these gloves that just was too much. No act of will could change that; but that didn’t stop me struggling. I needed a helping hand from someone the other side. But they weren’t coming.

Oscar Clark is a video games veteran who wrote the game design/business books Games as a Service and Playing with Balance, published by CRC Press. He also runs a sci-fi improv dilemma actual play Anything Could Happen Show, which is part of the Fable & Folly Network.