lecture week 10 studying the video game

studying the video game. (the study of games)
- why?
it is not to lear us how to make games, but the effects of games.
and the meening whith the lecture today was to bring us the entertaining part of the subject.
diffrent video games, diffrent time.
who is the audience?
2005: male made up the 80% of the game players demografi.
many diffrent types games
-pc games
- online games
- consule games
-consume games
- mobile games
diffrent markeds (versli diffrent markeds)

sterio types game players.
everyone see the 20-25 year old man who live at home with mom and dad, and stay in his room all day loong playing games.
(this isnt true in all cases ;)

25-40 olde (male) made 59 % of players
and the rest was made by female 41%

comunity based games is mostly played by female.

pc games are dominante by male

fittnes games
wiii (this is a game i like to play) dont need to think so much :)


most games are much like everydayulife
-everyday life
-objective
-how
- work\earn \ learn

1)social sciense aproach
affect of game on people
- violece - video games make violent people
- how violece is portrayed in video games

this is relevant, there have been many diffrent storys about young boys who have brought weapons too school and, killed, and been standing and looking at there boddys waiting fore them to stand up again, game over! and the restart. some people cant play thise games, i think, some times they cant separate reel and fiction.


2)humanities aproach
meening and cintense of games.
narrative - what is the story of the games is trying to tell? (like films)
majority of films have narrative
artifacts of a given time

3) the industry of enginering aproach!
- development of games \ new technology

how computergames are used!
wii - in gyms - cheting, it is reconstructing of things you doo in the gym. (why dont do it "your selves")

diffrent ways of being used!

primary school- this is good fore the kids that isnt active! in some ways.
reierment homes - fore elderly who is unabel to move a lot, waking is hard fore. and it gives them a feeling of being active.m

at teh end of the lecture he took up to volenters of the students, to make a experiment.

male female
cross rons, but mostly play pc games consume, guitar hero and
fps first person shooters pokemon (bringing up and
bringing up)

this experiment was to show that not everybody who plays games gets "affected by it" and dont turn violent, a smal prosentedge of game players do.
in resherche it is shown that people who play games develope better skills in perenting
multitasking, thinking quik an have a short time memory.

was a fun and intresting lecture today :)