Day 6 – Lecture Summary
Video Games Studies
Today we looked at the way video games play a part in our world of technology and the different types of games that exist.
Two types we looked at are:
Narratology -Studies the narrative of stories. Ludology - Study of games, this theory asks what is it about games that makes us want to play them?..is it the fun factor?
Video Games Studies includes the following types of games:
Arcade Games
Consoles
Mobile handheld consoles
Computer Games
MUDs
MMOGs
Interactive fiction are video games based on text, they are stories we can interact with.
A new field emerging is platform studies, where we can trace the history of video games according to their hardware platform, from arcade machines to consoles and home computers.
Video games can be seen as a media of communication or expression.
Questions of design was brought up, including artificial intelligence.
Some other questions asked were, “how are games virtual worlds?”, and “What is real and what is virtual?”.
Video games have been looked at recently in terms of how they can educate us and what they can do to benefit our lives academically.
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