Mass Media Wk5

Historical Look of the Media Playground? (First Gaming)

Industrial Revolution led to extra leisure time in the late nineteenth century eventually causing the creation of mechanical gaming like the pinball machine and penny arcades

What is user interface(UI)?

 - (UI) is the point of human-computer interaction and communication in a device

 - How something physcially or digitally presents itself so that we can control or understand its function. 

 - Here are some univrsally understood UI function: traffic lights, close/minimise/maxomise, bin

Types of Games

 - Sandbox - Minecraft (the greatest ever made)

 - Real-time strategy - Age of Empires

 - Shooters (FPS and TPS) - Call of Duty & Fortnite

 - Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) - Fortnite

 - Role-playing (RPG, ARPG, and MMORPGS) - WoW

 - Simulation and sports - Madden/FIFA

 - Puzzlers and party games - Among Us/Fall Guys

 - Racing Games - Forza

 - Action-adventure - Assasin’s Creed & God of War

 - SO MUCH MORE

The Big Three

The Big Three: Sony (Playstyation), Nintendo (Switch), Microsoft (Xbox)

Reaching 50 Million Users?

Reaching 50 million users

Pokemon Go 19d

WE Chat 1yr

Facebook 3yr

Internet 7yr

Mobile Phones 12yr

Computers 14yr

What is Gamification?

The strategic attempt to enhance systems, services, organisations and activities by creating similar experiences to those experienced when playing games in order to motivate and engage users. Examples: Starbucks, Kahoot, Spinify, etc

Video Game Inspired Movies?

- Like oral stories, poems and books before them, video games now inspire films and shape the film industry

 - They extend or retell narratives and influence culture through the growth of video game communities

 - e.g. Minecraft, Mario Bros Movie, Sonic

Video Games and Free Speech

• “Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas - and even social - messages - through many literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world)” - Justice Antonin Scalia

• Video games are  protected against the banning of their distribution under The First Amendment
  
  
  

What do developers need to consider to uphold moral goodness in Gaming?

 Addiction

- Keep people free

- Gambling and impossible odds

What do film industries use to make movies

Film industry are using unreal engine 5 to make movies