final touches

everyone put in equla amounts of work into the project. we all collaborated together on the research and interviews. we met every week at least once and decided that we were going to do alittle something different for pur project using video and interviewing people. it was a good experience and we are happy how it came out.

project in progress_2

me and zach interviewed about 5 people so far and we all plan on interviewing more. i also gathered some other shots of me playing an online game and looking/browsing myspace and looking at my email.. I plan on filiming alittle bit more of facbook and stuff to get are point across and have voice overs of showing this footage when we talk about it. still more to do.. i'll keep you updated.

group project

After collaborating with my group, we decided to approach the online world of gaming and how age limited and the physical aspect of gaming has changed through the years to a more individual and social aspect. Now we have our layout of what we are going to do. we will be interviewing various people from new generation to old generation and we are all apart of doing that as well as thinking up questions. We are going to be doing research on our topic and each person is going to bring in something that they have found. will be updating our process soon.

midterm proposal

I want to focus on technology as a whole in the gaming industry. how technology has impacted our lives in virtual reality and what people get out of it. another thing is that i want to be able to tell the future with gaming technology, what to expect and what to learn from. There are two different worlds for gaming, virtual and the real world. i find it interesting that we went from have a ball that was lit up on the screeen going back and forth called pong to online gaming and mind blowing consoles like ps3 and xbox 360, the next generation consoles. Looking and the graphics from Ps2 and xbox they are a great improvement from the past consoles, the regular playstation and super nintendo. That has only been 10-15 years and now you can play online with people all over the world and much better graphics than ever before. Ps3 and Xbox360 compared to Ps2 and Xbox is also incredible. Ps2 has been out for 3-4 years and seeing the graphic on the new console is impressive. I want to focus on how gaming has impacted our lives through technology and how it has improved over the years.

abstract

People play games, design games and love games. Some people dont even play games and know what to do with a game. There are all sorts of games ranging from video games to computer games, even portables. Throughout gaming history, games have made a trumendous impact on society. Technology has attracted more people to use their fingures and brains and kept people at their T.V.s for hours. The more realistic a game looks the more interesting it can be. Virtual reality and reality itself differ greatly and technology improving at great amounts everytime we breathe in air may make virtual reality seem real in a way of people actually becoming part of the gaming world. As the world changes, technology changes, but technology changes at a much faster pace. The gaming today is much more different than what it was 20-25 years ago and continues to be more realistic and may take over the real world.
In the future there will be more gamers and eventually everyone maybe involved in the virtual reality. it is hard to say what will be next, whether it is flying in the air in virtual reality to actually being placed in the world and fighting off enemies to get the mind blowing affect. Could your brain handle the mind altering state by stepping into the matrix.

NPR special assign. #3

"Another aspect of their identity being in a virtual world comes from a person's real world." ever since Atari cameout it has drivin people to play more and more video games and branched off from there, even earlier concoles or computer games. in the NPR talk it was very interesting how they talk about online gaming and how it affected our society in a positive way. one of the interviewers or talk show people mentioned how video gaming is a male dominant hooby and that through the years to the present day more females are experiencing with video games. they mentioned that about 70 percent of male players use female characters in online gaming. Now that online gaming has come into our world and people from all over the world play together and communicate with each other. The NPR people said that online gaming helps people interact with each other especially if they are a "lonely" person. People become friends, are nice to each other, hell they even meet up sometimes.

I play Socom Combined Assualt online with a whole bunch of people. there are a lot of nice people and people you cant stand. The main idea is that when i play there are a lot of people who are married that play and i know of people play socom at the age of 40 even. this just shows how addicting games can get and that online gaming is a very popular virtual world to evey gamer. Now that video gaming is becoming more popular because of a varity of different thing you can do like online and such catches the peoples eye. When they were talking about how more and more people are becoming involved, was becasue i think technology is a big part of that and also how online gaming has become a huge success. Eventually we will be able to physically go into the virtual world, well not literally, but technology will have more and more realistic images and graphics that we will almost be caught in the act of the virtual real world instead of just the virtual world.

Assign.#2 MacMAME!

The game i decided to play and stood out the most to me was 1941 counter strike (world).. there is a japan version but i think they are both the same game. for some reason the game was at very fast past so you needed quick reflexes. considering it was fast past i didn't get too far..lol. The primary/ preiconographic aspect of this game, just so everyone has an genral idea of the game for those who aren't familiar is that the plane moves from left to right of the screen dodging other planes. it also go up and down, so pretty much everywhere on the narrow screen that is giving. explosions happen everywhere so you have to keep track on what is coming after you etc... clouds are going down through the screen with the background area, which would be the ground or water.. different terrains of all sorts. there is alot going on in tis game and to me it looks very fast pace.. now i dont know if it is suppsoe to be like that but it was fast pace. there are also other allied planes that fly higher than you, which would be closer to you. planes are coming from left to right, all over the place.
The secondary/ iconographic analysis, is that you use the up, down, left and right arrow keys to move your plane and the space bar acts as a power up or power boost where you have planes next to you also shooting, whic hthe shooting button is the shift key. you have to press it continuously to keep firing.. there are planes theat try to attack you and you eventually come to a massive plane that has projectiles get shot at you and you have to avoid them.. "the boos" or big plane is huge.. it pretty mch covers a third of the narrow screen and when the big ship or plane like objet blinks thatm eans you hit it and you have to hit it in the middle. it tries to corner you and destruct you, so basically when i played it only moves side to side rarely and comes toward you to try nd finsh you off. you have to go throughout the terrain it gives you shooting down enemy fighter planes and you get points for every plane you hit.. good luck!
the intrinsic side of this game is that i beleive it is a very addicting game. it makes you want to continue on and on and so forth. i beleive this game had great graphics at the time it was made which attracted many people to buy and play this game. i beleive counter attack stick has good graphics and at the time im sure they were top notch. the affects it has had on our culture i beleive affected us greatly and made a drastic change in the gaming industry and to stide forward for much better games.