Game Culture Watch
"Abstraction in the Video Game" by Mark Wolf
Response:
We have a come a long way in the gaming world. Back in the day when Atari used simple shapes and a little programming to create the first actual video game named Pong. The year is not 2006 and a whole new line of systems are coming out such as Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. The same kind of programming is used, but is much more advanced then when it once was. The graphics as well as sound is at a whole new level.
Quote from text: "Computing and rendering speeds continued to increase, and the next advances in game graphics would include 3-D lighting and shadow effects and eventually texture mapping." (pg 61)
This quote from the text is true in every possible way, with hundreds of examples to prove it. In the reading Simcity was mentioned. If we compare that game with its newest version Simcity 4000 you can instantly see the difference. Other games such as Grand Theft Auto I which consisted of a birds eye view, and pretty much consisted of all 2D mapping, where as Grand Theft Auto 3 consisted of a whole new world where every part of the game was 3D and you were basically apart of the world it self. You could see everything through the character's eyes. It is without question that the advances we have come since the days of Atari's simple programming to today's programming, sound, animation, and development that gaming is just now beginning to show its true growth in the world.
"Semiotic Domains" by James Gee
Response:
There are several of those who can learn simply by listening, but there are also those who can learn visually. Some people do not understand that within a video game there is a whole knew knowledge behind it. Even when playing it the learning process is there. The coding, the interaction, the choices we make in the game and so on all relate to learning in some way.
Quote from text: " Many people who do not play video games, especially older people, are sure to say video games are a "waste of time."" (pg 19).
It that term "waste of time" that bothers me the most. It is the one term almost every kid has heard from their parents at one point in time. Those who often say that you cannot learn any thing from video games, are also the same people who say video games influence vilonece. There is a fine line between influence and learning. Like mentioned before there is a whole system of languages and coding behind every video game. It isn't so much what the video game is about, but in fact how the game was created that makesit the most interesting. It is just unfortunate that most people don't see things the same way.
Response:
We have a come a long way in the gaming world. Back in the day when Atari used simple shapes and a little programming to create the first actual video game named Pong. The year is not 2006 and a whole new line of systems are coming out such as Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. The same kind of programming is used, but is much more advanced then when it once was. The graphics as well as sound is at a whole new level.
Quote from text: "Computing and rendering speeds continued to increase, and the next advances in game graphics would include 3-D lighting and shadow effects and eventually texture mapping." (pg 61)
This quote from the text is true in every possible way, with hundreds of examples to prove it. In the reading Simcity was mentioned. If we compare that game with its newest version Simcity 4000 you can instantly see the difference. Other games such as Grand Theft Auto I which consisted of a birds eye view, and pretty much consisted of all 2D mapping, where as Grand Theft Auto 3 consisted of a whole new world where every part of the game was 3D and you were basically apart of the world it self. You could see everything through the character's eyes. It is without question that the advances we have come since the days of Atari's simple programming to today's programming, sound, animation, and development that gaming is just now beginning to show its true growth in the world.
"Semiotic Domains" by James Gee
Response:
There are several of those who can learn simply by listening, but there are also those who can learn visually. Some people do not understand that within a video game there is a whole knew knowledge behind it. Even when playing it the learning process is there. The coding, the interaction, the choices we make in the game and so on all relate to learning in some way.
Quote from text: " Many people who do not play video games, especially older people, are sure to say video games are a "waste of time."" (pg 19).
It that term "waste of time" that bothers me the most. It is the one term almost every kid has heard from their parents at one point in time. Those who often say that you cannot learn any thing from video games, are also the same people who say video games influence vilonece. There is a fine line between influence and learning. Like mentioned before there is a whole system of languages and coding behind every video game. It isn't so much what the video game is about, but in fact how the game was created that makesit the most interesting. It is just unfortunate that most people don't see things the same way.
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