A look at what Full Sail student, Bryan Holland, knows about the past 10 years of Game Industry history.
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Question 1: What were the details of the event? This court case has been going on for quite some time, the concern is banning the sale and rental of violent games to any one under 18. Also placing a label on the front and back of the games explaining that the game was "ultra violent"
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? This event is important because as of right now the age on M rated games is 17, it may only be a year difference but that changes the demographics for selling games.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? This wouldn't really affect my job as a designer, perhaps I would have to focus more on non violent games so that the company that I work for could still produce and sell games. How does affect how you might design games? I would possible have to start designing games that were not as violent and more family friendly.
http://videogame.net/schwarzenegger-v-video-software-dealers-association/
Question 1: What were the details of the event? A 51 year old man is suing NCSoft because he is dependent on the game and can not function with out it.
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? This event is important because it shows that the industry is capable of making games that people can not put down. As wrong as that sounds because people do have addictions, I see this as a plus for the industry.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? The event can only be positive, knowing that there are gamers out there that will play a game that you created only means that I would have to make more games. How does affect how you might design games? I suppose that when designing a game I would put safety features in that would tell you when you have played for one hour, two hours, etc.. This would allow for players to know when to turn the game off and go outside.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/29/video-game-addiction-lawsuit-moves-forward_n_698313.html
Question 1: What were the details of the event? Cloud computing allows for games to be rendered server side and then streamed to the client.
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? This even is important to the industry because with streaming of games there isn't a need to make disc based games.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? This would affect my job in a positive way because with a pre render of the game server side this allows for more graphic intense games to play on a less then par computer. How does affect how you might design games? The way that I would design games wouldn't change this would just be one more reason to continue to design games.
http://www.onlive.com/#1
Question 1: What were the details of the event? With the release of controllers and system that allowed for 1:1 movement ratio video gamers dropped the controller for real interaction with games.
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? It allowed for hands free gaming.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? It would allow for myself to design more interactive games.How does affect how you might design games? I would look to design games that were more user friendly, such as sports games or fighting games.
http://www.giantbomb.com/motion-control/92-474/
Question 1: What were the details of the event? One of the main concerns at the conference was sex in video games. This was talked about by Mr. Walters
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? This event was important was because it allowed for all of the people in the industry to hear about things that most people are afraid to talk about.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? This could affect my job by restricting what I was allowed to place in video games due to personal moral and ethics that were spoke of at the conference. How does affect how you might design games? I would have to be careful about the content that I placed in the games that I design.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2748/sex_in_video_games_conference_.php
Question 1: What were the details of the event? Mobile gaming started to flourish in 2003 when phone companies started to support games on their phones. The main company being Nokia which released the N-Gage
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry?
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? How does affect how you might design games?
This event was important to the industry because it allows for more options when it comes to platforms that a company can design games for. As far as affecting my job, this even can really only make it better allowing me to learn more and allowing my company to produce more and more games for a wider demograph. Second, when it would come to how I would design games, you would have to design them so that they could be played on the go, short fast games, mini-games for lack of a better term.
Reference:
Nokia. (2003, May 14). Press Releases, from http://press.nokia.com/PR/200305/903666_5.html
http://press.nokia.com/PR/200305/903666_5.html
Question 1: What were the details of the event? With the shootings at Columbine came an out cry that it could have been one thing that set these children off and that was video games. Enter, law suits against the companies.
Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? This event was important because, this was one of the first law suits against the industry where they were to be blamed for that irrational actions of other.
Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? The could have affected my job by the industry stoping the production on video games due to the scare of people continuing to blame me for problems unrelated to games.How does affect how you might design games? I would have to be a lot more careful when creating games as to not offend any one or put any violence in the games that would influence people to do harm to themselves or others.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15820
Question 1: What were the details of the event? With the release of games such as DDR, Guitar Hero, and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast controllers such as dance pads, guitars, and drums were introduced to the game scene. Question 2: Why was the event important to the industry? Put yourself into the role of a Game Developer or Game Designer. How might this event affect your job? How does affect how you might design games? This even was important to the industry because it opened up true user interaction to the games that they loved to play. This even again would benefit my job due to the fact that it allows so many more possibilities to the games that can be produced. This could affect my job in a positive and a negative way, positive being that I could learn how to create these games and use the new controllers to my advantage. Negative would be the fact that people that already know how to produce these games would be doing so and I could possible be left in the dust.
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