just my opinion ;)
Saturday, April 28, 2007
hey guys ^^
are u enjoying this weekend?
i slept, slept and slept ^^; hee hee =)
anywayz..
videogames........ =(
what about an interview for people who are crazy about videogames(videomedia)?
....
I just thought it.
cuz we have to do 'presentation' like Media class, right?
but i dont think we have enough time to prepare (i mean, enough but not much..) so im just giving my opinion =)
or
like those video, we can just take some videomania's life..
what do you guys think?
=)
posted by Jen @ 5:29:00 PM,
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yeah :O
yesss we are the tearjerkers.... :O
Labels: rmit, tearjerkers
posted by Jen @ 5:21:00 PM,
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addiction & isolation of the video games
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The isolation question is probably the biggest myth about video games because video games are incredibly social activity....
oh really? :O
Ive thought about isolation of the video games, but i havent found much information yet..
i found the YouTube video 'Insert coins'.
want u guys to see this~ =)
posted by Jen @ 11:18:00 PM,
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Picture Board 1: Compare these
Which toy will your baby grow up with?
Compare people getting together to enjoy a U2 concert with...
gamers getting together to wait for the release of PSP
Compare friends meeting up for a conversation at a table with...
gamers meeting up in a WOW bar for a gay bar top dance
Compare friends playing a game of frisbee with...
friends sitting infront of a tv set for hours looking like that
Compare passing time on a train with friends with...
passing time on a train in isolation
posted by reH @ 12:15:00 PM,
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Possible Test Cases
As an older sister of three 12 year old boys I am watching the impact that video game consoles have on children daily. Between xbox and game boys one or all of my brothers are constantly playing one. Whether it is whilst sitting watching television, or sitting in the car for a 2 minute drive, or at the dinner table, or in a restaurant whilst waiting for the food to arrive. My brothers represent many of their peers in these actions. Not only is it taking away time were children could be conversing with their parents and others but is also becoming a compition or judge of your 'coolness' whether you have the newest console or games.
I am very tempted to aim a video camera at my brothers for a day on one of their untouchable days just to show them what it looks like to see them constantly attached to a video game and how unsociable they become.
posted by tripletsis95 @ 10:49:00 AM,
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Evolution
History has shown that Orcs and Humans alone from the first version of Warcraft (Orcs & Humans - 1994) weren’t enough to leave gamers begging for more. So they pulled out the whole mythical encyclopedia and threw almost all the characters they could find into the battlefield to join the war for the next sequel, Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness - 1995). Players loved it and soon became loyal fans that swore to buy and follow up with every warcraft game that Blizzard produced. Not disappointing the fans, Blizzard came out with Warcraft III (Reign of Chaos) in 2002. This game promised complete control over map creations and gameplay styles with the help of a guided ‘World Map Editor’ function. From there, it exploded! Thousands of different kinds of games started popping up on forums and hardcore fans with a vision to be recognized soon spent most of their time creating a new game play from the old traditional ‘player A builds army, player B owns your ass with an even bigger army’ gameplay as it was getting pretty predictable. What’s more, these gamers don’t really need a week to complete the entire storyline that came with the original gameplay. They were THAT sick in the head. Thou I must admit I ALMOST did get sucked into the dark side, but that’s another story.
Warcraft III (Reign of Chaos - 2002) and Warcraft III (Frozen Throne - 2003)
Out of those thousands of maps that were produced, “3 Corridors”, “Tower Defense”, “Heroes Arena” turned out to be the few most popular genres. The common biting point that they had was you ARE the hero you control. That made the gaming a lot more personal all of a sudden and people love the way they can grow from a feeble ‘Don’t hit me! I’ve got glasses!’ to a ‘Com’on biatch! I’ll pwn you all’ hero with sick weapons and armor. Then, like throwing the dog another bone, Blizzard came up with Warcraft III (The Frozen Throne – 2003) just a year later. Same gameplay, same platform, but more skills and characters for customization. What more of a reason do you need to own that expansion pack!? Then 3 Corridors evolved to DOTA (Defense Of The Ancients) and the whole game turned into a massive map factory where players are constantly exploring new ways to come up with new gameplay. If you ask me, I’d say Blizzard was super smart to let the public do the trial and error test for them. Why rack your brains so hard to come up with a new gameplay when your fans can do it for you while you sit back and count your muchos?
World of Warcraft (2004)
With all the arrows pointing them in the right direction of what people wanted, WOW (World of Warcraft – 2004) was born. Not only was the pun of the name very suiting, the game took a 360 degree twist of style. Interaction, guild forming, epic equipment, personalized avatar characters all mashed up into this MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game). If you scroll up, you’ll see that they started with a game with just 2 types of characters running around chopping each other around a 2D confined map. Now, they offer you the world with a simple payment of $70++ and a monthly $24. You can explore more about WOW just by doing a search on Google and you’ll see they’ve even created a ‘wowwiki’ just for you to find out just about everything in that game.
So introductions aside, you can clearly see that I’m a gamer myself. Not as hardcore as to not sleep for days just to play but I’ve been close enough, playing DOTA till daybreak. But that was just once. Anyway, in relation to our topic, the evolution that I’ve put up on the title was not focused on that game purely, but also the evolution of our approach to video games. We want to research and talk about how games make us want (if not NEED) to get the newer versions every time they come up. The example I’ve given above shows that almost every year a new version of the game is released and every year the same crowd camps overnight in front of the stores just to grab hold of the very first copy in their country. I’ve never done that but it really amazes me to see them actually being away from their computers for so long! Is it really a good thing that our society is being driven and motivated by games? Don’t get me wrong because I’m guilty of being addicted to them as well (hence the PSP wherever I go), but I want to focus on what really drives us to being so isolated in our own world that we hardly make time to talk anymore. We can’t go to our friends in school and expect a keyboard to pop out in their hands so that we can make a conversation with them (thou I must admit that might make an interesting video).
We are losing our power of speech, the one skill that we were force-fed to learn after we’ve mastered walking. As Henry from Group C and I agreed, people are now conveying their problems and life stories on their blogs instead of actually sharing them with their family. They rather let unknown people read about their life and leave their family in the dark about some abusive boss that they have back at work. Are we moving to a world where we have to start turning to media to find out how you family member is feeling? Should we all have floating emoticons beside our ears to tell people how you’re feeling at the moment? Do we all have to hide behind our computer screens because we are afraid to make mistakes in conversation? That our comfort zone is no longer our home, but the portable, log on anywhere, chat messenger that you can just download within seconds?
I shall not say more about this but rather let this blog inform you of our findings that show you how video games, in general, affect our world today. Someone throw in something happy to say about video games cos I’m logging off back to reality. >_<
posted by reH @ 1:30:00 AM,
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advantages of videogames =)
Monday, April 23, 2007
hey guys =)
im sorry, i supposed to put this yesterday but i couldn't do it.. ;)
ok...
personally, im not really enjoying videogames but i thought there are many advantages of it.
so Ive thought about the positive aspects of videogames.
1. yess! For fun!
2. It sharpens your reflexes
3. Kids are safer playing video games inside rather than being on the streets.
4. help them relax and releases some anger
5. can help u to improve your concentration and on the minute decision making abilities.
6. get to meet new people, and learn (PC).
7. getting creative mind...
do you guys agree with me?
I just researched into advantages for last week..
I hope we will discuss these =)
Jen.
posted by Jen @ 7:37:00 PM,
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Curbing with the problem
Another video I found on China's answer to IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder).
posted by reH @ 2:23:00 AM,
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World of Offline Gaming
Its a budget film but it drives a pretty similar message to what we are trying to say. Have a look
posted by reH @ 1:51:00 AM,
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