COM 107 Lecture Notes - Entertainment Merchants Association, Escapism, Battlefield 4
10 Dec 2013
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Difference between a video game and a digital game. Video game: interactive gameplay between player and medium interacting with. Narrative: stupid / puzzle, adventure, sports, first person. Advergames, freemium: free to download, pay for level-ups, etc. Brown v. entertainment merchants association (2011: supreme court struck down a ca law that intended to ban the sale of certain violent video games to minors. Interactivity allows us to engage with and control the narrative and the action: interactivity before interactive media, active vs. Identification with avatars (virtually controlled digital representation of self: empathy. We are aroused by engaging activities: we have become more susceptible to persuasion; personality differences, addiction is possible in video games. Increased presence the feeling that we are fully present within a spacer (movies, books, video, tv, music, video games) Goals of serious games: education, awareness, behavioral change, entertainment. History: the oregon trail (1971, 1979: the game (kickstarter)
