SOCI 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Video Game Culture, Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing, Simulation Video Game
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The sims is the best selling pc game of all time (jansz, avis, and vosmeer 2010, 235). According to the game"s website, the sims is the award-winning series that started the life simulation game genre. Sims games let you do things you might never do in real life like be a scientific genius, a criminal mastermind, or a happy married vampire with six kids how you play is up to you! Benevolently foster your sims lives, pushing them to excel or plague them with calamities. Construct elaborate buildings and share them with our community of players. (http://thesims. com/en_us/what-is-the-sims, retrieved june 2013) The game"s success is owed in part to its ability to attract people outside of the male adolescent player base. It is often considered the ultimate success story in terms of female players, attracting an unprecedented number of girls and women to a video game (jansz,
