In class Mon Mar 1st

Check out the class "Silly-bus"

Review our Database labels and subsections

Fridays Class Cancelled!

Fridays Class Cancelled!

See you monday!

Database labels

Genre 1 & 2

Adult

Adventure

Career

Casino

Cops & Criminals

Cute

Fantasy

Flying

Gothic

Hobbies & Lifestyles

Horror

Kids

Military

Mystery

Music

Historical

Psychological

Racing

Recreational Sports

Romance

Sci-Fi

Spin Off

Sports

Super Heros

Urban

Western

Other

Type 1 & 2

Action

Arcade

Board games

Card

Dice

Education

Fighting

Hack & Slash

Massive Multiplayer Online

Plat-former

Puzzle

Point & Click

Sports

Shooter

Rail Shooter

RPG

Rhythm

Turn Based Strategy

Real Time Strategy

Survival

Simulation

Text based

Other

Perspective

2D

3D

POV

First Person

Fixed Camera

Isometric

Multi POV

Over the Shoulder

Side Scroller

Third Person

Top View

Player(s)

- single player

- co-op online

- co-op off line

- multi-player offline

- multi-player online

- split screen

Rating = Age Group

All ages

Children

Pre-Teen

Teens

Adult

Storyline

- Linear

- Circular

- Multi-Path Open World

- Multi-Path Selectable

In class Wed Feb 24th

Galaga recreated with tiles

Uploaded to Flickr via mata-leão.

The Personal Research Video Game blogs
- At this point, each of you has a specific video game that you are doing research on. You want to consider the game on many levels. Including but not limited to the following:

* Game Play

* Game Stlye

* Game Aestetic

* Fun factor

* Plot Storyline

* Technology/Systems the game appeared on

* Programmers / Game Company(s)

* Year the game was created and context in which it was created (ie. who was president, what major world events were taking place, what was the style/fashion of the time, popular movies, ect..)

* Context of an average individual within society while playing the game (see above)

* Places the game or it's icons appear in society outside of game culture (culture recycling)

- You need to make at least 3 posts a week to your personal video game blog. This is part of the research for this class. You need to search out information, site references and links for images, videos and information you find. You need to write thoughtful reflections on your finds.

- Get your personal research video game blogs connected to the class blog today.

* We also need to define our database terms

check out some stuff:

San Francisco Video Game Art opening

the Art of the Game at the Smithsonian?

Welcome!

This is the class blog!

It is the focal point for all of our research and all information we collect will be connected to this page.

I will update this site within 24 hours of class. You should check this blog frequently, it is part of the participation grade!

In class today

Did you pick your 3 games?

We need to make our initial blogs! You will each need a personal research blog which will be based on your specific game. We will then need a blog for each game system we review. This includes:

* Oldschool Handheld Games

* ATARI

* Magnavox Odyssey

* NES Nintendo Entertainment System

* SEGA GENESIS

* Super Nintendo

+ more as we go

Video Game Blogs & Database

- Game Name

- System

- Genre

- Type

- Point of View

- Year Released

- Rating

- Image Box

- Image Screen Shot

- Review

- Wiki Address Link