In class Tue Mar 1st

Tell me about death and your video game.

Braid

Play!

Robotron

LCD & LED

In class thur Feb 24th

Video Games in Pop Culture

TV commercials through the decades

Old School Atari Commerical

Game & Watch

Gameboy

Black Ops

Lets review the database forms!

Play old School handhelds!

In Class tue Feb 22nd

The Beginnings.......

Video Ping Pong 1969

How Its Made!

Video Games in Culture = Sex, Drugs, Pop Culture, Death, Politics, Religion, Education & ??????? found in and effected by Video Games.

BLOG: Video Games in Pop Culture [concentration this week]

Video Games in Pop Culture

Mario Rescues the Princess

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Smallest NES controller

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Video Games - E3 2010 - AOTS Classics

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South Park & Pit Fall

Consider:

- Value

* At the moment Multiplayer games = high value

Call of Duty Black Ops largest income in entertainment history at $350,000,000 in 24 hours

- Transference

where else does the imagery or idea reappear in society?

- Marketability

Can or did the game become a franchise?

Video Games in TV and Movies

Questions about your first week putting 6 games through the process?

Lets Play

Test Blog

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In class thur Feb 17th

Did you check out the Sillybus yet?

Galaga recreated with tiles

Uploaded to Flickr via mata-leão.

The Personal Research Video Game blogs
- We need to assign each of you a specific video game to research. Show me your list of 3 games.

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.

Making a Blog!

- We use Blogger

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

check out some stuff:

San Francisco Video Game Art opening

the Art of the Game at the Smithsonian?

King of Kong

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 12 hours of class. You should check this blog frequently, it is part of the participation grade!


Whats it all about?
We are investigating the role video games play in society and we are cataloging video games into the Video Game Genome Project



In class today

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.


Video Game Database : the Video Games Genome Project
* a new way to define Video Games

- Lets look at the Categories

- Game Name
- System
- Genre
- Type
- Point of View
- Year Released
- Rating
- Image Box
- Image Screen Shot
- Review
- Wiki Address Link


Each of you needs a game system and access to games to complete this course.

Atari