Art 250 Video Games & Culture

Class Final

2011-04-04T18:18:00.000-07:00

Video Games As Art? With an Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibit, Pong Equals Picasso

5 Min Show and Tell: present something interesting about the video game you researched this semester.

* Make sure your Video Game Blog is linked on the class blog. This has to be done for you to get credit for this part of the class.

* Hand in your Video Game Reviews
- Put the digital copys of your reviews in a folder with your name on it. Hand in the folder/reviews on a thumbdrive.

Video Games in the theaters.
Tron Legacy

In class tue Mar2nd

2011-03-21T19:39:00.000-07:00

The New Tec

PS3 - Xbox360 - Wii

Whats changed from the Nintendo 64, PS1 era?

I know what I want for X-mas next year:

FUN

In class thur Mar 17th

2011-03-16T21:04:00.000-07:00

Play Games

Play Games

Play Games!

In class Thur Mar 10th

2011-03-09T21:36:00.000-08:00

Get your blogs hooked up to the class blog.

present one of your blogs to the class.

Play

Dragon Slayer

NES

Gameboy advance

In class tue Mar 8th

2011-03-07T16:46:00.000-08:00

Get your blogs Hooked up to the class blog.

Share an interesting blog post about your video game.

Video Games & Value

- how much is an old system worth compared to a new system?

- how about then and now?

- off shots in culture?

- cultural off shots?

In class thur Mar 2nd

2011-03-02T20:41:00.000-08:00

Death in Video Games

You Probably won't make it

* Update

The Grave Yard on iPod Touch/iPhone

Old School vs New School

Arcade Games

What makes an arcade game an arcade game?

How is it different from the other game types?

Pac Man

Dig Dug

Galaxian

Play

Pac Man - everyone gets 3 tries

You Probably won't make it

Haunted House [Atari 2600]

* the first Survival Horror game(?)

Mountain Maniac [retro Atari Style]

* get a partner to count the number of things you kill

* What did you Kill

Next Week Video Games and Value

In class Tue Mar 1st

2011-02-28T19:17:00.000-08:00

Tell me about death and your video game.

Braid

Play!

Robotron

LCD & LED

In class thur Feb 24th

2011-02-23T21:17:00.001-08:00

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

2011-02-21T20:09:00.000-08:00

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

Smallest NES controller

Video Games - E3 2010 - AOTS Classics

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

2011-02-17T07:02:00.000-08:00

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In class thur Feb 17th

2011-02-16T18:08:00.000-08:00

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

2011-02-14T19:10:00.000-08:00

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

Video Game Conference

2011-01-09T17:48:00.000-08:00

3rd Global Conference
Videogame Cultures

Friday 8th July - Sunday 10th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the
issues and implications created by the
mass use of computers and videogames for
entertainment and focus on the impact of
innovative videogame titles and interfaces for
human communication and ludic culture. In
particular the conference will encourage equally
theoretical and practical debates which surround
the cultural contexts within which videogames
flourish.

Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the following themes:

1. Videogames and Gaming
Theories and Concepts of Gaming. Identifying Key
Features and Issues. Videogames as Text. Videogames
as Interactive Image. Multidisciplinary Approaches
to Videogame Analysis. Film, Literary, Art Studies
and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Analysis of
Videogames.

2. Videogame Cultures
Emerging Practices in Online and Offline Gaming.
Games as Cultural Artifacts. Pervasive Gaming,
Convergence and the Integration of Videogames.

3. Games and Society
Ethical Issues in Videogames, Videogame
Controversy - Rating, Violence, Sex, Morality and
their relation to Maturity. Videogames and
Politics. Propaganda Games. Censorship.

4. Games with Meaning?
Social Impact Simulations. Educational Use of
Videogames. Serious Games. Documentary Videogames.
Political Issues. The Relationship between Game
and Gamer.

5. Reception, Temporality and Videogames
Player Generations. Old Originals vs. Retro games.
Indie Games and Low-Tech Aesthetics. Innovations
in Independent Game Movements.

4. Immersion and Embodiment
New Forms of Interaction, Immersion and
Collaboration in Videogames. Sound, Music, Touch,
and Game Space. The Role of Innovative Interfaces.

7. Works in Progress
Games in Development. Approaches to Game Design.
Discussion Workshops on Games under Production.
Best Practice and Know-How Exchange.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers
will also be considered on any related theme. A
presentation with a quick demo of the game and
workshop proposals are strongly encouraged. We may
offer a 2 hour slot for 1-3 intensive
workshops on design methodologies and media
comparative sessions. Delegates presenting in the
frame of workshops are eligible for publishing in
special track of Videogames 3 ebook on methodologies.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
14th January 2011. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 27th May 2011. Abstracts
should be submitted simultaneously to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information and in this order:

a) author(s)
b) affiliation
c) email address
d) title of abstract
e) body of abstract

E-mails should be entitled: VG3 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs
Daniel Riha
Charles University
Prague,
Czech Republic
Email: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Email: vg3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues'
series of research projects run by
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and challenging. All papers accepted
for and presented at the conference are eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers
may be invited to go forward for development into
20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed
dialogic ISBN hard
copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-t
he-future-of-interactive-entertainment/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-t
he-future-of-interactive-entertainment/call-for-papers/

Thur Dec 9th

2010-12-07T08:17:00.000-08:00

Final Exam Time?

8:00 - 11:00 a.m

Wednesday

12/15

Which Film

Silent Hill

Super Mario Bros

Mortal Combat

Resident Evil

Tomb Raider

Show me some cool stuff on your blogs!

Play the X-Box 360

Field Trip Today!

2010-12-01T19:32:00.001-08:00

We are meeting at 10am in Anderson parking lot!

See you then and bring your quarters.

2010-11-30T07:31:00.000-08:00

In Class tue Nov 30th

2010-11-29T20:19:00.000-08:00

Video Games in Pop Culture

Video Ping Pong 1969

How Its Made!

Old School Atari Commerical

Game & Watch

Gameboy

Black Ops

Thursday Field Trip to the Mall!

Happy T-Day

2010-11-23T21:23:00.001-08:00

Play video games.

Eat good food.

Have fun.

In class mon Nov 23rd

2010-11-22T21:07:00.000-08:00

Video Games in Pop Culture

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 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

In class thur Nov 18th

2010-11-16T18:57:00.000-08:00

Death in Video Games

The Grave Yard on iPod Touch/iPhone

Old School vs New School

Arcade Games

Galaxian

5 Min to Kill Yourself

Mountain Maniac

* get a partner to count the number of things you kill

* What did you Kill

Next Week Video Games in Pop Culture

In class tue Nov 16th

2010-11-15T19:16:00.000-08:00

Tell me about death and your video game.

Play the Classics!

In class Thur Nov 11th

2010-11-10T21:11:00.000-08:00

Video Games in Pop Culture!

Mario Rescues the Princess

Smallest NES controller

Video Games - E3 2010 - AOTS Classics

Question for next week: Video Games and Death!

- How does your game reflect on Death?

Dragon Play Offs

www.skeuomorphgames.com

In Class Tue Nov 10th

2010-11-08T19:37:00.000-08:00

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

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

The Handheld!

Lets Play

In class Thur Nov 4th

2010-11-03T17:37:00.001-07:00

Art/Video Game Remix

Your Video Game lists

The Video Game Forms

The King of Kong

In class tue Nov 2nd

2010-11-01T19:55:00.000-07:00

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)

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?

In class Thur Oct 28th

2010-10-27T18:39:00.002-07:00

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!

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.

2010-10-27T18:39:00.001-07:00

LAst Day of Class

2010-05-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

Last Day of Class!

Bring in your Video Game data sheets

Bring in any video games you have of mine!

In Class Fri Apr 30th

2010-04-30T09:35:00.000-07:00

Class Cancelled Today (friday 4/30)

We will meet again on Monday.

Play some of the games on Adult Swim between now and then for discussion on Monday!

2010-04-19T20:13:00.000-07:00

Bio Shock Figures

Now I have something I can ask for for X-mas.

In class Mon Apr 19th

2010-04-18T19:40:00.000-07:00

GAme Review and Pac-man

In class Wed Apr 7th

2010-04-06T19:58:00.000-07:00

The King of Kong

In class Mon Apr 5th

2010-04-04T18:44:00.000-07:00

Review your game notes and your personal video game research!

Play Games!

Class on Friday Mar 26th

2010-03-25T18:07:00.000-07:00

We will not have class today!

Keep in mind!

* You should have 24 video games reviewed by now. Don't get too far behind.

* You should be deep within your research on your video game and should have a good set of blogs up by now about your findings

In class Mon Mar 15th

2010-03-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

Bring your 12 Video Game Data/Reviews with you to class for discussion.

We will meet in the lounge today!

In class Mon Mar 8th

2010-03-07T19:36:00.000-08:00

Mario Rescues the Princess

Smallest NES controller

Video Games - E3 2010 - AOTS Classics

In class Wed Mar 3rd

2010-03-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

Final Look at form

Play games

In class Mon Mar 1st

2010-02-28T15:00:00.000-08:00

Check out the class "Silly-bus"

Review our Database labels and subsections

Fridays Class Cancelled!

2010-02-26T06:18:00.001-08:00

Fridays Class Cancelled!

See you monday!

Database labels

2010-02-25T19:33:00.000-08:00

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

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

2010-02-24T08:51:00.000-08:00

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)

- 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!

2010-02-16T15:32:00.000-08:00

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