2008년 5월 10일 토요일

8th summary

This week’s lecture was about Computer Games. First, we saw an example of game ‘Pain Station’, which has received a prize from media art festival. It is similar to PingPong and looked so realistic as it has something attached beside players hand and hit’s the hand whenever ball is hitting the wall. We all somehow, I believe has done games anything, video games or computer games. Some people believe games are only for children but I don’t think it’s true. I play more games now than when I was young. Likewise, these days, young children but also adults play games a lot as I see many adults in PC rooms or in the subways with computers, Nintendo, Xbox, or PSP etc… It became familiar to everybody. Then what is in the game that people are all love doing it? There are graphics that shows the movements of the characters or scenes, physics that does the calculation like where the characters would stand, AI that would be running the rules and being the opponents or the enemy and there are more devices like sounds and interfaces too.
These days, there are lots of games that have connection with the movies as well. I’ve seen ‘Tomb Raider’, ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Harry Potter’ etc... In ‘Lord of the Rings‘they tried to make it more realistic and recorded the actors voices. There were parodies as well. ‘LaLa’ from the ‘Tomb Raider’, she became naked in the parody game and another parody called ‘Tum Raider’ looking for foods and the sounds were so funny.
We also saw other games similar to PingPong but one player is the computer. It looks easy to play but it is actually hard to win the computer. But now days, games are in flash so it’s faster and the screen is clearer. But we don’t know, if it’s a good game or bad game. We consider it as a good game when it is sold much. The good thing about the game is that we can discard stress from doing it.
There were two issues to consider from film theory. First was identification which is about the character that is related to the player. Second was about the space that is out of reality like in Tom & Jerry, and Matrix when Neo jumps from a building to another building and flying around.

The topic was so exciting as I like playing computer games like Sudden Attack whenever I get stressed. I am still interested in computer games so it was very fun lecture. It helps me a lot to enjoy but also learn about the game.

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