L21 Games

1. Lecture L21 GAMES

2. Games are the one of the most powerful  force in the world

3. Games are universal

4. Games are everywhere

5. Games are played by anyone

6. Games are part of growing up

7. Computer Game History

8. Early Games Cathode ray tube amusement device, 1947 Analog game, purely electromechanical Controlled by control knobs which inﬂuences the   trajectory of the CRT's light beam Player controls a reticle and aligns it to an airplane to shoot down

9. Early Games Noughts And Crosses, 1952 ! A Tic-Tac-Toe game   Ran on EDSAC ! Used the tank display CRT as 35 x 16 pixel screen for displaying his game ! Game did not get well known

10. Early Games Spaceware! 1961

11. Early Games Spaceware! 1961 Programmed on PDP-1 in MIT in 1960 ! One of the ﬁrst time-sharing computers ! Space game where two players try to   shoot each others without being drawn   to the sun in the center !

12. Arcades Special purpose machines ! Most popular game was PONG ! Arcades became popular amongst  young in 1971-1974 ! 2-D boards and movement  of objects ! Special controls and buttons

14. Pong 1974 Atari VCS 2600 1977 Game Consoles In 1974 game consoles start to appear ! Computer games market emerges ! Atari became the industry leader  VCS – Video Computer System 1974 – 1984 Discontinued in 1991

16. The Video Game Crash In 1983 the computer game market crashed ! Throughout the 1984 and 1985, the home video game industry was nearly dead Too much supply of similar games Low quality The public lost interest ! Atari did not want to credit developers

17. Game Consoles Come Back Nintendo Entertainment System, 1986! ! Started the second computer console revolution ! Changed the way games were marketed Strict control of what games were produced and sold Instituted quality standards Instituted content standards

18. Enter the Personal Computer In the 80s Personal computers become more wide spread Games slowly appear in the PCs

20. Interactive fiction In the 80s Interactive ﬁction games became popular! ! Role-playing game in which the player moves around in imaginative adventure world and solves mysteries ! Early games where text games with simple commands ! Slowly graphics was added

21. Enter CD-ROM With CD-ROM new types of games became possible! ! More graphic ! The 7th guest from 1992 ! Myst from 1993 became an   unexpected huge success

23. Multiplayer and 3-D Games Early games were multiplayer games! ! Pong and Spacewar! were multiplayer ! Most games after that were single player games where player plays against the computer or players take turn ! In the late 80s and early 90s networks start to appear Ethernet LANs, then the Internet

25. DOOM introduced 3-D graphics and multiplayer capabilities in 1993 ! 3D game where the player moves around in a 3-D world ! Breakthrough graphics Multiplayer capability on a LAN Multiplayer and 3-D Games

26. Timeline

28. Addiction! ! Some games are highly addictive ! ! Role playing games, MUD (Multiple User Dialog) Example: EverQuest ! Games with progression, construction and commands Examples: WarCraft, CounterStrike, Sims Impact of Computer Games

30. Really simple game, but highly addictive Released on May 24, 2013, discontinued Feb 8, 2014

31. Violence! ! Some games are violent, made for mature  adult audience ! Most games are not violent ! ! Impact of Computer Games

33. “In twenty years, games will have taken over the world and everything will be virtual reality.” -- Ray Kurzwiel The Gaming Market

34. Who plays computer and video games? 51% of US households have a dedicated game console  Source: ESA Essential facts, US data

35. Average Game Player Age 30

36. The Gaming Market

41. 1990 $10 bn 2000 2010 $20 bn $50 bn Games

42. 2014

43. The Market PlayStation 2 is still on top

44. The Market

45. Nintendo • Products – GameCube – GameBoy – Wii – DS • Appeal to families – Apply strict standards • Do most of the games themselves – Difficult for others to enter – Wii got a very good start – Wii Remote

46. Sony ▪ Products – PlayStation, PlayStation2 – PlayStation Portable ▪ Have the broadest market – Has most of the games ▪ PlayStation3 – With IBM’s Cell and Blue-‐ray Optical Disk – Movie and TV show downloads

47. XBox • Products – XBox, XBox 360, XBox 720 • Appeal to hard-‐core games – Most powerful console – Xbox Live – online game  service – Microsoft is promoting  xbox as entertainment   device

48. Games Drive Technology

49. Source: Economist: Play to Win Graphics

50. Bjarni Þór Árnason: Evolution of Physics in Video Games Physics Processor

52. Source: When looks are no longer enough, Play to win Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Artificial Intelligence Virtual Worlds Characters that   behave human

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