Combining Minecraft and Star Wars is perhaps one of the greatest ideas of the past three months. Why is it so good? Well, the reasons are too long to list, but here are a few things you didn't know. 1. MINECRAFT UPDATE ADDS STAR WARS…
What rank are you applying for? Moderator. What is your age? 12 Are you a Boy or Girl? I am a boy.…
Minecraft is a game where anyone can build anything and anytime with anyone. Minecraft to me reminds me of the times playing in a sandbox digging and building whatever I wanted. The positive influence in education I see is you freeing your mind and letting out your creativity. Schools give us art class for us to use our imagination.…
How Baseball is a fun Sport Baseball is one of my favorite sports for the excitement of the game. I love baseball because there are a lot of intense moments, like when you’re up to bat with two outs when you need to get on base to win, and more moments like that. One part that I like about baseball is all the positions you can play. I play in center field, second base, and first base.…
Faster, all you can think is faster! Soon the time will be up. All you can do is build as fast as you can. Your friends are trusting you to make this last build. Then you finish, you go back to see your work.…
Entertaining game play • Great background story The Bad • Occasionally glitches • Lagging online play • Multiplayer sometimes required So, let us dive on in the world of Little Big Planet and take a look around.…
Everyone plays games. From the youngest of people to the oldest, we all enjoy a good game. It is a way for us to wind down, relax, and have a good time with our friends and family. However, in recent years, games have become a lot more than just ways to pass the time. They have evolved into something in which the new generations immerse themselves into.…
Did you know that a professional soccer player runs 48 kilometers, or 3.9 miles, in an average soccer game? Hard work doesn't just come from sleeping in soccer you have to work hard and achieve your goals. Soccer is a sport that is well known throughout the world and every day millions of people play soccer. The league is a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose and people playing professional soccer in leagues are making money off of the thing they love to do the best.…
The introduction of the Wii, multiplayer games became more popular through the introduction of Wii sports. Wii sports is a game where the players play sports game with their Wiis, such as tennis golf, and baseball. The games that I would play against very competitive, which led me to wanting the Wii more and more. All of my friends began to get the new systems for their birthdays and for christmas, but I did not. My parents told me that if I kept on getting new game systems I would never learn to be happy with what I have, I would always be wanting more.…
Why have video games become a big success? Back in the early 1900s, people didn’t have video games, they had simple games such as checker and chess. These two games are still widely played, but when computers and televisions started becoming a normal necessity, virtual games became more apparent. The concept of video games started with the first computer game. This game was a version of tic-tac-toe, created in 1952 by A.S. Douglas, a Cambridge university doctoral student (Hile)…
For gamers like me, playing is an escape, an adventure the real world cannot give us. For those of us who can’t ski down the steepest slope, fight off a zombie invasion, or play in the NFL. Video games give us a chance to experience these kinds of things for ourselves. You won’t want to miss out on how our gaming technology will be changing in the future. It is definitely one of the most captivating industries in the whole…
How Players Experience Flow in Video Games Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi flow is explained as the satisfaction the person gets when they concentrate on performing a task. However these activities must not be part of the person 's daily routine. Also ever person will experience flow depending on their preferences in activities (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Smith, & Tosca, 2008, p. 3757). There are seven elements that characterizes flow, which are: a challenging activity, merging of action and awareness, clear goals and feedback, concentration on the task at hand, the paradox of control, loss of self-consciousness, and the transformation of time.…
Just like every other kid on the block , I was glued onto some sort of LCD screen since the age of 8. It was until I entered my first year of high school that I truly understood the beauty of video gaming. I was captivated by the fact that videogames could allow users to role play as certain characters and bring the story to life. It created a unique platform for friends to connect. Inspired by this new understanding, I decided that I wanted to create my own game.…
When I was four years old, I fell in love. It wasn't a feeling that would easily disappear. It was true love, not for a person, but a sport. I fell in love tennis. This is a tribute to my first and best coach who has recently passed away.…
Back in September we got told about our I.B. project and were given some example ideas. None of them seemed appealing to me, and I thought about what to do, I had so many ideas of what to do and found the one that best suited me which was to create a video game and have people play it around the world. I knew video games from the back of my mind so to create my very own video game and have people play it would be outstanding. Although it did have a flaw, I had no experience in making video games. I had a general idea of what to do but not enough to get me far.…