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Technological advancements in this day and age are endless. Constant upgrades are being made to all aspects of the video game world. Switching from console gaming to PC gaming is something that just keeps getting bigger by the day. The gaming industry constantly evolving has caused the technology of the film industry as well as the platform that games are being played to be propelled by gaming technology, this paper will examine, content distribution, how video games changed the film industry, and technological advancement. Now before we get into convergence, I will give an overview of the basics of the video game industry.
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The first video game console was made in the early 1970s. There has been an endless amount of consoles made …show more content…
Film being around before video games, the gaming industry turned to film for inspiration. According to Lambie, “When creating what would become the seminal Space Invaders, designer Tomohiro Nishikado was inspired to switch tanks and planes for aliens after reading a magazine article about Star Wars” (The growing Influence of video games on movies). Gaming has film to thank for its early success and the amount of a following they received early on. According to Boxer, “Serkis says: There was probably a time when people in the games industry wanted to emulate films, but now it 's very much the other way around: the technology is driven by video games” (How video games are transforming the film industry). The level of influence that film had on gaming quickly switched when the advancement of gaming technology quickly surpassed the technology behind …show more content…
According to Lambie, “The current and upcoming generation of filmmakers have grown up on video games, and are finding ways of using CG to tell their stories in new and surprising ways” (The growing Influence of video games on movies). With filmmakers growing up with video games, this allows for convergence of both industries. Taking bits and parts of a film and putting it into a game and vise versa has become the norm for both industries. According to Lambie, “Games like Heavy Rain are prized for their realism and cinematic approach to storytelling, while, on TV, the makers of Sherlock use that game’s idea of displaying captions on the screen to illustrate what its characters are thinking (The growing Influence of video games on movies). This is truly where the convergence between film and video games shows, both use new innovations to even further perfect what is being
Technological advancements in this day and age are endless. Constant upgrades are being made to all aspects of the video game world. Switching from console gaming to PC gaming is something that just keeps getting bigger by the day. The gaming industry constantly evolving has caused the technology of the film industry as well as the platform that games are being played to be propelled by gaming technology, this paper will examine, content distribution, how video games changed the film industry, and technological advancement. Now before we get into convergence, I will give an overview of the basics of the video game industry.
1.
The first video game console was made in the early 1970s. There has been an endless amount of consoles made …show more content…
Film being around before video games, the gaming industry turned to film for inspiration. According to Lambie, “When creating what would become the seminal Space Invaders, designer Tomohiro Nishikado was inspired to switch tanks and planes for aliens after reading a magazine article about Star Wars” (The growing Influence of video games on movies). Gaming has film to thank for its early success and the amount of a following they received early on. According to Boxer, “Serkis says: There was probably a time when people in the games industry wanted to emulate films, but now it 's very much the other way around: the technology is driven by video games” (How video games are transforming the film industry). The level of influence that film had on gaming quickly switched when the advancement of gaming technology quickly surpassed the technology behind …show more content…
According to Lambie, “The current and upcoming generation of filmmakers have grown up on video games, and are finding ways of using CG to tell their stories in new and surprising ways” (The growing Influence of video games on movies). With filmmakers growing up with video games, this allows for convergence of both industries. Taking bits and parts of a film and putting it into a game and vise versa has become the norm for both industries. According to Lambie, “Games like Heavy Rain are prized for their realism and cinematic approach to storytelling, while, on TV, the makers of Sherlock use that game’s idea of displaying captions on the screen to illustrate what its characters are thinking (The growing Influence of video games on movies). This is truly where the convergence between film and video games shows, both use new innovations to even further perfect what is being