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An activity that happens in games, but not always in games

play

Overlaps with play and with game, not always. Heightened levels of agon, required physical activity.

sport

a for of play or sport. Involves implications beyond the "field" of play

gaming

Contest/competitiveness

Agon

Chance/gambling

alea

imitation/Role playing

mimicry

Vertigo/movement of ones body

Ilinx

Storytelling

Muthos

Allows playing to modify behavior of the real world

Simulation

How games are talked about in the outside world

Representation

How the game affect communities of players in or outside of the world.

Ethnography/Social analysis

What a game means to the author or the culture that is spawned from

Close reading/literary analysis

What are games?

Philosophy of games

The emergences of content as a form

Genre

Year spacewar debuts in MIT lab on PDP-1 computer

1961

Ralph Baer develops pong from brown box

1969 (same year we went to the moon)

Galaxy game, coin operated

1971

First video game console: Magnavox odyssey




Atari founded by Normal Bushnell and Ted Dabney (pong first game)

1972

Taito launches Elepong, first japenese arcade video game

1973

D&D RP System launched by TSR

1974

Sears Tele-gaming pong consoles (Made by atari) becomes first major home video game system

1975

Adventure programmed by Will Crowther




Mattell and others released handheld games




RCA Studio II console




Atari 2600, with combat

1977

Flight simulator debuts on Apple II




Space invaders launched in japan

1978

Mattel Intellivision console




Asteroids(Atari, arcade)

1979

Rise of cracking games

1980s

Computer prices wars: Commodore vs Texas Instruments




TI Drops out of PC business

1980-1983

Zork! Released by infocom




Richard Garriott releases ultima




Space Invaders released for Atari 2600




Pac-man




Clive Sinclair develops sinclair ZX80

1980

Apple II Launched




First war game(Eastern front 1914)




Wizardry Released




Football manager released for ZX81




Pimania released

1981

Xevious and Dragons Lair




Infogrames founded in france. Now known as Atari




Apple Lisa, first home PC with GUI on sale for 10k USD

1983

Croucher releases Deus Ex Machina, Sounds on audiotape




Germany bans first games, because of violence




Apple Macintosh goes on sale for 2k USD




Kings quest ( text only game)

1984

Chris Crawford releases Balance of Power




Ultima IV: Quest of Avator

1985

Console sales reach their nadir




Ubisoft founded in France




Infocom bought by activision

1986

Philippe Ulrich releases Captain Blood

1988

Shift from hardwiring to microprocessors, engineering to software design

hardware development

Turing test

Computers and Intelligence (AI)

Taste is a social phenomenon

Pop culture vs high culture

The importance of gameplay and not jsut representation

Lara Croft

Make listeners and readers more empathetic, convinced that good is rewarded and virtue is punished

Stories tend to...

The force of gameplay

Procedural Rhetoric

Why do people play games?

flow




the experience of satisfying work




fhe experience/hope of being successful




for the social connection




for the pleasure of story




to pretend to be another person

Venn diagram (instrumental)

walthroughs, cheats, code listing

Venn diagram (inn between)

Mods and patches

Venn diagram (Expressive)

Fan fiction, machinima

A discipline that deals with the critical study of games

Iudology(gaming theory)

The theory and study of narritive structures

Narratology

Who released Zork!?

Infocom

Year that atari loses millions due to ET and buries in New Mexico

1982

What happened during Death races release?

moral panic

First computer with GUI

Apple lisa

First game to offer player buildable levels

Lode Runner