Nonlinear gameplay

The Wiring of Video games and Brains Parents should rethink their perspectives of video games’ effects on their children. Some parents think that their children should not be playing video games, because it is not good for their brains, that it may affect the children’s school work, and how they may not be smart if they were to spend a lot of their time playing video games. Video games are fun, and it can be addicting to the person playing the game. Parents are right to think that video games…

How do computers, video games, and watching television affect the mind and body? All three of these have some positive and negative effects on the mind and body. They can range from being as positive as increasing cognitive skills, to as harmful as atrophy of a person’s social skills and muscles. However, there are also ways to counterbalance the negative effects that playing on the computer, playing video games, and watching television may have on the mind and body while still being able to…

When it comes to game adaptions of books there are bound to be obvious differences caused by adapting from one medium to another. Are these differences significant enough to mean that a game can never be a faithful adaptation of a book? Faithful adaptations being an “attempt to recapture the original text as closely as possible” (Beach). Using the book Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena and the game of the same name by Square (now known as Square-Enix), it becomes easy to see that games can never be a…

A student being surrounded by video games is almost inevitable, even more so with video game popularity continuing to increase. Video games are readily available on a variety of different devices including mobile ones, which allows one to be able to play video games at any time of the day, anywhere. Because of its time consuming role in a child’s life, the question of whether video games are affecting a child’s academic performance is often argued. Although parents and teachers conclude that…

Who is behind the complicated process that is creating a video game? Well, the designers, of course! Anybody can become one if they truly want to! Video game design is a job that is worth going into because it offers opportunity for everyone, has appealing qualities like salary, and can be both a hobby (if one enjoys it) and a reliable source of income. Video game design is a position for everyone, and it’s up to the person if they want to delve into this open-minded position. However, here are…

Men. As clear as day, the default setting, for almost anything; unless it has to do with marketing, then the default is a sexy blonde woman who is half naked, trying to sell cologne on a six-foot poster. If women can sell all of these products, why does the marketing industry think that video games with female leads won’t sell? And, why is it that men are always thought of first in a positive way, and women second to mind in a demeaning way? Sex role stereotyping. Sex role stereotyping is hard…

Believing Game: In the except the author believes that video games makes people smarter by stating that , "Playing a video game is, in fact a excise..." This is an believable argument because he uses the evidence," The game presents the player with a series of puzzles, and you can’t succeed at the game simply by solving the puzzles one at a time. You have to craft a longer-term strategy...multitasking—simultaneously e-mailing and listening to music and talking on the telephone and…

PS4 and Xbox One are fantastic, popular gaming platforms but don't rule out the iPhone just yet. Yes, that little technology brick in your pocket can do more than just Angry Birds. Just in time for Halloween, there's a new game on the market and it's the scariest ever made. NIGHT TERRORS ON IPHONE PUT PS4 AND XBOX ONE TO SHAME In the past, people weren't serious about iPhone gaming. However, that was before Night Terrors AR Survival Horror came out. Upon playing it, gamers will have trouble…

life even when the game isn’t being played. The characters have their own personalities, making them more life like, along with the CGI and graphics in their animation. The gameplay of the last of us is intriguing to the point that there are many people who watch the gameplay on YouTube, or watch others play the game. Gameplay videos on YouTube are at an all time high due the games being filled with an interesting narrative and amazing graphics. People would rather watch a game than play it…

Now children from all ages are spending hours every day playing video games, and parents are still struggling to figure out why kids are spending so much time on it. Some one that never played a video games is going to sound like a waste of time sitting there for hours, but for others gamers is the only way to get entertainment because player become a part of the game. Many children are getting in their full development and wants to belong or feel that relate to something important and video…