baseball you need to practice, practice, practice. Videogames incorporate a lot of team play; you need to rely on your team to protect you or the object or to help with taking the enemy team’s object. Teams in competitive games are always one of the most important aspects of the game. According to Aileen Cerrudo, an…
Card games were played a lot during the Renaissance. Games like Frussi, which is also known as primiera. Primiera was highly popular during the Renaissance period. In order to play you had to give every player four cards. The one who gets four cards of the same kind is the winner. About every person played, from royalty to peasants played. Another popular game was Basetta. When the dealer lays down three cards then every players has to draw a card from the pack. Chess was another popular game…
Have you ever wanted to escape reality? Most people do this via hobbies: being taken away by a good fiction book, video games: creating your own avatar or acting as another character and recreational activities: sinking your head into a sport, or running of to Europe on a spontaneous vacation. Unfortunately 7% of the population unwillingly escape their own reality and suffer from a dissociative disorder at some time in their life. “Dissociative disorders are characterized by an involuntary…
I will be describing video games. I am using the descriptive informational text in order to explain video games. This topic is significant to me because, videogames are a major part of my life and I enjoy videogames. Video games are a game played by manipulating images, from a computer program, in which the game is displayed on a screen. Much coding goes into making video games. Video games can be used for a leisurely or competitive activity. I preferably use it to pass time or just have fun…
With the popularity of The Force awakens period, it is good to see that not forgetting the original Lego Star Wars Trilogy, which gives us some great new sets to recreate classic scenes. Case in point, the freezing carbon Bedroom set, which is one of the most iconic moments of The Empire Strikes Back. This set includes a relatively small room, three men - Han Solo, Boba Fett and Ugnaught - and Han Solo in Carbonite pieces. Complexity: This is a relatively small series of 231 pieces, but many…
“Serious games have become increasingly popular as an educational tool in schools, as a training device for professionals and as a means which may add entertainment to teaching and training, making the learning experience fun” (Katsaliaki and Mustafee, 2012). In other words, Katsilk and Mustafee assert that serious games are going behind the spectrum. Where games were just limited to fun and as a way for entertainment; however, that's no longer the case. Many institutions are now using serious…
they have nothing to do at their house and hopefully they can change that. They arrived at the arcade and immediately they signed up to be able to play the games that are there. Right when I got my ticket I looked at all the games to see what games their was that I like and all I saw was a room full of games all their was, was arcade games everywhere and I free a free pass I couldn’t…
Talking to oneself needs not be seen as a sign of lunacy or bizarre behavior anymore. Third-person monologue could become a useful strategy for emotional management according to a team of researchers in Michigan, USA. Apparently, people do a better job of controlling their emotions when they talk to themselves in the third person than talking in the first person. This was the first study to document this phenomenon. The research had financial support from the John Temple Foundation and the…
Pokemon Go has swept across America with people extremely excited at the opportunity to play the game. On street corners and in front of establishments people gather, with cell phones in hand, to play and enjoy the moment. While most fans are still learning all the tips and tricks of this new game, it's caught the attention of everyone who uses a cell phone (including the youngsters). Perhaps that's why it's no surprise that Hollywood is buzzing about a movie. The whispers about this latest…
Medieval Boardgames Humans have created and passed on games since the beginning of time, and learning about these games can teach us about past cultures. (Wilkins 2) The highly developed cultures have more complex games, which is why intellectual boardgames were abundant in medieval societies. Some of these board games are still seen today, while others have disappeared. Nine Men’s Morris is supposedly one of the oldest games in history. Morris comes from the latin word merellus which means…