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Games are brain training to help us be as rational as we can be  Richard LeMarchand

To do:

1 .read a game journalism site GAMASUTRA

find it[| here]

2. Read a case study.( Batman below)

3. Think about Avatars and play



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4. Read about games organization e.g idga

http://www.igda.org/

5. Think about Production studios

Weigh up features of the commercial aspects of this industry. One example is E Sports. Refer to a student essay on Developments in media

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5. The Art game

Who plays games? What is the game industry? Look at this Chris Hecker writing

http://chrishecker.com/A_Dialogue_On_Depth

or, what do you think this would be like? http://spellirium.com/ 

here is Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, talking about games as Art media type="youtube" key="L7XZhwKTqjo" height="315" width="560"  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%; text-align: center;"> Still from the game JOURNEY 2012 Creative Director of JOURNEY JENOVA CHEN

See the trailer for the film http://usandthegameindustry.com It shows the build of stages of this game and developer discussion about some of the game features Here is a guide booklet. Talk to your teacher. Look up this developer

http://www.design3.com/training-center/engines-sdks/unity/coding/adding-interactivity

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Have you done an Audience Study on Games? Here is a read start.

Students undertaking Games Audience have played <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Far Cry. They started by identifying it as a First Person Shooter as a way to begin to ascertain a possible 'audience' for the game. //**Far Cry**// is a [|first-person shooter] [|video game] developed by [|Crytek] Studios and published by [|Ubisoft] on March 23, 2004, for [|Microsoft Windows]. //Far Cry// sold 730,000 units within four months of release. [|[1]] It received positive reviews upon release. The original game has since spawned [|a series of sequels and spin-off games].

Playing with Portal as a filmmaker. Look at this short film

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