Lecture - Week Ten

Unfortunately I had to work today, so I missed the lecture this morning. I've read through the lecture notes so I will just summarise the main points I got from it.






Video games studies include:


- Arcade Games
- Consoles
- Computer (PC) Games
- Mobile Games
- MUDs
- MMOGs



Sub-genres of games include:



- First Person Shooters
- Adventure/Strategy Games
- Puzzle Games
- Life-simulation Games

Study of videogames is done in two ways:


Narratology

Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. Wikipedia


Ludology

(from ludus, the Latin word for "game"), to refer to the yet non-existent "discipline that studies game and play activities". Ludology



Ummmm craziest fact of the day... 41ST PC GAMERS ARE FEMALE. Woah!!!



Well I'm no game fiend, but I do really rate free cell.