Skip to main content

Annotated Bibliography 2

Annotated Bibliography 2
Kosta Andreadis, “The Past, Present And Future Of Adventure Games.”  IGN,
March 1st2015. ign.com


The research for this article was done by Kosta Andreadis for the popular video game outlet IGN. In this article, the author talks about adventure games through the years and some of the changes and how malleable the genre is.  The author even forms a “round table” with developers who worked on the genre to have a discussion about adventure games. The author wrote the article to give readers a perspective and show opinions and views from people who have worked on these types of games. It was written on March 1st2016 and is based around Adventure games, a genre of games. 


Krista  Bonello Rutter Giappone, “Self Reflexivity and Humour in Adventure Games.” Game Studies, July 2015. gamestudies.org

Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone did the research for the article, for a site called Game Studies. The article is very long and is about the genre of Adventure Games and how this genre always contains metafictional humour and parodies. The article goes through many examples of games and contains the type of humour the article talked about. The article is very detailed and really goes into detail on its subject. The author wrote said an article to present the point above and to show examples, reasoning and its impact. It was written in July 2015 and is based on the genre of adventure games. 
The staff of VG24/7, “The Best 50 FPS Games Ever”, VG24/7, 23rdof November 2018.  www.vg247.com

The staff of the video game outlet VG24/7 did the research for the article. The article is as straightforward as the title suggests. The site has compiled 50 games that the staff deems to be of high quality and creates an ascending list.  The article gives its reasoning for the entries. The article isn’t as detailed but as has sufficient detail to explain its reasoning and its purpose is to show the reader the best of what the FPS genre has to offer. The article was written on 23rdof November 2018 and is based on the genre of First person shooter games.


Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, “The history of the first person shooter”, PCGamer 
October 20th2017. www.pcgamer.com

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell writes for the video game outlet, PCGamer and talks about the history of FPS games and how they have changed. Talking about early games in the genre and then talking about modern games and showing the change and the most notable and popular entries in the genre. The article is rather detailed and shows the reader the history of the genre. The article was written on October 20th2017 and is based on the genre of First person shooter games. 

Michael Hitchens,  “ A Survey of First-person shooters and their Avatars”, Game Studies December 2011, gamestudies.org (2)
Michael Hitchens writes for the site Game Studies where he writes a rather long article that talks about FPS games and their avatars in detail. The article details what FPS games are and how popular of a genre they are in gaming and the articles go through 566 FPS games and judge them on release, mechanics, setting and characteristics of avatars in the games. This shows the piece is rather detailed. It gives the reader a good look into the genre with detail and covers a lot of bases. The article was written in December 2011 and is based on the genre of First person games. 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Game Idea Research

A collection of different platformers I took inspiration from. I have decided on a game idea from the many I thought up of in last weeks blog post and the idea I have chosen is. A classic platformer, while yes some might say its overdone, I love these kinds of fun and easy to pick up and play games, they are simplistic but charming and fun. There will be 3 mechanics that I have thought about implementing into the game. The game will have a simple story, and charming yet again simple graphics and art style. The key word for this game is simple as I want to make it easy to pick up and play but also be fun and not a chore to play either. The story is about a lone wanderer who has to travel through and discover many places, along his way he has to traverse dangerous perils and collect some artefacts and defeat a villain who, if not stopped could be dangerous. 1. The health bar and a checkpoint system:  The first and most obvious mechanic in games will be the player's health ...
2 comments
Read more

Introduction by Nate

Hello, I'm Nathan, a second-year student at ITB. I'm 20 years old and from Cavan. This blog post is about me and hobbies, aspirations etc. If you're reading this, then I'm surprised you want to go through such torture. First of all, I really enjoyed CDM year 1. It was a great experience and felt it was fun and got to meet great people and do interesting things. I still can't get over the fact I'm in college or I even made it to the second year. Thought I would've had a mental breakdown at this point When doing the semester last year, I really enjoyed Storytelling and narrative. I find it fascinating to sit down and talk about films, I'm a bit of a movie buff so I did enjoy breaking them down and even tell a story or two. Honestly my biggest accomplishment last semester was actually getting through to second year and hell, even surviving it knowing me. My goals for this module is to plan out and hopefully make a small film for our group project as its...
7 comments
Read more

Multimedia Assignment: Prototype work

Recently I have started working on my prototype for my Game. I started it on Unity and im following some unity tutorials on how to make platformers, not to copy them but to see what I can do and point me in the right direction though. The prototype is going fine, progress is slow but im trying to get stuff done though, I can imagine only getting substantial work in Multimedia labs though. Also, another issue is finding the time to actually get some work done on the prototype as I have other assignments and having to commute up and down to college every day. Other than that, work is going along fine, working on previous unity tutorials has helped give me some experience in helping to create the game and the detail added to my GDD has helped too as it will give me some focus for making the game too.
Post a Comment
Read more