Computer Game Studies: Historical Development, Cultural Impact, and Narrative Analysis

Computer Game Studies

Contents
Part 1................................................................................................................................................2
LO1 Understand the historical development of computer games...................................................2
LO2 Understand the cultural context and impact of computer games............................................5
LO3 Be able to analyse the lucid and narrative aspects of computer games...................................7
Part 2..............................................................................................................................................11
Part 3..............................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15
List of Figures
Figure 1 FIFA 95 Game Interface...................................................................................................2
Figure 2 FIFA 17 Game Interface...................................................................................................3
Figure 3 X-Man Game.....................................................................................................................7
Figure 4 Mission 1 of the game X-Man...........................................................................................8
Figure 5 Alkali Lake Mission..........................................................................................................9
Figure 6 Last mission of the game.................................................................................................10
Figure 7 Assassin Creed Game Character.....................................................................................11
Figure 8 Character of Mark of Ninja game...................................................................................11
Figure 9 Witcher game character...................................................................................................12
Figure 10 Low Poly Character.......................................................................................................13
Figure 11 High Poly Character......................................................................................................14
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Part 1
LO1 Understand the historical development of computer games
Historical Development of Video Games:
Video games are the electronic generated games in addition to the user interface and to present
visual output on the screen. Video games are very vast and popular at present time. Let us
consider the case of the game FIFA.
As the world most popular video game, FIFA is related to series of football association games
released under Electronic Arts with the label of EA sports. The first series of this game is
announced in late 1993 by officially approved license from the association of FIFA. The first
edition of this series is FIFA 95 in which there is GUI is not that good and lacking with many
features like not able to create a game with any club team. Since then every series of this game is
coming up with more and better GPU, hardware, features, and interface (Johnstone, 2017).
Figure 1 FIFA 95 Game Interface
Source: (Dowling, n.d.)
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Figure 2 FIFA 17 Game Interface
Source: (Playstation, 2017)
Since then and till now, there is huge change occurred due to the increasing number of the
sources, controllers, hardware, cost, devices, technologies, the rapid increase in the size of the
company and specifications of the computer systems. This is also due to increasing CPU power
and better GUI. There is the huge change and improvement occurred in the newer version from
an older version. So from the older version of FIFA 95 to FIFA 17, there is a lot of
improvements occurred. This is due to many reasons. Let us discuss some aspects why it is
improved that much and due to what cause.
 Improvement in the Hardware: Hardware plays a very important role in the gaming world.
The advanced configurations of the hardware will allow better performance of the games.
Older versions had very less configured system GPU and power system CPU. As graphics
play a very vital role in relation to video games. Large configurations of the graphics are
available at very low cost.
 More New Devices: It is also the very important aspects of growth in these games. As in
present time, these games can be played on various devices like computers, mobiles phones,
and tablets. As they are responsive enough with advanced graphics for almost every device.
Also, they provide multiple devices controllers to play like remote controller, joystick,
keyboard, and mouse.
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