Sexual gender and racial discrimination in game

    The naked image generally in European art , the artists ,followers and collectors are usually male. The object of their desire is the naked female form. This unequal relationship is deeply rooted in our culture, that constitutes a large number of women conforming to this role. They look at their feminine qualities so to appease men. Under the male dominated culture this phenomenon also extends to the field of race and in the game this is still very obvious.

Popcap

Popcap
Biography
    Pop Cap Games is a developer and publisher of casual games. It is established in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, headquartered in the United States, Seattle, and global R & D base set up in Shanghai, San Francisco and Vancouver. The famous game of Pop Cap is Bejeweled. Bejeweled is a casual game to eliminate gems. This game won the CGW Hall of Fame in 2002. Pop Cap continues to create different game styles and develop new markets. Their goal is to let all ages to feel happy from game!
    In July 2011, Pop Cap was acquired by EA.
http://www.popcap.com/

Maxis

Maxis
Biography
    Maxis software is a video game company founded in the United States. Maxis were acquired by Electronic Arts in 1998. Now it is under the EA Company. Maxis is called “The father of simulation”, it have some famous game such as The Sims series, Sim City series and Spore.
    In the year of 1987, Jeff Braun and Will Wright created a new type of game. Two years later, Maixs became the top of simulation games. The sales of the series of The Sims reached nearly 10 million sets. It is the oldest and most dazzling star in the history of game. After that, they named all of their games “Sim”. They are called the series of Sims.

Jordan Grimmer and Ben Thompson

Jordan Grimmer
Biography:
    Jordan Grimmer is a 2D Artist at Kobojo on Dudee, graduate from University of Teesside.
Websize:
Personal homepage: http://www.jordangrimmer.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordan_grimmer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jordangrimmerart
Kobojo: http://www.kobojo.com/

Professional

Lead Artist:

    The Lead Artist is a principal person responsible for a team in an art section or project. In game art and design the development is controlled by the lead artist, but the whole art team will be made up by artists who will be chosen for their skills according to the requirements of the project. Artists work together on a main feature under the guidance of the lead artist to become a efficient and professional team.

    The Lead artist need to be able to work with others on a game project, include planning, painting, scenes design, characters design, props design, animation design, special effects and the whole production work. They will guide their team through the game and delegating tasks on future work. Lead artist need to recruit new members according to the requirements of the projects, and then quickly integrate them into the team. They need to know how to communicate ideas and manage the team, assign jobs to each member of team, knowing their strong and weak points.

    Behind each game there is a game development team. The team can be divided into many sections, the game designer, game artist and special effects artist etc. Primarily the game should be designed by lead artist, and other game artists need to do auxiliary work. The book of “Post Mortems “from Game Developer makes me know how important the team is, for example in the processing of Age of Empires and Halo.

    A lot of games copy the same style, but a good game will have a unique style. The style refers to the scene environment, role models, skills, items, etc. Players view the world of game through the game environment. They create lovely models for players, and skill items allow players to have more choice. Lead artist is the designer of these features. Unique game style design is one of the keys to becoming a lead master and makes the game popular.

 

Three Kingdoms and games.

Origins Of Romance of Three Kingdoms:

    The Three Kingdoms was a period in Chinese history near to one thousand years ago. It is believed to nave begin from the first year of Jianan which is the last title of Han emoperor's reign (AD 220). The period contain  kingdoms such as Wei, Shu and Wu. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the kingdom became over populated and the economy had been seriously damaged because of constant war. So the three kingdoms all attach great importance to economic development. And with the development of science and technology in war, the Three Kingdoms become a very splendid era. Talents and heroes were constantly emerging in the Three kingdoms, they all receives great respect from the people.
    In ancient times most scholars become government officials. Chen Shou also was an offical in Shu. Towards the end of Three Kingdoms, he joined Jin and then started writting the book named “History of the Three Kingdoms”. But the most popular book of Three Kingdoms is a couplet novel named "The Romance of Three Kingdoms". People used this novel as a basis in Tang poetry and Song Ci. In Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, the story of Three Kingdoms is more familiar to people. There are always some stories about Three Kingdoms in folk art, Dynasty and plays.
    Luo Guanzhong takes about the history of the Three Kingdoms, and collected folk stories, poems, and literary works  since ancient times. Finally Luo wrote a historical novel named "The Romance of Three Kingdoms".This book is also known as one of China's four famous novels. His influence reached Asia first and then reached all over the world. As a novel, it also has a lot of fictional plot. ( For example three Heroes Combating Lü Bu, force five passes and slay six captains and so on in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms"). Even to this day, These stories are still well known and is widely used in TV plays, movies and video games.

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Literary development of story：

-One of China's four classic：
    "The Romance of Three Kingdoms"'full name is "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms' history". It is an ancient chinese historical novel. The author make a combination of fantasy and reality. The book is deeply popular in folklore . People are full of praise for this book even in today.

Main versions of "The Romance of Three Kingdoms":
1. Jiajing of Ming "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms' history"
2. Biography in Ming "Xinke Anjian Quanxiang Piping History of the Three Kingdoms"
3. Li Zhuowu in Ming "Li Zhuowu Xiansheng Piping History of the Three Kingdoms"
4. Li Liweng in Qing "Li Liweng Piyue History of the Three Kingdoms"
5. Mao Zonggang in Qing "The first of four masterpieces "

    It is generally believed that the author of "The Romance of Three Kingdoms" is Luo Guanzhong. But there is also a view that this book is written with his teacher Shi Naian. But there is no clear evidence to prove this view.

    As an example, these were mentioned on WIKI. Besides the famous Peach Garden Oath, many Chinese proverbs in use today are derived from the novel. For e.g 'Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives.'. This sentence interpretation on Wiki is meaning 'Equivalent to speak of the devil. Describes the situation of a person appearing precisely when being spoken about.' Obviously, there are many Cultural impacts of Three Kingdoms are still in use today. It reminds me of a sentence that someone told me like 'history always repeats itself by different ways'.
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Identify the first Digital Game Character

     Pac-man is a classic in arcade game history. The game was designed by Toru Iwatani of the NAMCO company and issued by the Midway Games  in 1980. When Toru Iwatani start to eat his pacs, there's 2 parts slices short of a full pie, the idea for one of the greatest arcade games was born.  Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. This image is used as the company's mascot and logo, It's still in use today. The aim of Pac-Man is controlling Pac-Man through a maze to eating pac-dots (also called pellets or just dots). Only when all pac-dots are eaten, the stage will clear, and Pac-Man could be taken to the next stage. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) are running in the maze,and their aim is catching Pac-Man. If an enemy touches Pac-Man, Pac-Man will lost a life and Pac-Man will die after be touched three times.

 

     Near the corners of the maze, there are four larger dots, these flashing dots are known as more powerful pellets, they could provide Pac-Man some temporary abilities to beat the enemies. The enemies change there colours to deep blue, then they will reverse direction and their speed of movement will be slower. After an enemy is beaten, its eyes will return to the center where it is reborn in its normal color. Blue enemies flash white to signal that they are about to become dangerous again and the length of time for which the enemies remain vulnerable varies from one stage to the next, generally becoming shorter as the game progresses. In later stages, the enemies go straight to flashing.

 

     In May 21–23, 2010, around Ut 15, Google changed the Google logo on its homepage to a Google Doodle of a fully playable version of Pac-Man in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the game's release. This game is not produced using the popular program like Flash, Sliverlight and so on, instead use Html, Css and JavaScript, And used Flash only when making sound effects. When we double click the botton of Insert Coin, There will appear doubles mode. Each level is the same layout. Otherwise known as the "split-screen level" or a "kill screen", the Map 256 Glitch is, when you clear 255 stages to the 256 stage, the right side of game screen turns into a jumbled mess of  insignificant numbers and letters. It make the game play ti be impossible.It also occurs in the Pac-Man Google Doodle as an Easter Egg. There is even a game based on this glitch. The game remained online for 48 hours before the Google doodle reverted to the usual logo. Because of the great acclaim, Google made the homepage of this to be a permanent version. 

      For the Fool's day of April 1, 2015, users can play Pac-Man game in Google Maps.

【2015.10.29】Seven Stories.

Memu:

1.Overcoming Evil/Monster

Super Mario Brothers / Metal Gear Solid V ：The Phantom Pain / Mega Man / Devil May Cry

2.Rags to riches:The Sims series / Metal Gear Solid

3.The Quest:

Super Mario Brothers / Alice: Madness Returns / Mega Man / Final Fantasy / Devil May Cry

4.Voyage and Return:Metal Gear Solid / The Sims series

5. Comedy:Neighbours From Hell

6.Tragedies:The Binding of Isaac / Mega Man

7.Rebirth:Metal Max

【18.10.2015】Research of 'Alice: Madness Returns'.



     I watched a game commentary with interest .The game is called 'Alice: madness returns'. I think the sense of this game is very interesting. In particular, I feel there are a lot of artistic elements. I think this is a good game.

 



    The art style is very abundant in this game. The main atmosphere is very strange, it combined gothic art, steampunk style, story elements, 2D and 3D modality etc. I think the art layout is brilliant.

【03.10.2015】History and development of representation in games.

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    The cathode ray tube amusement device is the first one which is known as an interactive electronic game to use cathode ray tube named CRT for short. This game is constructed by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann from analog electronics in 1947. And it is a game never published, but it was also patented in 1948.
Entertainment is a device that records and controls the quality of an electronic signal. The intensity of the electronic signal generated by the entertainment device is controlled by a knob affecting the beam path of the CRT. The device uses purely analog electronic devices, not using any memory devices, digital computers, or programming.
    The CRT beam appears a bit of a trace of a parabolic path through the screen when the switch is activated. The spot represents a projectile's trajectory, which is dispersed on its tracks, representing the shell, like a time fuze.
    On the screen there are several coverage targets, such as the object, the player will control the knob of the direct spot of the motion trajectory with the shell of the delay, in order to hit a target superimposed with the shell burst deadline.


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    OXO was a computer game developed by Alexander S. Douglas in 1952 for the EDSAC computer, which simulates a game of Noughts and crosses, also sometimes called Tic-tac-toe. Douglas game programming as a part of his doctoral thesis on the University of Cambridge. OXO is the first game of the game known as the video monitor.
    In this game, the player will use the input and output of the rotary telephone controller, the computer is shown on the 35 x 16 dot matrix of the cathode ray tube. Every game is a match for an artificial intelligence.

【02.10.2015】 Contextual Studies

    Here is a grid showing Caillois’ classification of games. I put 12 games I admire most into the grid according to the classification.



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