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Video Game Industry
The History of the Video Game Industry
Video Game Industry is one of the most upcoming industries nowadays. Speaking precisely it is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video game. Formally known as interactive entertainment industry, it provides entertainment to a large number of people and also provides a variety of job opportunities in various disciplines. Now it is supposed to the largest industry that has greater sales even more than the sales of Hollywood.
History
William Higinbotham can be regarded as the father of video games. He created the first recorded video game only. The game Tennis For Two was on an experimental basis and was never commercially released. This laid down the platform, which gradually formed into a hobby culture. With the growth of availability of personal computers the industry has grown manifolds. The industry also advanced with the advancement in the computing technology. The Video Game Industry has a momentum of its own and profit from this industry still drives the technology which is further used by other industries. The Video Game Industry is very volatile and as there are a lot of third party game developers cropping up and getting out of business very quickly, the industry has grown matured still remaining volatile.
Video games like any other industry also has certain practice that characterizes other entertainment industries also. However lately there has been a lot of hue and cry that the video game industry is underestimating the developing talents and is poorly treating them. This has led to the development of independent developers because of which the video game industry has not gained any definite shape. However the practices followed within the industry are: -
1. Breakaways One of the major practices that are being followed in the video game industry is the custom of breakaways. As the video game industry doesn't pay any attention to the budding game developers and treat them very badly so there are a large number of breakaways in this industry. One of the brightest examples in this regard is the independent video game developer Activision.
2. Economic problems There are a lot of economic problems in this industry as there are a lot of publisher and developer problems. The problem is regarding the royalties. Actually a particular amount of the royalty should go to the developer and the rest should go to the publisher. But the trend is that the publishers but the development studio itself so there is no option of dividing the royalty itself.
Apart from these practices there are some other practices such as the problem regarding the creative control of the video games. However the industry has managed to survive and flourish along with these.
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are people becoming acclimatised to horrific levels of sadistic cruelty from games and warfare consciousness?
all of so much of human entertainment for children is fighting and war - or inane romantic comedies. the comic book, movie and video game industry appears to be training billions of children world wide to get used to a highly traumatic stressful form of thinking and feeling, which bleeds into their relationships with each other.
open heartedness, creativity and real intelligence can only thrive in a relaxed and experimental environment in symbiosis with nature.
imperialism and war, regardless of what it does to the combatants, always leaves environmental devastation and resource abuse in it's path. psychopath culture thrives under the cover of war, providing every excuse for any moments brutish whim.
similarly, an information war, global media and education institutions basted with lies and propaganda, creates psychotic disorientations and ultimately catatonic nervous breakdowns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basting_(cooking)
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To people in the video game industry: What do you at for a potential employee?
First off, I want to work in making video games, I love them to pieces. I've gotten the occasional bad grades for them, I've had lack of sleep from the, and have gotten a damaged nerve in my right thumb because of them.
I'm just curious from any people within the video game industry as to what they look for in a potential employee. Such as:
Education- What schools look well on an employee It sounds kinda rasicts I know, but is there any specific shool that someone has to be from to look well...Or is it all just skill? How you apply what you learned to what you're doing? Which I think it's true...I mean, there are some people out there who graduate with "great" majors, but then they don't do nothing. Either not looking for work, or not trying hard enough to find it. In other words, not using the knowledge they gained. I'm sorry, that's just my opinion, moving on.
Skills- What should someone know when going into the game industry. For example, I want to be a Video Game Designer. They do (from what my High School Advantage teacher at Broadview says, and he's been in the industry 15 yrs) pretty much a bit of everything. Programming, art, animation, etc. What I was getting at is, what if you're really good at art, but kinda lack skills in programming? Do you not hire them or overlook it and assign them to something. Because, large companies usually have 5 designers working on different things.
Also, and this is obvious, what do you look for in a person.
Well, please and thank you's.
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Do you need advanced mathematics to be a programmer?
I'll be transferring from my university and entering community college next September. For the past few years I've wanted to become an English teacher considering I'm an excellent writer in the language, however I seem to have overlooked the fact that there are literally no jobs available for teachers of any kind in Canada, especially New Brunswick where I live. But I was actually considering my options again, and I found that one of my favourite game developers Bioware is Canadian, and working in the video game industry was always my dream since I was small, but I had confidence issues and I figured they were either all in Japan, US, or the UK. I'm planning on moving to Edmonton and as luck would have it, Bioware has a studio there. I'm not sure which part of game development I want to do though. I've grown an interest in wanting to learn programming, but I heard you need REALLY good math skills in order to do it. However, I've ALWAYS been accommodated and horrible in the subject and in grade 12 I managed to pass the lowest level of math (because I failed F&R) with a bare minimum pass of 60%. It just doesn't click with my brain, so I was wondering, do I really need to know that much math to do programming? And if so, would a person like me be capable of it?
Thanks in advance.
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