Who Said This?
"Games reflect the evolution of a society"
Who is Brian Sutton-Smith?
The Great Video Game Crash took place in this year
What is 1983?
The game that made a huge impact on action games from the mid-1900s forward
What is Doom?
The idea that you can empower players to generate new content to a game in order to keep the game fresh
What is user-generated content?
"In communicative play, we are not fighting, but playing at fighting"
Who is Gregory Bateson?
"Children playing games such as dress up, family, and other 'make believe' games helps them develop and eventually obtain unity of self"
Who is George Herbert Mead?
This "smash hit" game was developed by Atari 2600 in 1981
What is Pac-Man?
From the action paced video game "Tomb Raider", she was an icon in the era's girl power movements
Who is Lara Croft?
The platform in which the iPhone rapidly became a hotbed for mobile game development
What is the App Store?
"Game designers are the artists of our century"
Who is Henry Jenkins?
"In games, we can hope for nothing more than "family resemblances" where similarities overlap and criss-cross"
Who is Ludwig Wittgenstein?
Before Mario Bros. in 1993, Nintendo introduced Mario in 1991 through this game
What is Donkey Kong?
"Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers" from 1993 included this type of graphics
What is 2D graphics?
These companies have well-established "app stores" of their own
What are Microsoft and Sony?
"A culture's most popular game can reveal its core values"
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
"Games construct a 'magic circle' which separates the game from the outside world"
Who is Johan Huizinga?
In 1982, Zaxxon introduced this perspective known as 2.5D
What is Isometric Perspective?
Extending to large areas like net cafes, LAN is the acronym for:
What is Local Area Network?
The system created by Microsoft in which by using webcam technology, you are the controller
What is Kinect?
"Games can be categorized by competition, chance, imitation, and vertigo"
Who is Roger Caillois?
"Games exist within three frames which is referred to as the Classic Game Model"
Who is Jesper Juul?
This geometric figure is a closed-plane figure bounded by straight lines
What is a polygon?
Games like "Ultima Online" where characters are created by the players and includes a universe full of different adventures are categorized as:
What are Process-Oriented Games?
The game in which the player fires a bird one by one from a slingshot to strike all the pigs in sight
What is Angry Birds?
"Video games create aesthetic experiences that transform computer screens into realms of innovation"
Who is Henry Jenkins?