IAT 210 Lecture 5: Gaming Communities
8 Aug 2018
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Gaming communities: game forums / social media, gamer"s opinion one of the big lies about gamers is that they"re all antisocial. In my experience, the flipside is true: gamers lover to socialize (through their preferred methods of communication do skew toward the digital). Co-creative practices: co-created media: both players and game designers are responsible for the cultural artefacts surrounding and including video games. Total conversions can result in a completely different game from the vanilla game: e. g. , developers of counter-strike (1999) were hired by valve software to turn it into a commercial product. It is not about mimicking real movies, but about creating your own using games / virtual characters and environments. Live streaming: people who live stream their video game play, either as a hobby or profession, are know as streamers, the practice became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as twitch and later,
