CS250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Model Alliance, Serious Game, Fast Fashion
13 Jun 2018
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Midterm feb 14 - review on feb 7
Feb 5th class held at careers centre - job search workshop
Last class… watched the true cost - on fast fashion
● Our job in a critical perspective is to ask what happens behind the scenes
● Questions on my ls → eg squeeze on suppliers to meet time deadlines and price
demands of big brands
● Slow fashion: “It is premised upon an ethic of care - a concern regarding the materials
that go into the products we consume, the longevity of products, and the lives of those
connected to their production.”
● The model alliance - advocacy for models, policy change
NEW
The Video Games Industry
● Triple A sector within industry - higher price console based vid games (focus of todays
lec)
The Video Games Industry in Canada
● Vancouver teens made 1 of Canada’s first video games - sold to EA
● Several of the best selling vid games (assassins creed) were made in Canada
● Canada was 3rd largest gaming industry employer (after US and japan)
● Last year revenues 100 bill
● Players / producers / places → illustrate the logic but also tensions in this creative
economy framework
● Creative economy = contemporary policy oriented discourse, can be rougly broken down
into creative industries/class/city (reviewed many times)
● Call of duty MW3 made more revenue than Avatar - videogames rival and leapfrog
hollywood box offices
● Historically the biggest money maker has been the console
○ Perpetual upgrade economics - upgrade after a few years
● Canada poll - almost 60% had played video game in past month - avg age of gamer is
33 years old - male bias diminishing but not disappeared (52-48%)
● Games do not just compete with other media, but fuse with them
● Serious games - games designed to serve govt/corp/activist objectives → eg educate on
climate change
● ‘Triple - A subsector’ games industry made up of subsectors
○ Console manufacturing
■ Big brands - create hardware usually sold at loss to build marketshare -
extract profits from software designed for platform
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Document Summary
Midterm feb 14 - review on feb 7. Feb 5th class held at careers centre - job search workshop. Last class watched the true cost - on fast fashion. Our job in a critical perspective is to ask what happens behind the scenes. Questions on my ls eg squeeze on suppliers to meet time deadlines and price demands of big brands. Slow fashion: it is premised upon an ethic of care - a concern regarding the materials that go into the products we consume, the longevity of products, and the lives of those connected to their production. The model alliance - advocacy for models, policy change. Triple a sector within industry - higher price console based vid games (focus of todays lec) Vancouver teens made 1 of canada"s first video games - sold to ea. Several of the best selling vid games (assassins creed) were made in canada. Canada was 3rd largest gaming industry employer (after us and japan)
