Video Games: Industry and Culture

Details of task: Write a short essay that answers one of the questions below. However, you must write your essay in Twine, an interactive story-telling tool. The result can be very similar to a traditional essay or quite different; you will be assessed partly on how creative you are in using this format, so take some time to experiment and consider how best to present your ideas.

1.How much do you think the experience of playing video games will change over the next twenty years? While it’s good to use your imagination when formulating an answer to this question, you must also draw on the historical development of video gaming and existing/emerging technologies, industrial trends and business models to provide support for your claims.
‘Video games are a unique media form with their own distinct character. As a result, trying to analyse them using theories and ideas developed for other media forms is a waste of time.’ Do you agree? To answer this question effectively, you will first need to make a case for why video games are/are not unique, and give examples of the applicability/non-applicability of approaches used to analyse other media forms.
Johan Huizinga famously described games as taking place inside a ‘magic circle’, where everyday rules and conventions are suspended. To what degree does this magic circle still hold? In your answer you may want to give particular attention to the economics of modern gaming and the process of gamification.

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