This document discusses the evolution of games from early genres to future virtual worlds. It summarizes key game genres including action, fighting, role-playing, and sports. The future of gaming may involve stimulating all five senses through sights, sounds, and potentially smells. Virtual worlds allow people to interact in simulated environments and buy virtual goods. Some gamers become highly engaged by joining guilds, earning money through game assets, or researching games. Sandbox games offer open-ended, goal-less exploration. While games provide enjoyment and learning, excessive play can lead to addiction symptoms like depression and withdrawal from social activities.

1. Evolution of games
Presented By:- Arka Ganguly
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2. Game genres
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Action
Fighting
Role-playing
Massively multi-player onlin
Platform game
Simulations game
(flight, military, space, city-b
Sports (racing)
Strategy
Educational
Music

3. Future of Gaming:
Characteristics of the Game Platform
of the Future
Arouse all 5 senses
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Game developers will eventually capitalize on
hear, taste and smell
pain, sight,
For example:
 Instead of hearing the sound of an explosion and seeing its
effects, a future gamer will feel the shock waves as well
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Digiscents
developed iSmell device:
utilize the sense of smell in future games

4. Virtual Worlds
Definition:
Computer moderated, persistent environments through
and with which multiple individuals may interact
simultaneously
• Often an illusion that encourages the acceptance of
familiar concepts such as place, inhabitant and object
• Allow characters within virtual worlds to buy and sell
virtual goods
• More people accept an illusion, the more real it becomes
Pitfalls of Virtual Property

5. Extremes that Gamers Go
To: The Common Ones
• Guilds
• Online Auctions
– EBay
– IGE.com
• Earning through gaming
– By selling their virtual game assets
• Characters
• Magical swords and shields
– E.g. Maple story
• Websites/blogs/fan art sites
• Online game forums
• Purchasing Game Books
• Researching game tips/hacks
• Gold Farming

6. Hall of Fame:
Top 5 Most Addictive Games
• 5: Mildly Addictive
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• 4: Highly Addictive
Sims
• 3: Scarily Addictive
Championship Manager 2006
• 2: Seriously Addictive
Counter Strike
• 1: Life-Threateningly Addictive
World of Warcraft

7. Usefulness of Gaming
According to Janet H. Murray of M.I.T. , “Games, like active learning
and education, teach.”
People learn more and retain that knowledge longer over time.
Makes lessons interesting.
Build a bigger social network.
Use of simulations to help us model activities and interactions.

8. What is Sandbox Game?
It is open-ended
– Does not have a specific, predefined ending, or set of endings.
It is a mode of game play within a game that is more often played in
a goal-directed manner.
Users are free to explore.
Users can play in whichever way they like.
Features of Sandbox Game:
Never Ending game play.
Freedom to experiment.
Non-linear or nonexistence plot.

9. Some Examples of Sandbox
games
• The Sims
• SimCity
• Sleeping Dogs
• Civilization series
• Grand Theft Auto series

10. Why people play game?
• Enjoyable, stimulating and provides decent
entertainment
• Games are powerful with their stories, action,
graphical features, sound effects and
originality
• Escape from stress and gruesome reality
• Do the impossible
• Do things beyond their imagination
• New level of excitement when people
compete with each other

11. Why are games addictive?
• Games are not addictive, it’s the gamers
who gets addicted (just like drugs)
• People play too much, therefore they get
addicted
• People cannot get out of the need to play
• People cannot control themselves,
incontrollable craving

12. Symptoms of Addiction
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Depression
Nervousness
Fear
Panic
Agitation
Unwillingness to
interact

13. Real Case Scenario :
• Benjamin Toh – active in school until
addiction to “Maple Story”.
• Spent hours playing, neglected studies, had
to stay back in Sec 3.
• Rushed home from school to lock himself in
room to play until midnight.
• Over 10 hrs a day, taking only toilet or food
breaks

14. disadvantages:
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Withdrawal from social activity
Not doing homework / worsening grades
Restlessness when away from computer
Irritability & annoyance when unable to
play
- Errant behavior (e.g. Lying, truancy)
- Playing longer than intended (>30
hours/week)

15. Health Consequences:
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Auditory hallucinations
Wrist pain
Neck pain
Elbow pain
Obesity (due to lack of exercise)
Photo-sensitive epilepsy
Increased risk of acute
lymphoblastic leukemia
Enuresis
Encopresis
Tenosynovitis
Peripheral neuropathy

16. But instead of those draw
backs WE LOVE GAMES
and always will .
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