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Assignment #5 – PerformanceKey Concepts:· Develop an understanding between the simulations and games· Explore gaming as a performance· Analyze ESports and its effect on gaming culture Part 1: SimulationSimulations: usual connotation of real-world representation – flight simulator, history simulationHow are these games simulations? What do they simulate?Tetris/PegglePutting blocks together in real lifeWipeoutRe-enacting the show wipout and real life falling and the obstacle course.Farmville/SimCityReenacting living in a city or farm or making a cityHarvest MoonSimulates farming and everyday lifeGTASimulates real life driving or car racingCivilizationTaking to people and being social.What differentiates (video) games from:Text editing software (virtual world sims, make-believe and interactive)A text editing software is just text and video games usually have videos and characters and a story line whereas a text editing software has none of those.A visual physics simulator (interactive, make-believe)This is usually used for learning and demonstrating real life things. Such as a surgery or different tire treads. Games have a story line with characters and usually aren't simulating an experiment. (Surgeon Simulator for PC is kind of an except although the surgeries are meant for having fun and not learning how to do a real surgery.Economic/weather predictions These are real life and not used just for fun and they aren't controlled by another person in their room on a friday night while they are eating chips. Part 2: PerformanceHow are games a performance?The character is kind of putting on a show and jumping around and the player is doing it. Kind of like jousting back in the day.Who are the performers?The characters in the game and the gamer.What makes a good game to watch as a spectator?A good performance, lots of action, maybe it would be funny or maybe a good commentary. They player does interesting stuff and they do it well. Or they suck at it and its really funny to watch. An example of this would be on youtube and all of the you tubers that play video games and upload their commentary. Compare theatre vs. gamesSimilarities?It is both a performance with characters and actions and it is a dramatic scene.Differences?The characters and actions arent being controlled by another person and theatre isn't usually on video in an animated game.Watch this video and describe your thoughts on both what happens and the reaction from fans.Well i don’t play street fighter and i’ve never played it so i don’t really know the characters or why this was such a big deal but i thought it was really funny and cool with their reaction and it was cool that he blocked all of the other guys kicksPart 3: E SportsAnswer the following questions after viewing the following: of ESports Electronic Sports (esports) in your own wordsIt is a group for organized video game competitionsWhich genres of games are most popular in esports? Why these genres?real-time strategy, fighting, first-person shooter, and multiplayer online battle arena.How have esports changed over the decades? Explain its relevance in each decade:1970sThe first esports competition took place at Stanford University for the game Spacewar. The winner got a year’s subscription for Rolling Stone.1980sThere was a Space Invaders Championship held by atari in 1980 and it was the earliest large scale game competition with more than 10 000 participants in the usa. Esports got lots of publicity in this time, through magazines and newspapers.1990sInternet team games like Netrek were created and there was a few world championships in the united states such as the Nintendo World Championships. Games included: NBA Jam and Virtua Racing.2000sThe World Cyber Games, Intel Extreme Masters, and Major League Gaming took place in this time period and these tournaments skyrocketed. In September 2006 FUN Technologies Worldwide Webames Championship there was at least 71 contestants competing in casual games for a grand prize of $1 million. TV coverage also skyrocketed with competitions featuring Starcraft and Warcraft III.2010sThere was about 260 tournaments in 2010 Why have esports grown so much in recent years? What changed?A lot more games were created and gaming became easier and more popular so more competitions would be necessary.Name 3 of the different major esports tournaments and where they are heldWorld Cyber Games: November 28-December 1, 2013, in Kunshan ChinaNintendo World Championship: 1994 in San Diego, CAWorld Series of Video Games: 2007, Louisville, Kentucky.Go to , choose 1 of the top 10 greatest players of esports history and describe who they were, what game(s) they played and what they are best known for.Patrik Lindberg (f0rest), He is 25 now and he comes from sweden. His biggest success was in 2009 when his team went against team Fnatic where he did a perfect play and his team gothighest-earning in Counter-Strike history. He played Counter-StrikeHow has the media had an impact on esports? How is the media involved?The media probable puts both pressure and fame on esports. Pressure to hold events or pressure to be the best and the media is always judging. The media also probably makes esports a lot of money because fans want to come watch and they will pay anything for it and the more popular it is then the more people come and watch and pay.What might be the future of esports? Give your own opinion and explain.I think the future of exports will be huge. As games become way more popular and way more interactive exports will become a really huge thing that a lot of people will really want to go to and will pay a lot for. There is a lot of gamers and a lot of them would want to compete in esports. I think it will become very popular soon and it will become something like a famous sports channel.

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