week 7

Federico DeJesus

1)      Who invented the first computer game on the PDP1?

 Steve Russell

2)      What was the name of the game?

 SpaceWar!
3) What was the name of Morton Helig's amusement device that let you smell, hear and see in 3D filmed experiences?
 Sensorama
4) What early 1970s movie does an arcade console machine of Spacewar appear?

5) What was the name of the man who developed the first TV tennis game?
 Ralph Baer
6) Who was the man whose company Atari commercialized the idea of the arcade computer tennis game?

 Nolan Bushnell

7) What was the name of this version of the game?
 pong
8) What are vector graphics?

 Whereas a

television screen or a modern computer monitor is a

“raster” display, consisting of hundreds of horizontal

arrays of dots that are drawn one at a time, so that a

diagonal line on screen always looks “stepped,” vector

screens enabled a perfectly straight line to be drawn

between any two points on the screen.

9) What types of games do vector graphics lend themselves to?
 They are wireframe 3d that made 3d polygon shape, it lend themselves to the Star Wars game and Tempest
10) When home computers were first made available, how did owners load games into them?
 They load games from floppy disc
11) What is the name of the 1985 film in which a young Matthew Broderick starts World War III with his home computer and modem?
 WarGames
12) From what sources did the designer of the Space Invaders aliens draw inspiration?
 Squids
13) What is the name given to the contemporary subculture of 8 bit music made with gameboys and other 80s game technology
 Chiptune
14) "Escape from Woomera" was a videogame which was used to draw attention to the plight of inmates at a remote detention center in desert town in what country?

Half life game mod
Australian

DAI227 week 6

 

QUESTIONS FOR DAI227 WEEK 6 LECTURE

1) Steve Mann describes his wearable computer invention as a form of cyborg blogging for one person (fill in the blank)
(see youtube link to Mann interview in web resource page)

2) Steve Mann's concept of opposing camera surveillance with "Sousveillance" is described as a form of “reflectionism”. What is meant by this? To mirror and confron bureaucratic organization. meaning to do the same thing to them as they are doing to the public.
(in ReadingsF)

3) In the section of "Sousveillance" called "Performance Two" Steve Mann describes how wearing his concealed device becomes more complex when used in what type of spaces?  It becomes more complex In public places such as a shopping mall,  it becomes semi complex as security would tend to be watching him. The more places he goes with camera the more often he is being watch.

4) The final paragraph sums up what Mann considers the benefits of "sousveillance" and "coveillance". What are they?  Sousveillance It is a conceptual framework of self-empowerment in opposition to modern technolog and surveillance through a series of performances.   Coveillance is the data collected with interactions in their daily lives.
(ReadingsF)

5) In William J Mitchell's 1995 book "City of Bits" in the chapter "Cyborg Citizens", he puts forth the idea that electronic organs as they shrink and become more part of the body will eventually resemble what types of familiar items? They will become more of clothing  - soft wearables that conform to the contours of our bodies and they have to be fitted for each person
(ReadingsF)

6) From the same book/chapter, list two of the things that a vehicle that 'knows where it is' might afford the driver & passengers. The GPS on the car that gets its information from you and can also be a tour guide as it can pull up information highlights of the area.   Artificial intelligence that knows where the car is heading and is able to drive itself
(ReadingsF)

7) Mitchell tells the story of Samuel Morse's first Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph message. What was it? "What hath God wrought?"
(ReadingsF)

8) Donna Harroway in "A Cyborg Manifesto" argues that women should take the "battle to the border". What does she say are the stakes in this border war?  territories of production, reproduction, and imagination.
(in ReadingsF)

9) Harroway posits the notion that:
"We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream"
What is this dream?
(in ReadingsF)

10) Many have argued that 'we are already cyborgs' as we use devices such as glasses to improve our vision, bikes to extend the mobility function of our legs/bodies etc, computers and networks to extend the nervous system etc. What do you think? Are we cyborgs?
to me my idea of what a cyborgs are is a combination between man and machine that is put together as one like how they would show it in movies and tv’s such as the Terminator, it’s a form of a man but it is completely robot.  A robot mind with a human flesh.

(one paragraph)

week 5

Student Name Federico DeJesus

Today’s Date March 2, 2010

Game Title Examined Asteroids

Year of Publication 1979

Game Publisher Atari Inc.

Game Developer  Atari Inc.

1 - What is the game genre (e.g. shoot-em-up, racing, sports, puzzle, MMORPG, ‘sandbox’, music sequence following game (e.g. DDR, guitar hero)

Space shoot-em-up

2 -What is the type of game ‘world’ or environment (e.g. flat environment, puzzle/maze space, 3D world?)
small black area that loops around when you get from one end of the screen to another

3 - What is the perspective taken by player (e.g first person, third person perspective, top down, isometric) in relation to main player controlled character.

Top view perspective

4 - What is the actual gameplay – what does the player have to do?

Shoot at rocks that blows up in to pieces which you have to destroy completely until there no more

5 - Is the gameplay intuitive? (i.e. is it easy to understand what to do without instructions?) describe.

Easy to play, with 4 directional buttons and on fire button to use

6 - Is the gameplay patterned (game does the same thing over & over) or is it random (happens differently every time?)

It has the same pattern over and over, after you cleared out all of the asteroids more will come

7 - What does the type of graphic approach used as well as the audio tell you about the limits of the technology at the time the game was published?

It was a very limited graphics as it only has black screen and white outline of the objects around you. It was one of the very first arcade game that came out at that time


8 - Describe your views about the game from the point of view of

1. ease of play, the controls are easy to use and understand and theres no other objective other than to destroy the asteroids

2. Enjoyability, the enjoyability is fair and would keep me entertained for a few hours but as I play it more and more it becomes repetitive

c) level of engagement/immersion,  not really much to go by on engagement or immersion as the screen is just black with white outlines

9 - Had you played this game prior to this time? If so, when?

I have play something similar to this but for me to play it in an actual arcade, I have never played it at all

10 - what does playing the game remind you of in terms of other games/media?

It reminds me of how limited technology was back then and reminds me of the history of games as I believed that the game I played is a part of gaming history.