#future of games

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Future of Video Game Development and its Demand.

Growing Popularity of Video Games The video game industry has experienced exponential growth in recent years, with millions of players engaging in various gaming platforms worldwide. This increased popularity has led to a surge in demand for skilled professionals in the field of video game development. Key Areas: Programming: 1) Advanced Programming and Coding Expertise To create immersive and…

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The Future Of Games

The Computer Games Journal has opened a call for papers exploring The Future Of Games

The videogames industry has always been driven forward by technology. Advances in computing, leads to new devices, new connectivity, creating new opportunities for play and experience.

While this was most obvious in the evolution of consoles (8, 16, 32-bit and ever onwards), the industry has also seen some major disruption in the form of ubiquitous broadband, mobile smart devices, open digital…

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What is the future of games and technology?

What is the future of games and technology?

Since the time of recent years, there are a number of changes inside modern technology. I don’t feel these are the basic rotations, indeed I would personally love to take into consideration all of them as adjustments with pre-existing technological know-how. You can visit the official Wikipedia page to know about the emerging technologies in upcoming future.

Consequently, in this we’ll be…

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Videogames on the "Border"

Wired has a review of the new Borderlands 2 hybrid shooter that dropped this week, and the reviewer asks: "Does Borderlands exist in a little niche all its own, alienating both shooter and RPG fans alike with foreign gameplay concepts? Or is it a gateway drug, allowing nerds of both stripes to experience the joys of the other side, and ultimately leading to experimentation with harder stuff?"

The conceit of both Borderlands games is that you run around shooting things as in your standard FPS, but in an open-ended world where you take quests from NPCs, collect tons of loot which you equip for the boost in stats, and gain experience -- all to level your character up, to make him more powerful, so he can shoot bigger and badder badasses. The author in the article wonders if the FPS and RPG worlds would have a tough time blending, or whether devotees of one gameworld could coexist in another.

I would suggest what Borderlands accomplishes isn't so much the bridging of disparate genres, but the expansion of both (or to be honest, the evolution of the FPS). The hidden-in-plain-sight secret of RPGs is that people play them because: yes, they like to explore, role-play, aquire shinies, level up, etc ... but they also like to kill things. It's just in an RPG, when you kill things, you're rewarded for it. Not just the accomplishment of the kill but with the dice-roll chances of finding nice treasure or with gold, and usually a smidge of experience. This isn't to suggest that FPS players are satisfied with more witless entertainment; just that the reward options are a lot more diverse in the RPG world.

So will a hybrid be a gateway game, bringing the two, seldom mixed classes together -- sort of like the end of a 90s high school movie where the jocks and the goths got together in the parking lot for a musical number?  Maybe, but as an RPG fan who used to play of lot FPS and grew tired of them, it's more of just the feeling of eating your cake and having it too.  Maybe that's the future of these games ... a mashup of the elements from all that work the best.