...Careers in video game development Work for play: V ideo games aren’t only for play; they also provide work. The workers, known as game developers, make a living creating the games you enjoy playing. Making video games is a serious—and big—business. According to the Entertainment Software Association, in 2009, the video game industry had sales in excess of $10 billion and employed more than 32,000 people in 34 states. Creating these games is complex and requires the collaboration of many developers, who perform a variety of tasks, from production to programming. They work for both small and large game studios to create games that can be played on many different devices, including console systems, computers, and cell phones. This article covers career options in video game development. The first section provides an overview of the development process. The second section describes four groups of video game occupations: designers, programmers, artists, and others. The third section covers the skills and training workers need for these jobs. The fourth section discusses the benefits and challenges of working in the video game industry. And the fifth section provides jobseeking tips for a career in video game development. Suggested resources for additional information are at the end of the article. Full-featured games, such as those made for consoles, have more complex programming and, therefore, take longer to develop— usually between 18 and 30 months. By comparison, most...
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...Video Game Design Career Essay I was a kid, maybe six or seven years old when I first played one of those small portable video games, the famous Nintendo gameboy advance. Since that day I became a lover of video games, dreaming of becoming a creator or game designer, as it is called today. As I play more games, more grew in me the dream not only to play the game, but Also to create them; in fact I have come up with many nice thoughts about video games from what I have played and I believed one day my dream will come true when I will create my own game, hoping such game will become a famous game. After doing researches, I found that in fact, the video game industry it is a huge business managing billions of dollars, and that in order to create video game from just the game’s idea until the end step, a lot of different People with different educational background and training is needed. So, the questions now are, what part of this long chain of different positions I am interested for? What position within this multi-billions of industry will give me a major satisfaction? What position will give me the better income? Are universities or colleges in Puerto Rico offering courses for all these positions? Well, I think that I will only find answers researching more about the video games industry and those college in Puerto Rico teaching related course of study. I hope the next paragraphs will provide more information that helps to find answers about doubts in this field of video...
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...Shigeru Miyamoto was born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As a child, he was heavily interested in drawing, and, later on, he attended Kanazawa College of Art to become a manga artist. He graduated with a degree in industrial design, but he was unable to find any work. During this time, his father had a friend who was acquainted with the President of Nintendo, and they were able to set up an interview for Miyamoto. He got the job, and he began working at Nintendo in 1977 as the company's first artist. After putting in a lot of hard work at his job, Nintendo's President eventually moved Miyamoto to the planning and development departments. Years later, Miyamoto went on to create some of Nintendo's most successful video games, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey...
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...In the article “Explicit Lyrics Encourage Teen Sex” by author Sarah Knoploh she address how todays music has become progressively more foul and sex oriented. She reference’s famous artists such as Drake, Lady Gaga, and Jeremiah and some of their popular songs that have been on the top charts and breaks them down as to how these artist are explicit. Knoploh takes a song from each artist and breaks down the lyrics for example she takes Drakes song “Best I Ever Had” and looks at how many times it says the F word or the N word. She then explains that by Drake using these words he is encouraging are youth to cuss and use fowl language more frequently in their everyday life. Knoploh also shows that not only are these songs shaping are youth in the ways of drug, sex and foul language but it is also that the music videos are not helping this at all. She talks about how lady Gaga’s “Love Game” music video includes her making out with other girls along with the explicit lyrics. The “Love Game” music video was so explicit that Australia has banned it from their country because it was too hard for them to censor. At the end of the article Knoploh address the fact that not all music videos and songs are...
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...Stylized character concept art is an integral part of making video games and animated feature films that contain 3D forms. This may include characters and assets for the ambient in animated films or video games. They give the modeling team ideas on how it is supposed to look, and it provides them with ideas on realizing the drawing into the tree-dimensional environment. Many animation and game studio have their own concept artists. One of our favorite games that we loved playing growing up were, at the beginning were mere rough sketches but later on they were processed as illustrated concepts and later on realized in 3D form. My main interest will be providing more practical knowledge, so that is why I want to apply for a Bachelor of Arts degree. I think of that for several reasons. For one, I consider designing stylized characters is important part of my life. Each art design I make has a deep connection with my personality. I feel that each character design has its own story to tell. However, the competition is so intense that it gets quite overwhelming and sometimes depressing. There is massive stampede of talented people out there who have big aspiration at popular companies such as Dreamworks and Pixar. Nonetheless, there are people who produce high quality drawings and work for a low budget in smaller companies around the world. Concept art has taken off as a field of its own. Online you will find websites forums, and blogs dedicated to the aspect of visual development...
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...Brainwashed and Not Understanding Gustavis Martin Liberty U APA Everyday our children are becoming more and more exposed to negativity as a result of the media and electronic devices. Most parents do not realize the danger our kids are placed in from this mass exposure. In today’s society our children can be brainwashed excessive time listening to certain music on the radio, watching certain television programs and playing some types of video games and other social media outlets by wanting to emulate what they see, read and hear. Much of this is leading to hazards to their mental and physical health. It is really an epidemic which can only be stopped by parents and other responsible adults gaining an understanding of the technology and devices our kids use, and learning what should be censored. [pic] So much of the music on the radio contains large amounts of cursing, with the lyrics requiring to be beeped out. This situation is worsened with our kids listening to these same songs on their iPods, mp3’s, Zune, etc. A majority, if not all, of the music on the devices will have cursing, derogatory sayings, and violent references that parents and other adults would not want their children to hear on a regular basis, but continue to let them do so mostly because of a lack of knowledge about how to use this technology. Though rap is not the only genre of music which frequently includes these concerns, it is a prime example. It is stated...
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...O valor de músicas para games e seus impactos para a promoção do jogo e para a carreira do músico Ao observarmos a história dos jogos de vídeo game, pudemos observar uma incrível evolução tecnológica e artística, de barulhos cômicos e imagens desenhadas a superproduções dignas de Hollywood. Da mesma forma, a música dos games se transformou. O mercado de games cresceu tanto que hoje em dia até mesmo grandes compositores do cinema e televisão estão buscando espaço neste mercado. Em média, um compositor recebe cerca de $2,000 a cada minuto de música gravada em um vídeo game. Valor muito superior ao recebido por compositores de outras mídias de maneira geral. Um jogo famoso pode chegar a render até meio milhão de dólares para seus compositores. A demanda por compositores para vídeo games cresceu tanto, que a universidade de Berklee decidiu abrir duas turmas voltadas para este mercado no começo de 2015, as quais foram lotadas em questão de minutos. Um jogo possui em média cerca de sessenta minutos de música. Porém, pode ser jogado por dias, até mesmo meses. Durante esse tempo, o jogador é exposto repetidamente às músicas do game, que passam a compor sua própria imagem, criando um vínculo com o jogo o qual dificilmente se cria em qualquer outra mídia, como cinema ou televisão. Deste modo, podemos ressaltar que a música é de extrema importância para o marketing do jogo. Sua própria existência traz todo tipo de recordações e reconhecimento aos jogadores. Basta alguns minutos do tema...
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...cross culturally people find hip hop as the excuse. Hip hop seems to be seen as the most impactful and widely endorsed. While the other forms of media seem to be overlooked or not as important. There are “action movies” that always seem to include some amazingly cool shootout where a hero emerges from the smokes. There are the constant military commercials encouraging youth to “fight” for their country. The also popular blame is video games. A couple of the most popular video games include Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Call of Duty (COD). In order to beat GTA you must successfully commit crimes and get away with them while COD wants you to get the most kills (especially when playing live). During a hip hop debate that aired on BET in 2012 Michael Eric Dyson opens up with a statement on hip hop stating “Does hip hop degrade society? People say that because it leads to crime. Did you know crime has declined dramatically in the last 20 years? Murders are down… There is no one to one correlation between a hip hop lyric and a subsequent material condition that leads to criminality.” But even without there being a direct correlation between the two, societies still...
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...Getting Started Important note: The Burning Crusade is an expansion set to World of Warcraft. You must already have a properly installed copy of World of Warcraft in order to install and play this expansion. Installing the Game (PC) TM Welcome Back to the World of Warcraft! System Requirements: OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2). Processor: Intel Pentium 3 800MHz, or AMD Duron 800MHz. Memory: 512 MB RAM, 1 GB RAM is recommended. Video: Minimum: 32 MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above. Recommended: 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above. For a complete list of supported 3D cards, please visit: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww0830p Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card. Install Size: 10 gigabytes of hard disk space. Installation Instructions Place The Burning Crusade CD/DVD into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. If your computer has autoplay enabled, an installation window will automatically pop up on your Windows desktop. Click the Install Burning Crusade button and follow the onscreen instructions to install The Burning Crusade to your hard drive. If the installation window does not appear, open the My Computer icon on your desktop and double-click on the drive letter corresponding to your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive to open it. Double-click on the Install.exe icon...
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...the French language and culture was being ignored, he also believed quebec was not supported by the federal government. Rene Levesque was for an independent country but Prime Minister Trudeau wanted all provinces to stay together to uphold Canada's unity. With the disappointing loss of the votes another referendum was promised. National Energy Program (NEP) is Established Pg 401 In 1980 the Federal government took further steps to ensure Canadian control of energy supplies. Thus the National Energy Program is introduced. Their goal was to establish 50% Canadian ownership of the Canadian oil and gas industry, to make Canada self sufficient in energy by 1990 and to control oil prices. American oil companies were provoked with Canada's progress which lead American companies to pull many of their drilling rigs out of Canada leaving many unemployed, mainly in the western region. The NEP caused a big divide between Ottawa and Western provinces. Constitution Act is Signed by Queen Elizabeth Pg 375 On April 17, 1982 the Constitution Act was signed. Before this act any changes required the approval of the British government because of the British North America Act. Trudeau took action to make Canada a more independent country with this act. The act included 3 main points. The first being the power to amend the constitution would be brought home from Britain. Next is the changes to the constitution could be made if the federal government and 7 provinces agreed. Last point was that a charter of rights and ...
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...language and culture was being ignored, he also believed quebec was not supported by the federal government. Rene Levesque was for an independent country but Prime Minister Trudeau wanted all provinces to stay together to uphold Canada's unity. With the disappointing loss of the votes another referendum was promised. National Energy Program (NEP) is Established Pg 401 In 1980 the Federal government took further steps to ensure Canadian control of energy supplies. Thus the National Energy Program is introduced. Their goal was to establish 50% Canadian ownership of the Canadian oil and gas industry, to make Canada self sufficient in energy by 1990 and to control oil prices. American oil companies were provoked with Canada's progress which lead American companies to pull many of their drilling rigs out of Canada leaving many unemployed, mainly in the western region. The NEP caused a big divide between Ottawa and Western provinces. Constitution Act is Signed by Queen Elizabeth Pg 375 On April 17, 1982 the Constitution Act was signed. Before this act any changes required the approval of the British government because of the British North America Act. Trudeau took action to make Canada a more independent country with this act. The act included 3 main points. The first being the power to amend the constitution would be brought home from Britain. Next is the changes to the constitution could be made if the federal government and 7 provinces agreed. Last point was that a charter...
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...footage from visual sources such as television shows, music videos, movies, or even video games and uses it to create another video. There is a lot of controversy when it comes to vidding. According to copyright laws, the clips of footage being used belong to the original artist(s) and owners from those television shows, music videos, and movies. Those that feel vidding isn’t breaking any copyright laws say that they are just using small clips with no intentions of making money or selling the final video in which the clips are in. White there is a thin line; I believe that creating videos and uploading them to the internet using vidding is not an ethical expression of free speech. Vidding is a violation of copyright laws because an artist’s property is being taken without permission, whether you take one second of footage, or one hour, it is still an infringement. It seems asinine that people would need such an explanation of copyright and fair use laws, but the law isn’t black and white. The law seems unclear on what is infringement or what is fair use, each case is different and there is no set amount of work that can be taken before it turns into infringement Fair use. (2012, June.) There are some that believe that if you just give credit and cite the original artist or owner, you aren’t committing a crime. Television shows and movies have used a trick in the past that lets the branding of a product lead the viewer to what the product is. If a movie character is...
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...IS HIP HOP DEAD? Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………..2 1.FOOTSTEPS/ BRIEF HISTORY ……………………………………………………….3 2.THE HIP HOP GAME/ INDUSTRY ………………………………………………….7 3. UNDERGROUND ………………………………………………………………………..10 5. SAMPLING …………………………………………………………………………………11 6. CREATIVITY IN THE TWO WORLDS ……………………………………………..13 7.SALVATION …………………………………………………………………………………16 CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………………………17 BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION The phrase “Hip-Hop Is Dead” can be found everywhere around hip hop community discussions during the last years. Rapper “Nas” titled his eighth album in 2006 with this statement, and has caused a controversy among rap artists and listeners all over the world. But comparing today`s hip hop music with the roots of hip hop can we really claim that hip-hop is really dead? If so, what are the facts that lead in the death of hip hop? What does its demise mean for the average fan? How to bring it back? Does it mean the genre will go down in irrelevance like what happened in disco music? All these questions will be investigated during this paper, and to understand this complicate statement itself, we should figure out what the statement really means. Maybe it is the fact that most of the genre’s songs and music videos look exactly the same. Maybe it’s the mainstream hip-hop game’s emphasis in ridiculously shinning jewelry, the sexism and the focus on money and women. Better yet, according to Mickey Hess, “hip-hop’s...
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...ideas to write an essay. In short, Internet provides vast informations and knowledge which is very beneficial for the students. Next, Internet also provides lots of social networks such as Facebook , Twitter, MySpace and many other. Through these social networks, we can add more friends and make new friends. We can also know friends from other country as these social networks are used internationally. Other than adding friends, we can also strengthen our relationship with our friends and family who are staying far away from us using Skype. We can see them in front of our eyes eventhough they are actually far away from us through web camera. Besides, Internet also offers entertainment. We canwatch videos of our favourite artists by just one click through 'Youtube' website. We can...
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...amount of success within enormous markets. In the case of Wayforward Technologies, a very small studio, they are an organization that has managed to continue remaining successful amongst the rapidly growing and changing multi-billion dollar video game industry, dominated by companies such as Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, and Valve. With the quality of their products, welcoming atmosphere, and the friendly engagement between the staff amongst themselves and their audience on platforms such as social media, I, as well as many others, have managed a fairly positive opinion on Wayforward Technologies....
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