Video game & interaction

Computer game software production had become an industry since the 1980's after the birth of the video arcade, the home video game system, and the personal computer. In the past fifteen years, as personal computers' capacities have continued to exponentially expand, computer games have continued to develop, offering increasingly detailed graphics and sounds, growing opportunities for multiple-player interaction via on-line services.


With its development I find that games today now have its distinct style of gameplay to interact with the player for instance the game console Wii which gives players a sense of "control" in terms of the characters movement, and actions. Particularly with variety of sports games provided by Wii the player can be set as the 1st person competing with the opponent and the feeling of reality can be one of its provided features.


Video games today introduces the idea of 'role playing', and emphasizes the opportunity to identify with the character on the screen - the fantasy is that rather than just watching the hero, you can actually be the hero, or at least make all the hero's decisions yourself (Sims City). I find it fascinating how games have developed even more when I thought the interaction involved in the particular video game Pokémon Snap introduced by Nintendo 64 in 1999 where players have to capture photographs of different Pokémon’s. Each Pokémons have their own style of moving around and reacting to the camera and the environment around them. As you interact with them through taking photographs players could see Pokémons too were able to interact with each other. This made the whole style of the game unique and much more interesting and challenging as each time players had to interact in different ways to get the best photo shots to finish the stage. Now the game was even more modified and was released in Japan on the Wii’s Virtual Console on December 4, 2007. The virtual Console version is said to further feature the ability to send pictures taken in the game to the Wii Message Board and send them to friends.

Many of the newer video games people play today and also those popular ones require strategies among multiple players in order for any single player to advance. This means that the idea of interaction between players for instance the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game and other games like this illustrates the potential for cooperation to produce mutually beneficial outcomes can be seen as the new concept of gameplay.