Remediation is using media in another typer of media such as a digital version of monopoly.
Immediacy - Making the audience forget they are watching a movie because they think they are there
Hypermedia - Making the audience call attention to their nature
It is not completely uncommon to find something that has been Remediated across almost all types of media a prefect example of this is the lord of the rings trilogy they started as a book then turned into three books those then turned into audio tapes, games, and movies.
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Blog Task 10 - Games Britannia Part 3 - Joystick Generation
In Games Britannia part three we saw how Britain made a historic leap from board games to digital games it started off by showing us games like pac man as these games captured digital gaming very well. The show then goes on to tell us about females in games such as Lara Croft the main protagonist from Tomb Raider. In the final part of the show it went on to present day games.
I found this part of Games Britannia to be the most interesting as i prefer digital gaming to non digital.
I found this part of Games Britannia to be the most interesting as i prefer digital gaming to non digital.
Blog Task 9 - La Decima Vittima
We watched a film called La Decima Vittima which was based on assassins. In this film people could get a license and eventually a picture and name of a target that they had to kill, i found the film to be idiotic and incredibly pointless as it all led up to the tenth victim of the two killers and whichever assassin got the kill got the money.
However this movie did inspire what could only be called the most ingenious game ever this game is called Killer in this game a group of people will be assigned a victim to "kill" the assigning of a victim can be done in many ways one of which is by choosing a name or picture of the person from a hat, despite the name of this game it is actually quite harmless this game is best played with friends.
Once you have your victim you then have to "kill" them this can be done in any non-lethal way using anything non-lethal such as a pillow, wooden mixing spoon or a spatular there are many more items but these are the only ones that came to my mind.
Blog Task 8 - Tweaking Ancient Games
We were set an assignment which was to pick and iterate an ancient game of our choice.
I chose The Royal Game of Ur and after playing the game i had concluded that the game was far to long for player to be able sit through more than one game because the player had to land exactly on the last tile to get off the board and the board also had rosette square which when you landed on the rosette you were safe and could not be taken by another player, so in an attempt to speed the game i changed both of these rules my first change was that you no longer had land exactly on the last square to get your piece of the board and that when you land on a rosette you can choose to roll again or stay their and remain safe i found that this really sped up the game and made the game a lot more enjoyable as people were no longer leaving pieces on the rosette square so it was safe.
I chose The Royal Game of Ur and after playing the game i had concluded that the game was far to long for player to be able sit through more than one game because the player had to land exactly on the last tile to get off the board and the board also had rosette square which when you landed on the rosette you were safe and could not be taken by another player, so in an attempt to speed the game i changed both of these rules my first change was that you no longer had land exactly on the last square to get your piece of the board and that when you land on a rosette you can choose to roll again or stay their and remain safe i found that this really sped up the game and made the game a lot more enjoyable as people were no longer leaving pieces on the rosette square so it was safe.
Blog Task 6 - Going Cardboard
We watched a show called going cardboard this show was about how board games had become a very important part of peoples lives.
Here is the Synopsis from IMBd:
In 1978, the German press and board game makers created the Spiel des Jahres, or 'Game of the Year' award for excellence in board game design. Competition for this award contributed to an explosion in the variety and sophistication of 'Euro-games.' With the arrival of The Settlers of Catan in the United States in the mid-nineties, more people began to discover the new breed of board game that had been quietly evolving in Germany for the past 30+ years.
Designer board gaming is an up and coming hobby made up of many fascinating facets. Going Cardboard helps make newcomers aware of what they've been missing, while at the same time letting hobby enthusiasts hear from the actual designers responsible for some of their favorite games, and a look behind the scenes at what makes the designer board games industry tick.
Source: IMDb website, link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229165/
I found this show to be very surprising because i wasn't aware of just how into board games some people are the most surprising part of the whole documentary to me was when the people started talking about how many board games they had one person said that they had a very small amount of board game but the amount they owned was actually in the hundreds and one person made this mans collection actually seem small when the couple said "we are actually behind on our inventory but it's some around 11.000 - 11,500" this couple had actually cleared out a room just for their board games. Other than the absurd amount of board games some people had I was very surprised to learn that Germany hosts the largest board game convention where people from all over the world go to this convention to see what board games are there and to play other people at their favourite games.
Here is the Synopsis from IMBd:
In 1978, the German press and board game makers created the Spiel des Jahres, or 'Game of the Year' award for excellence in board game design. Competition for this award contributed to an explosion in the variety and sophistication of 'Euro-games.' With the arrival of The Settlers of Catan in the United States in the mid-nineties, more people began to discover the new breed of board game that had been quietly evolving in Germany for the past 30+ years.
Source: IMDb website, link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229165/
I found this show to be very surprising because i wasn't aware of just how into board games some people are the most surprising part of the whole documentary to me was when the people started talking about how many board games they had one person said that they had a very small amount of board game but the amount they owned was actually in the hundreds and one person made this mans collection actually seem small when the couple said "we are actually behind on our inventory but it's some around 11.000 - 11,500" this couple had actually cleared out a room just for their board games. Other than the absurd amount of board games some people had I was very surprised to learn that Germany hosts the largest board game convention where people from all over the world go to this convention to see what board games are there and to play other people at their favourite games.
Blog Task 5 - Dicing with Destiny - Games Britannia - Monopolies and Mergers
In the second part of Games Britannia showed us a how the board games we all play now came to be, we saw very early examples of what would become known as monopoly. I noticed that a lot of external goings on influenced the games being made, most notably was WW2 and monopoly even though they have no connection with each other the game of monopoly must have saved many lives as it used to have a map on the back and real money to help POW's escape.
I also found that monopoly originated from a game called brer fox and rabbit or more commonly known as the landlords game in which the whole aim of the game was to e the player with the most money and land, after researching this game i found out some thing which i thought was a little odd this was that Elizabeth Maggie the creator of the game wanted children to play this game in the hopes that it might provoke their suspicion and that they would carry this suspicion into adulthood I thought this was odd because most games don't tend to do things like this
I also found that monopoly originated from a game called brer fox and rabbit or more commonly known as the landlords game in which the whole aim of the game was to e the player with the most money and land, after researching this game i found out some thing which i thought was a little odd this was that Elizabeth Maggie the creator of the game wanted children to play this game in the hopes that it might provoke their suspicion and that they would carry this suspicion into adulthood I thought this was odd because most games don't tend to do things like this
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