Kind of games

1.     Adventure

2.     Roll playing

3.     Sports

4.     Card games

5.     Arcade games

6.     Flight simulators

7.     3d games

8.     Children’s games

 

Platform

  1. Computer – win95/98 direct-x (Mac or pc)
  2. Video games – console games
  3. Multi-player games
    1. Peer to peer – modem
    2. Pc network
    3. Client server

 

Languages

  1. Assembly
  2. C
  3. C++
  4. VB
  5. Java

 

Tools

  1. Sound digitizer
  2. Music editor or sequencer
  3. Graphics tools like photo shop
  4. Video digitizer
  5. Video camera’s
  6. Graphics library
  7. Game engines

 

Trends

  1. 3D technology
  2. Virtual reality
  3. Really good AI
  4. Specialized play hardware
  5. Web games (interactive)

 

 

History

  1. 1960/70 – games developed on mainframe (no graphics)
  2. 1961 – game developed at MIT called space war used vector graphics
  3. 1971 – Bushnell developed computer space given credit for being the first commercial arcade game – company he created renamed Atari
  4. 1972 pong in an arcade by Atari
  5. 1974 Kee (Atari spin-off) tank used read only memory
  6. 1975 William Crowther invented adventure games (text based)
  7. 1976 Bushnell sells Atari to Warner for 26 million
    1. Breakout designed by Steve jobs/woz
  8. 1977 Atari 2600 vcs
    1. Apple 2 created
  9. 1978 space invaders
  10. 1979 activision formed by Atari developers Atari 800
  11. 1980 Phillips Odyssey 2 and Matel intellivision
    1. Pac man
    2. Atari doing a billion a year
    3. Asteroids
  12. 1981 game industry > 6 billion in sales
    1. Nintendo – Donkey-kong, miss pac man centipede IBM pc
  13. 1982 Atari losses money
    1. Game companies –sierra online, Broderbund, budgelo
    2. Electronic arts formed
  14. 1983 Crash Mattel loses 225 million dollars
    1. Dragons lair
    2. Commodore 64
  15. 1984 mac attack industry falls to < 800 million
    1. Kings Quest
  16. 1985 Nintendo lockup chips Atari tries a 16 bit machine
    1. Carmon Santiago is released
  17. Commodore released the Amiga
    1. Sega shipped Sega master
    2. Atari ships 7800
  18. 1987 Electronic Arts skate or die
    1. IBM pc EGA?SVGA
  19. 1988 Tetris
  20. 1989 Sega genesis 16 bit gameboy NES super Mario brothers
  21. 1990 Super Mario 3 pc’s and consoles
  22.  1991 Super NES 16 bit
  23. 1992 PC gaming explodes
    1. Nintendo 7 billion in sales
  24. 1993 Pentium chip is launched Nintendo 80%
  25.  1994 Atari Jaguar civilization is published doom, myst
  26.  1995 32 bit wars sega Saturn Sony ships play station windows 95 and direct x www full motion video (7th guest)
  27. 1996 Nintendo ships 64 multi-player gaming series
  28. 1997 force feedback Pentium 2’s @ 200 MHZ
  29. 1998 play station kicks ass in consoles