Forums → Games → Video Games Attraction

I wrote this up today in thoughts. I use studies and facts, hope you find it interesting, and I thought this would be the best forum since it did pertain to the topic.

Part 1.
Main attraction

When people first started seeing video games new releases they thought it would be the end of theatre, and other forms of entertainment. But are disproved by results, the basis's of entertainment lay in seperate area's of attraction. For example, while video games may have inter-activity, the movies provoke more emotions, thoughts and full fledged stories, arguably the basic amenity of art.
But of course don't get me wrong the video game industry didn't start on a base of hollow thoughts, it delved quickly into digital Utopia's or quick thinking killers.
The general words for these attractions were conducted by research and I'll list them simply.

A. The first attraction, as stated in digital Utopia's(1), is fantasy. Many people dream of doing things in their life and when they feel or know they cannot be accomplished they realize that a video game can project their dreams and achieve them. So as known, specific games appeal to different players, since fantasy was a sparked genre by mythology, tall tales, and legends it grazes the mind of any child today, and occasionally adults.

Now to say that people are attracted to these games by pure fantasy would be a farce, there are common elements in all attractions and genre's of video games. These would be listed farther down the page(2). The story of the game has a lot to do with these gamers, plots rich and graphic pictography of the unfolding stories help very much. It's the inter-active portion though that makes fantasy such an overwhelmingly celebrated and successful topic, is the use of several things used in self actualization(3), a top if you will of a hierarchy of human need and motivation, motivating the player to continue, creating an addiction. It uses items as goals as a set of digital tangible rewards that creates a satisfaction in the player's conscience, thus making him want to start a new goal and continue a journey to a completion, which if elaborated, may not be a single goal or thing(4).

B. This is a simple attraction that can be shared with the likes of roller coasters, and base jumping. Adrenaline is created in fast action and threats, and of course goals. As taking part of the kill, race, or other quick reactive goals. Plots can be escaping but these aren't common in many of these games in this Attraction basis.
For example, Shellshock in Half Life Twoeathmatch, it's a very basic adrenaline rush, by using fast speeds, weapon's as goals, and fast reaction times, it completes the basis of what creates adrenaline.

Part 2
(1)Utopia is a common word after Sir Saint Thomas More, Victor Michels, Theobald Ziegler, wrote their book in 1895 about the fantasy dream world that would be the best life to live in a world, Utopia's thoughts are now commonly shunned because to create a perfect place many basic human needs would be given up creating a bland and generally thought unhappy lifestyle.
Now Utopia stands as the basic word though for &quoterfect place"

(2)The four basic video game needs:
Sounds- Most people would know that people are classified as Auditory, Kinesthetic, or Visual learners, and everyone must have some part of each, so without all three in a video game the story looses interest fast. Auditory learners however must have sounds to keep the images vivid or exciting

Visuals- Visuals or graphics as referred to in writing a report are important, obviously, without them in the first place there is no video game, but the better they are the more enticing the game may be, for example, a game can be a peice of dung, but can still be very enticing to watch it unfold.

Interactivity- This is the main interest in video games, it can be referred to as controls, game play, or handling. Of course without interactivity it would be a movie, song, or digital tale. The interactive need is a strong one in many games so when Wii imagined the system using movement as a key ingredient of interactivity, it resulted in being the #1 sold console in many nations including the US.

Plot- This would be the movie theme but the plot does matter, without it what would graphics be but just a pretty picture, plot would be where fantasy lies and how goals help entertain. A simple enough need for games.

(3) Here I refer to the Psychologist, Dr Maslow's theory of human needs and motivation. As depicted below, the basic living needs come as a base, but the higher up the pyramid the happier your life is to be, and more productive. His book, as published in 1970 is now thought as of a basic knowledge in managing and supervising, and required in many classes.

His hierarchy or pyramid:

Or go here if the image doesn't come out. [url]http://ambrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/400px-maslows_hierarchy_of_needssvg.png[/url]

(4)World of Warcraft is the basic example of this theorem, the game play lacks very much but rich images and cohersive goals encourage players to keep paying $15 a month to make them the most well known online MMORPG. The goals are endless and that's the ploy of such a game. I highly recommend staying away from this category for it may be the most costly!

Accomplishing these goals is a video game designers best wish to creating a successful game and artwork, so keeping this in mind may help you with future produce in such an area, and helps analyze how decent the game actually is.

This is all written by me, J4son, and ANY reproduction of this, copyrighted or not, should come with expressed permission only.
Thanks.