Gold Arts Award - Online Gaming
My Challenge is to investigate the appeal of online gaming and its recent rise in popularity.
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Communicating my view.
Most of my friends decided to present their views with a talk on their own individual topics, I on the other hand decided to communicate my view on my blog. This allowed me to communicate my argument to as many people as possible rather than a select few who were at the talks. Unfortunately that didn't go fully to plan as after a number of weeks no debate had arisen so I had to direct people using Facebook to the blog to create a debate.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Finally My Final Piece
Monday 5 March 2012
Event Feedback.
Visitors filling out feedback forms. |
At the end of the day we asked the visitors to fill out a
feedback form and after reading through the forms I have found that the overall
feeling of how the day went was positive with the only issue being that the
heating was off. In retrospect that would have been something we should have
looked into and if I was ever going to do this kind of thing again I would ask
the owners of the venue to ensure the heating was on. However apart from this I
would call the day a success.
Overall we got very good feedback. |
The Event!!!!
The day had finally arrived. We started to set up at 10:30am
to give us plenty of time to deal with any problems or hiccups.
Visitors to the event trying out some of the games |
Some of the enthusiastic visitors checking out the games. |
The event attracted quite a crowd. |
As Technical Coordinator my job was to ensure that all the
equipment was working and set up correctly.
The day went very well with only
one minor issue with the talk from head of ANT Creative Adam Graham. During his
talk on the similarities between videogames and films his computer lost audio.
As a result of trying to correct this mishap all the presentations we had
planned for the day were pushed back, meaning we finished later than we
expected. However apart from this issue the were no real problems.
Our small mishap with the computer during Adam Graham's presentation. |
Alan showing some of the visitors his section of the exhibition. |
Planning The Event
Set up
We started planning our event about a month in advance to
ensure when we came to the day we would have all the equipment required and we
would have enough time to advertise the event.
Roles:
Vigneshwar Paleri –Event Manager
Charlie Roberson – Production Manager
Alan Ng – Marketing Executive
James Anderson – Technical Coordinator
Nathaniel Graham – Programme Coordinator
Budget:
We were given a budget of £100 to cover equipment, hiring
venue and advertisement.
Location:
To reduce the costs of hiring out a hall or other venue we
decided to try and hold the event at our school. Although this gave us more of
the budget to spend on any advertisement such as posters and flyers, using the
school as the venue meant that we were restricted to the dates we could hold
the event.
Event Format:
The location we were given had a large hall with five rooms
coming off it. We decided to base one of the rooms around each of the topics of
our Gold Arts Awards with the main hall with general interactive art based reports
and photographs of what we had been doing. My room was based around multiplayer gaming. However due to the lack of an internet connection I was unable to do any online gaming, instead I decided to show games such as; Portal 2 and LittleBigPlanet 2 and displayed some reports on the affects of multiplayer gaming.
Advertisement:
We decided to only have a invited audience of friends family
and those who had helped us with our gold arts award. This meant that we only
needed to advertise to a small group of people. We did this by sending out
invites and flyers.
Sunday 4 March 2012
Online Multiplayer Gaming vs Single Player Gaming
I have laid out the arguments for both single player and multiplayer gaming below. In my opinion I am pro single player. But don't let that sway your mind give your opinion in the comment section at the bottom.
Ctrl - Alt - Del.... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I should really back up more often. I had planned to have my final piece as some game footage with me narrating and explaining my point of view of the gaming industry and in particular the online multiplayer community. Unfortunately for me when I had almost finished my computer crashed and I lost all my work. I am remaking my final piece but this time I am having to slim it down.
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