Answer four questions regarding video game industry

Answer four questions: 2 pages double space in total

[login to view URL] of incentives, such as tax credits, to

help develop the video game industry in Ontario, BC, and in Quebec. Discuss how

these types of programs are structured to encourage investment in the industry and

discuss why/why not you think these programs are a good idea. Can you relate the

video game industry incentives to the film tax credits that used to exist in New

Brunswick/Nova Scotia? What other industries rely on incentives?

2. As described in the film, from their initial development via the military-industrialacademic

complex, video games continued to grow in complexity. The text highlights

the point that complex software fostered demand for increasingly powerful hardware

while the availability of better hardware encouraged developers to create more

complex games. Briefly discuss the evolution of gaming hardware (8bit, 16bit, 64bit

etc) and the increasingly complex games — use specific examples? How does this

relate to the notion of Moores Law? What does the near future look like for video

games?

3. In class we discussed the idea that video games represent “the ideal commodity of a

post-fordist/postmodern/promotional capitalism”. How are many of the ideas of new

media, that we have been discussing all term, encapsulated in video games?

(interactivity, prosumer development, online communities, digital convergence, rise

of creative/knowledge workers, digital divide)

4. Gamification is a currently a very trendy topic. Elements of games are being used to

train, condition, or encourage/discourage certain type of behaviour. The FitBit is a

good example of how personal health is being ‘gamified’ - rewarding users for

healthy behaviour while discouraging unhealthy behaviour. China has even gamified

becoming an obedient citizen ([login to view URL]).

Increasingly, higher education has been incorporating elements of gaming into the

classroom. Read the Lee Sheldon article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (http://

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playing-to-win/21981). Describe how this class may be ‘gamified’. Would

this encourage student participation and involvement or would you seek out a class

that uses a traditional marking system?An

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