Safety from my own home
3:World of Warcraft
A good amount of individuals feel that video games are bad for individuals, especially adolescences, but video games don't always have to be a bad thing.
A big concern today is the safety of children. Just a couple years ago, many people would let their child run around the neighborhood without fearing child abduction. Every child knew that they were going to eat dinner that evening, whether it is at their house, or a friend’s house. But in today's world, parents are less likely to let their children run around all day and night because of fear. You hear about children being abducted every day and see the devastating families on the news. By letting your child stay at home and allowing friends to come over you are guaranteeing their safety.
By letting the children or adults playing video game consoles or on their personal computers help guarantee their safety because they are in the home. Just because they are playing the video game in a group doesn't mean they are going to be antisocial and mean to each other. Researchers state that playing video games actually help individuals with social norms.
There are many different studies that favor video game play because they teach children problem solving skills, sharing, and to help each other when help is needed. Video games also help form cultural norms because of the content that is being introduced. For instance, in the eastern cultures, such as Japan, they value games that are family oriented and usually are focused more on a story line. Such games include Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Mario. In the Western cultures, we are more focused on war and being the hero is certain situations, such games include; Call of Duty, Halo, Assassins Creed.
The picture above is a screen shot of a game called World of Warcraft. This game is a massive online role-playing game, which allows you to connect to a server on the Internet so you can play with individuals all around the world. In the picture above, it’s a group of friends that have either met online or in person doing a dungeon. They are planning ideas on how to defeat a boss; each individual is contributing their ideas to verify which would be the best idea.
A big concern today is the safety of children. Just a couple years ago, many people would let their child run around the neighborhood without fearing child abduction. Every child knew that they were going to eat dinner that evening, whether it is at their house, or a friend’s house. But in today's world, parents are less likely to let their children run around all day and night because of fear. You hear about children being abducted every day and see the devastating families on the news. By letting your child stay at home and allowing friends to come over you are guaranteeing their safety.
By letting the children or adults playing video game consoles or on their personal computers help guarantee their safety because they are in the home. Just because they are playing the video game in a group doesn't mean they are going to be antisocial and mean to each other. Researchers state that playing video games actually help individuals with social norms.
There are many different studies that favor video game play because they teach children problem solving skills, sharing, and to help each other when help is needed. Video games also help form cultural norms because of the content that is being introduced. For instance, in the eastern cultures, such as Japan, they value games that are family oriented and usually are focused more on a story line. Such games include Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Mario. In the Western cultures, we are more focused on war and being the hero is certain situations, such games include; Call of Duty, Halo, Assassins Creed.
The picture above is a screen shot of a game called World of Warcraft. This game is a massive online role-playing game, which allows you to connect to a server on the Internet so you can play with individuals all around the world. In the picture above, it’s a group of friends that have either met online or in person doing a dungeon. They are planning ideas on how to defeat a boss; each individual is contributing their ideas to verify which would be the best idea.
Playing video games are like playing a sport
4 - Starcraft team
If your parents say that you are not going to do anything in your life playing video games, you can say that they are wrong. A lot of video games are meeting in person and holding national competitions for fanatics. For instance, Blizzard, which is one of the top 5 video game distributers, has three main games it releases. They are very popular for their games, World of Warcraft (MMO), Starcraft (RTS) and Diablo. Blizzard holds national conference called Blizzcon and then they also hold national video game competitions.
Starcraft holds an annual competition that last for a month. This competition consists of different clans, usually five to six individuals who play on a bracket to become the top clan of that season. It works the same way as playing a sport. The clan gets sponsors for the team and sends them to this competition. Some even go as far as paying for coaches to learn different strategy skills. While they are at this competition, it is split up as individuals and groups and they play until the bracket is complete. There learn from each other, meet new people, and might even go as far as to trading clan members. This is a great way to meet new people in person and the relationship continues to online play, whether good or bad relationships. The winner of the competitions can when up to quarter million dollars and/or more by being a part of more competitions.
The first video, the King of Kong: fistful of Quarters is a documentary between two very competitive individuals. They were both the top players in the Arcade Donkey Kong. This movie explains how competiton plays a huge part and is probably the very first video game competition created.
The second video is a short (fifteen minute clip) on a Starcraft competition.
Starcraft holds an annual competition that last for a month. This competition consists of different clans, usually five to six individuals who play on a bracket to become the top clan of that season. It works the same way as playing a sport. The clan gets sponsors for the team and sends them to this competition. Some even go as far as paying for coaches to learn different strategy skills. While they are at this competition, it is split up as individuals and groups and they play until the bracket is complete. There learn from each other, meet new people, and might even go as far as to trading clan members. This is a great way to meet new people in person and the relationship continues to online play, whether good or bad relationships. The winner of the competitions can when up to quarter million dollars and/or more by being a part of more competitions.
The first video, the King of Kong: fistful of Quarters is a documentary between two very competitive individuals. They were both the top players in the Arcade Donkey Kong. This movie explains how competiton plays a huge part and is probably the very first video game competition created.
The second video is a short (fifteen minute clip) on a Starcraft competition.
Critical thinking skills
5 - Tomb Raider 2013
Video games have adapted to the different age groups that it’s targeting. They can focus on anything from learning basic shapes and numbers to how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Even though people say that you will never have to remember how to learn how to survive a zombie apocalypse, it does help you learn critical thinking skills. Games to day, especially westernized games follow our very fast life-style and culture. In the games, you will come across different strategies such as problem solving and quick reaction time.
There are two different types of video games, free-roam and storyline. The game play may seem the same, but the lessons are very different and can be very aggravating. In story line game, you have to following everything, movement-by-movement, strategy by strategy. If you don't do anything to continue, you will stay at that exact part of the game until you figure out what you have to do, a good game to relate to a storyline game is Tomb Raider 2013.
That can be somewhat aggravating to some people because they are not able to further go the story line. A free-roam game usually does have a storyline to go with it. The difference is that if you don't know exactly how to do a certain part in the game, you are able to let it set aside and do something else. This means roam the whole map, or worlds in the game, meet new AI's, do more quest to further along in a different direction. In the free-roam games, either the free-roam quest can affect the original storyline, or visa versa. A good example of a game with a free-roam storyline is Skyrim.
There are two different types of video games, free-roam and storyline. The game play may seem the same, but the lessons are very different and can be very aggravating. In story line game, you have to following everything, movement-by-movement, strategy by strategy. If you don't do anything to continue, you will stay at that exact part of the game until you figure out what you have to do, a good game to relate to a storyline game is Tomb Raider 2013.
That can be somewhat aggravating to some people because they are not able to further go the story line. A free-roam game usually does have a storyline to go with it. The difference is that if you don't know exactly how to do a certain part in the game, you are able to let it set aside and do something else. This means roam the whole map, or worlds in the game, meet new AI's, do more quest to further along in a different direction. In the free-roam games, either the free-roam quest can affect the original storyline, or visa versa. A good example of a game with a free-roam storyline is Skyrim.
Gain an interest
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When Children play video games, they aren't just pushing buttons on a computer and/or a controller, they are playing varies types of code. When you usually get interested in a hobby, you want to learn everything about it, including history, how it’s put together and so on. Video games are no exception.
Usually individuals who play video games start to form a hobby revolved around computers and designing because they want to know how their favorite video game works. They learn how to learn and take apart a console or computer, basic designing skills to learn how to texture and create worlds, and they also gain an interest in coding.
With our world being ran by technology, coding is a very crucial element because anything that we can think of, electronically is ran by some sort of code, whether it be Lennox, or C++. Coding is becoming a very crucial area in our society due to the technological increase. So when your child says that he/she is gaining an interest in games, let it happen because that can open the door to coding and then also to math and science.
To learn more infomation about coding, please visit this site.
Usually individuals who play video games start to form a hobby revolved around computers and designing because they want to know how their favorite video game works. They learn how to learn and take apart a console or computer, basic designing skills to learn how to texture and create worlds, and they also gain an interest in coding.
With our world being ran by technology, coding is a very crucial element because anything that we can think of, electronically is ran by some sort of code, whether it be Lennox, or C++. Coding is becoming a very crucial area in our society due to the technological increase. So when your child says that he/she is gaining an interest in games, let it happen because that can open the door to coding and then also to math and science.
To learn more infomation about coding, please visit this site.
