IAT210W05
IAT 210 – Week 5
Summer 2014
Group Work
Let’s play some games
Go to http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/
Pick five games and answer the following:
Arcade Games
What are the game objects?
What are the attributes of the game objects?
Are there state changes for any game object?
Describe, in verbs, the actions that can be taken.
How does randomness intersect the game?
Digital Games I
Old White Guys
Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax
Insurance underwriter turned shoe repairman
Avid wargamer, particularly with miniatures
Developed Chainmail ruleset and launched Gen Con
Also invented Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Tabletop roleplaying game
Players assume the roles and attributes of fantasy characters
A loosely bounded collaborative storytelling game
A bad influence on kids!
D20 system of games
Comic-Con
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell
Began as an engineer, turned entrepreneur
Fascinated by amusement parks - turned down by
Disney!
Inventor of the Atari game system
Was inspired by…
B. F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning
The Skinner Box is a common tool for psychological experiments on animals
You hit levers and get rewarded by food pellets
Led to one-armed bandits and video game consoles!
Also anti-social for kids
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell
Began by “paying homage” to DEC mainframe’s
SpaceWar
Then moved on to MagnaVox and Pong
Settled out of court, but the race was on
Along the way, he employed…
Wozniak & Jobs
Wozniak & Jobs
They weren’t the founders of the home computer revolution, but they’ve become the poster boys
TI 99 4A actually had a 35% market share early on
Originally worked at Atari on the Breakout arcade game
Using Atari parts and help from employees, made the first Apple computer
Bushnell declined to invest $50,000 in their startup
Chuck E Cheese!
Wozniak & Jobs
Why were personal computers so
Summer 2014
Group Work
Let’s play some games
Go to http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/
Pick five games and answer the following:
Arcade Games
What are the game objects?
What are the attributes of the game objects?
Are there state changes for any game object?
Describe, in verbs, the actions that can be taken.
How does randomness intersect the game?
Digital Games I
Old White Guys
Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax
Insurance underwriter turned shoe repairman
Avid wargamer, particularly with miniatures
Developed Chainmail ruleset and launched Gen Con
Also invented Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Tabletop roleplaying game
Players assume the roles and attributes of fantasy characters
A loosely bounded collaborative storytelling game
A bad influence on kids!
D20 system of games
Comic-Con
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell
Began as an engineer, turned entrepreneur
Fascinated by amusement parks - turned down by
Disney!
Inventor of the Atari game system
Was inspired by…
B. F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning
The Skinner Box is a common tool for psychological experiments on animals
You hit levers and get rewarded by food pellets
Led to one-armed bandits and video game consoles!
Also anti-social for kids
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell
Began by “paying homage” to DEC mainframe’s
SpaceWar
Then moved on to MagnaVox and Pong
Settled out of court, but the race was on
Along the way, he employed…
Wozniak & Jobs
Wozniak & Jobs
They weren’t the founders of the home computer revolution, but they’ve become the poster boys
TI 99 4A actually had a 35% market share early on
Originally worked at Atari on the Breakout arcade game
Using Atari parts and help from employees, made the first Apple computer
Bushnell declined to invest $50,000 in their startup
Chuck E Cheese!
Wozniak & Jobs
Why were personal computers so