Video Games and Visual Literacy

PC games- are played on regular home computers
Examples:

• Monkey Island
• Dragonage
• Mass Effect
• 2000 every 2 yrs to stay current

Console games-playstation sony xbox

• hardware can be flexed
• only invest every 5-10 yrs

Casual and app style gaming-played on most phones, portable devices, internet browsers.
Example:

• Angry Birds

First video game-Tennis for two 1958
William Higinbotham
A computer was able to calculate the trajectories of ballistic missiles

Are video games art? not according to Robert Ebert
Reasons why they could be in other peoples eyes: you can beat it, people work hard to make the games, it is well designed, not all video games has blood

Reasons they may not be in his eyes: they are not in principle, he thinks they resembles chicken scratch,good art and bad art you can tell

In some video games you are given the option to be good or bad.Is this morally wrong?

Honestly the choice is left to the gamer and all gamers will have their own opinion of what is morally wrong and morally right

What about women in video games ? Has the image of women improved?

This is the oldest version of Laura Croft's image in her video game

and this is the most recent

It seems that the image has slightly improved, but i still notice that her chest is quite large. In this image howeer the player may be more distracted by the dirt on her body then the size of her chest. What do you think?

all images taken from google