Saturday, 30 November 2013

Personal Enquiry: Part Three - 'Your graphics have evolved!'
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Personal Enquiry: Part Three - 'Your graphics have evolved!'

Now for the fun part. My last post was a mash up of how the graphics of gaming has evolved over the years, and how different camera angles are used to interpret 3D forms. Instead of banging on about Spyro again, I've decided to look at games I've played over the last few years, and analyse the ever-changing developments within the industry which have helped evoke a sense of...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Personal Enquiry: Part Two
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Personal Enquiry: Part Two

I've been pondering over just what to write for my personal enquiry for the past week or so, and I guess it's probably a good time to get it all down in writing. I don't want to bore you with another history post - which you may or may not find interesting - so I'm going to write about a topic that I find absolutely fascinating, in the hopes that you will too! As I mentioned...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Personal Enquiry: Part One
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Personal Enquiry: Part One

So it's the start of the personal enquiry task, and the end of the history of computing! I'm excited about this one as I'm getting to write about a topic that I find particularly interesting...what to choose though? I started by producing some reeeeaaallly quick mind-maps in Photoshop. Haha good luck reading them. In this first mind-map I covered a variety of different...

Friday, 15 November 2013

A Brief History of Computing: Part Three - From Here to Eternity?
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A Brief History of Computing: Part Three - From Here to Eternity?

So I thought for my final post on the 'history of computers/gaming' task, I'd make this one more personal. I haven't planned this one at all so I'm probably going to go off on one giant tangent about some of the games I'd played during the 2000s. Let's stop the clocks and wind back a few years...I'm approximately 5 years old and I'm sat in front of my TV playing Spyro: Year of...

Thursday, 7 November 2013

A Brief History of Computing: Part Two - The Middle Ages
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A Brief History of Computing: Part Two - The Middle Ages

We're moving on from Antikythera Mechanisms and audio oscillators and onto home gaming and the rise of the genres and companies we know so well today. This is where the main footing of the industry began. Flash back to 1970...the year of the Magnavox Odyssey! Released in 1972, this was the first home video console. Pretty awesome huh? A total of 27 games were produced for this...