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    An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture
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    1. Thisiscoi 03 Sep 2024
      simulations and artificial intelligence, and thehumanities computing field. It was particularly from the last of these where the contemporary wave of gamestudies started to emerge. Many of the people working within this paradigm approached computers as a po-tential new medium

      a lot of popular games are based in simulation most notably (the sims) and others like goat simulator, minecraft etc...so its no suprise that lots of popular games have the siimulation aspect. the range of control in an artifical siutation has a pleasing disposition to be a game

    2. Thisiscoi 03 Sep 2024
      learning by playing may even be called the oldest learning method

      i actually use this methodology to explain new games. its faster to play and learn from the experience personally

    3. Thisiscoi 03 Sep 2024
      Games may even haveimportant effects on the ways, particularly, the younger ‘gamer generations’ think and operate and to the di-rection our societies are developing

      with the generations only becoming more infused with digital media and the "ipad kid" idenity i think this is definately something worth exploring

    4. Thisiscoi 03 Sep 2024
      The situation is changing, and in the future the issue is likely to be put the opposite way – why should therenot be game studies represented in a modern university?

      to my above question

    5. Thisiscoi 03 Sep 2024
      tudies at the time of writing (in 2006) has not yet reached this stage in many universities,

      i wonder now in this day and age with digital game culture having such large platforms and cultural impact in media (streamers on twitch, five nights at freedies, flappy bird, amoung us, candy crush) if the field had also helped expand this into something larger that just for developers

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