How Technology Changes Game Design

Channel:
Canada The Game Overanalyser
Subscribers:
21,200
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnTSjE7BXs


Category:
Vlog
Duration: 14:19
2,311 views
151

Technological determinism is the idea that technology drives civilization in specific directions, influencing society and culture, setting us on a trajectory. This idea is implicit in a lot of how the gaming industry thinks of itself, cycles of innovation, new platforms, next generations, all falling out of this rhetoric. This video explores how hardware, software and production technologies have impacted the evolution of game design, and what role the human being has in influencing the arc of the medium.

Support the channel https://www.patreon.com/gameoveranalyser

Sources

- Racing the Beam , Ian Bogost and Nick Monfort

- How we design games now and why , Katharine Neil
https://medium.com/@haikus_by_KN/how-we-design-games-now-and-why-bcbc1deb7559

- Preventing the Collapse of Civilization, Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

- Why N64 games and PS1 games were different, Purple Arcade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKX_i4BlGs

- Ps1 vs Atari Vs N64 https://www.racketboy.com/journal/ps1-strength-and-weaknesses-vs-n64-sega-saturn

- Hideo Kojima GDC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq1Jyr6ffU&t=10s

- Practical Creativity GDC , Raph Koster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30&t=43s

- The Peculiar Future of Video Game History , Eric Fredner https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/the-peculiar-future-of-videogame-history/



Other Videos By The Game Overanalyser


2023-11-24Game Design as Narrative Architecture | The 5 Types of Spaces in Games
2023-11-03Games with Epic Spectacle
2023-10-13How Controllers Impact Game Design
2023-09-22The Art of JRPG Design | Genre Essence
2023-09-01How Game Designers Enable Player Freedom
2023-08-11How Technology Changes Game Design
2023-07-21The 5 Kinds of Writing About Games | A Real History of Video Game Criticism
2023-06-30The Simulation Fallacy in Game Design
2023-06-09How Video Game Journalism is Propaganda | Manufacturing Gamers
2023-05-19A Theory of Depth for Game Design
2023-04-28The Haunting Beauty of Cities in Games
2023-03-24The Paradox of Open World Game Design
2023-02-17A Theory of 4th Wall Breaks for Video Games | Hyper Realism
2022-09-26Balance in Game Design
2022-04-29A Theory of Beauty for Games
2021-12-03Nonverbal Communication in Game Design
2021-08-13A Theory of Play's Revolutionary Power | Playfulness
2021-05-07A Theory of How Reality is a Game | Gamespace
2021-04-02The Puzzle of Stealth Game Design
2021-03-19The Paradox of Rules in Games and Life
2021-03-12Ecological Game Design | Final Fantasy 7 , Flower and the Nature of Play


Tags:
the game overanalyser
game design
does technology determine game design
technology and games