What is a Video Game?

For the last week of class the main topic was video games. The class as a whole talked about what makes a video game a video game. We as a class made a list of things or parts that make a video game a video game. Like does it have to have a storyline or does it have to be fun. From there we were shown how most of the parts of things that was on the list could be challenged. Like does the game have to be

fun? When you think about games they are meant to be fun. Now a day games they are challenging that part of games. By making games that are scary and make you think, like Slender Man. Slender Man is a game where you go around finding objects but you have to avoid Slender Man at all cost. If you do not then you die and game over. It is stressful because he can come out of any where and if you look back he goes after you faster.
 The way the game is made makes the concept of Slender Man more scary. The game design is your out in the woods and you only have a flashlight. The flashlight only goes so far so it can freak someone out when Slender Man shows up. Also it is easy to get lost with in the woods.

After we talked about the list we were broken up in to groups and given different types of video games. As a group we were given Jurassic Heart to research. Jurassic Heart is a game that lets you fall in love with a T-Rex. It is a dating simulation game, which is extremely popular in Japan. It has the traditional Japanese dating sim. It starts of with a girl who is going on a date with her long-time crush. The twist is the long-time crush, is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The T-Rex also attends the same high school as the girl and wears a tie. The game has you make three decisions, like what kind of hair clip to wear. With each decision that you pick it will affecting the outcome of the game. You can have a short date or a long one dictating on which decisions you pick. If you get to the end, you have a great date and the end up singing together or you can make him mad and the date ends.