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Computer games refer to games played on personal computers, consoles, or arcade machines. They involve interacting with objects on a screen for entertainment. Early computer games were text-based adventures, while modern games use graphics. To play games, a computer needs to meet certain system requirements for aspects like the GPU, RAM, and CPU. Popular genres include action, role-playing, simulation, strategy, and sports games. While some argue games can promote unhealthy habits, others believe they provide relaxation and can enhance problem-solving and analytical skills.

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Computer Games

Computer games refer to games played on personal computers, consoles, or arcade machines. They involve interacting with objects on a screen for entertainment. Early computer games were text-based adventures, while modern games use graphics. To play games, a computer needs to meet certain system requirements for aspects like the GPU, RAM, and CPU. Popular genres include action, role-playing, simulation, strategy, and sports games. While some argue games can promote unhealthy habits, others believe they provide relaxation and can enhance problem-solving and analytical skills.

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Computer Games

IVAN YOVOV
WHAT ARE COMPUTER GAMES

 A computer game is a computer-controlled game where


players interact with objects displayed on a screen for the
sake of entertainment.
 A video game is essentially the same form of entertainment,
but refers not only to games played on a personal computer,
but also to games run by a console or arcade machine.
 The term "computer game" also includes games which
display only text or which use other methods, such as sound
or vibration, as their primary feedback device, or a
controller (console games), or a combination of any of the
above.
HISTORY OF COMPUTER GAMES

Bertie the Brain (1950) - The earliest known Spacewar! (1952) - Considered one of the first
publicly demonstrated electronic game recognized video games
The first generation of computer games were often text-based adventures or interactive
fiction, in which the player communicated with the computer by entering commands through
a keyboard.

Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)


By the 1980s, personal computers had become powerful enough to run
games like Adventure, but by this time, graphics were beginning to become
an important factor in games.
How computer games look today
WHAT YOU NEED TO RUN A COMPUTER GAME
An interesting thing is that most people don’t know that in order to play a computer game
you need to meet certain hardware requirements which are published by the developers of
the game.

Example of system requirements for a computer game

• Minimum Requirements : The


absolute minimum hardware
requirements that your computer
must meet in order to play the game
at all.

• Recommended Requirements: If you


want a smooth and pleasant
experience then your hardware should
meet the recommended requirements.
The Big Three

GPU (Video Card) RAM CPU (Processor)


COMPUTER GAMES GENRES

ACTION

Action games emphasize physical challenges that require hand-eye coordination and motor skill to
overcome. They center around the player, who is in control of most of the action. Most of the earliest
video games were considered action games; today, it is still a vast genre covering all games that involve
physical challenges.

• Shooter games
• Fighting games
• Stealth game
• Survival games
In shooter games (or simply shooters), players use Fighting games center around close-ranged combat
ranged weapons to participate in the action, which typically one-on-one fights or against a small number of
takes place at a distance. equally powerful opponents, often involving violent and
exaggerated unarmed attacks. 
Stealth games tend to emphasize sneaking around Survival games start the player off with minimal
and avoiding enemy notice over direct conflict. resources, in a hostile, open-world environment, and
require them to collect resources, craft tools, weapons,
and shelter, in order to survive as long as possible.
ROLE-PLAYING

Role-playing games cast the player in the role of a weak character that grows in strength
and experience over the course of the game. By overcoming difficult challenges and/or defeating
monsters, the player gains experience points which represent the character's progress in a chosen
profession or class (such as melee combat or ranged magic spells) and allow the player to gain
new abilities once a set amount are obtained. Many RPGs contain an open world which is usually
populated with monsters, that allows access to more important game locations, such as towns,
dungeons, and castles. 

• Action RPG
• MMORPG
The action role-playing game or action RPG Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or
is a type of role-playing video game which MMORPG feature the usual RPG objectives of
incorporates real-time combat as opposed to completing quests and strengthening one's player
turn-based or menu-based. character, but involve up to hundreds of players
interacting with each other on the same persistent world
in real-time.
SIMULATION

Simulation video games is a diverse super-category of games, generally


designed to closely simulate aspects of a real or fictional reality.

• Life simulation games 


• Vehicle simulation
• Construction and management simulation
Life simulation games (or artificial life games) Vehicle simulation games are a genre of video
involve living or controlling one or more artificial games which attempt to provide the player with a
lives. A life simulation game can revolve around realistic interpretation of operating various kinds of
individuals and relationships, or it could be a vehicles.
simulation of an ecosystem.
Construction and management simulations (or CMS) are a type of
simulation game which task players to build, expand or manage
fictional communities or projects with limited resources.
STRATEGY

Strategy video games focus on gameplay requiring careful and skillful thinking


and planning in order to achieve victory and the action scales from world
domination to squad-based tactics.

• Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)


• Real-time strategy (RTS)
Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a genre of In real time strategy games players will have to make
strategy video games in which each player controls a their decisions and actions within the backdrop of a
single character with a set of unique abilities that constantly changing game state. Real-time strategy
improve over the course of a game and which gameplay is characterised by obtaining resources,
contribute to the team's overall strategy. Players work building bases, researching technologies and producing
together as a team to achieve a victory condition units.
which is to destroy the opposing team's main structure
whilst protecting their own.
SPORTS

Sports are video games that simulate sports. This opposing team(s) can be
controlled by other real life people or artificial intelligence.

• Racing
• Sports games
In racing games one competes against time or Sports games emulate the playing of traditional
opponents using some means of transportation. physical sports. Some emphasize actually playing the
sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the
sport.
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER GAMING

• With the popularity of computer games, the social health and economic consequences of
playing them have become a concern. One argument is that it leads to unhealthy life
styles, waste of time and economic resources and violent, aggressive and antisocial
behavior and they have been seen as negatively affecting the players in terms of lack of
social skills, inefficiency, obesity and laziness.
• Another view is that it provides relaxation and skills while digital game-based learning
enhances student engagement. Such as involves in problem solving planning, estimation
and analysis of the moves or actions of opponent. This affects the player positively by
developing in him/her problem-solving skills, analytical and estimation skills and quick
decision-making.

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