Category: Roll a ball

Video Game Research

 

https://visual.ly/track.php?q=https://visual.ly/community/infographic/lifestyle/video-game-timeline&slug=communityinfographiclifestylevideo-game-timeline From Visually.

1967

Ralph Baer and his coworkers design the first videogame console that works on a standard television and call it “Brown Box”. They develop a chase game,allowing players to control two squares chasing each other on the screen. A toy gun is made and able to distinguish spots of light on the screen
1972

One of the earliest arcade video games, PonG, is a simple tennis game that became the First commercially successful video game

1972

The world’s first home video game console, the magnauox Odyssey, sold 330,000 units in it’s lifetime

1974

Gran Trak 10, the first racing arcade game, is released. It is the First arcade game to use ROM.

1974

Maze Wars is released. Considered to be the earliest fps

1976

Atari releases Breakout. The prototype was designed by Apple cofounders Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak. Blackberry’s current variant is called Breaker

1977

Atari opens the first Pizza Time Theatre, a video arcade pizzeria

1977

Atari releases the video Game Computer System Atari 2600 It is most successful video game console of its time

1977

nintendo releases a coloured tv game- Light tennis (Pong)

1980

Matterl releases the Intellivision video console; releasing a total of 125 games during it’s lifetime

1983

nintendo releases the Family Computer console in Japan and is later released in the United State as the nintendo Entertainment System: 62 million units sold

1983

Sega releases the SG-1000 to the Japanese market Finding only minor success

1985

nintendo releases the nES in the us. Super Mario Bros. is released and sells 10 millions copies before year’s end;eventually being the top selling video game until 2008 with 40 million copies sold

1986

Sega releases the sega master system as a competitor to the nES

1988

The Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in the US) is released.Sega’s most successful console sold 29 million units.

1989

nintendo releases the Game boy and is an instant success, selling 118 million world wide

Also Released Power Glove

1990

nintendo releases the Super Famicon (SnES), the best selling console of the 16-bit era sold 49 million units

1994

Sony releases the Playstation Console and is heavily influences the end of the cartridge; 125 million units sold

1996

nintendo releases the n64. The last significant cartridge based home console was released in colors, it sold 33 million units sold

1998

nintendo releases the Gameboy Color

1999

Sega releases the Dreamcast. Consider to be ahead of its time and the pioneer of online gaming,the Dreamcast sold 10.6 million units

2000

Sony releases the PS2; 138 million units sold and is the best selling console to date

2001

Microsoft releases the XBOX 24 million units sold

2001

nintendo releases the Gameboy Advance. With several different variants and colors, 81 million are sold.

2001

nintendo releases the Gamecube. nintendo’s First console to use optical discs; 21 million units sold

2004

nintendo releases the nintendo DS sporting a touchscreen and stylus

2005

Microsoft releases its second console, the XBOX 360

2006

The Sony Playstation 3 and the nintendo will are released just 8 days apart from each other both enter the 3 way console war

2009

nintendo releases the nintendo DSi and Sony releases the PSP Go.

 

Some of the most popular tech items in the market right now are mobile phones and virtual reality. these items have raised in popularity throughout the past 2 years because of all the new releases of iPhones, androids and all the different virtual reality headsets.

some of the new innovations that have come out are apple watches, new laptops, new phones and other things. these items are really popular because of the amount of people that buy these things. the virtual reality headsets have had a lot of impact on the marketplace because of the rising interest in virtual reality and augmented reality.

the different types of video game genres.

the different types of video game genres have developed over the year with new genres being created.

different genres include

1. Action Games

Platformer

Shooter

Fighting

Beat-em up

Stealth

Survival

Rhythm

2. Action-Adventure Games

Survival horror

Metroidvania

3. Adventure Games

Text adventures

Graphic adventures

Visual novels

Interactive movie

Real-time 3D

4. Role-Playing Games

Action RPG

MMORPG

Rouguelikes

Tactical RPG

Sandbox RPG

First-person party-based RPG

5. Simulation Games

Construction and management simulation

Life simulation

Vehicle simulation

6. Strategy Games

4X

Artillery

Real-time strategy (RTS)

Real-time tactics (RTT)

Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)

Tower defense

Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Turn-based tactics (TBT)

Wargame

Grand strategy wargame

7. Sports Games

Racing

Team sports

Competitive

Sports-based fighting

8. Puzzle Games

Logic game

Trivia game

9. Idle Games

Idle gaming

Casual game

Party game

Programming game

Board game/card game

Massive multiplayer online (MMO)

Advergame

Art game

Educational game

Exergame

Vince. (Apr 12, 2018). The Many Different Types of Video Games & Their Subgenres. Available: https://www.idtech.com/blog/different-types-of-video-game-genres. Last accessed 11th December 2018.

 

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these images consist of what i pick into my work. i used the unity app and a roll a ball walkthrough. i used the roll a ball walkthrough to create my roll a ball game. the walkthrough itself helped me successfully make the game up to a point where the game is playable through the unity launcher. people who have played my game has said the game looks simple but does what it needs to do. they said to add more colour into the game and to make the play area bigger with even more pick up items.
What Went Well:
what i think what went well was the fact that i made the game up to standard and without it bugging out on the first launch. i found the walkthrough helped me get the game running up to standard without any problems.
Even Better If:
i think that the game could been improved if i had gotten more colour put into the game or if i used screenshots to add more detail to my game and its colour. i also believe that if i added different shapes to the game it wouldve made it more interesting because of the game being about a ball picking up floating squares