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Netflix's 'High Score' is as engaging as its topic: 1980s video games
A flow state, as coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , occurs when a person is so fully absorbed by an activity, time itself moves faster. The hours just slip away.
According to the creators of Netflix’s new docuseries High Score, this is exactly the kind of experience video-game designers have always strived to create for players.
It’s also the kind of experience they wanted to create with High Score , whose six 40-minute episodes are so immersive and engaging, viewers may be shocked to reach Game Over so quickly.
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Sam Glassenberg, CEO of Level Ex , dodged the family business of medicine and went into video game design. But his path led him right back to the world of medicine
"All of this came to a head in 2012 when my father, who is an anesthesiologist, finally gave up and said 'All right Sam, you're not going to medical school. It's too late. So at least put this game silliness to good use and make me a game to train my residents to do a fiber optic intubation."
Researchers launch video game exploring the effects of confinement
For CDH scientist and UNIL Gamelab researcher Yannick Rochat, an expert in game studies and digital humanities , a narrative video game seemed like a natural medium for exploring these questions, and how different people struggle to respond to them in different ways.
"Video games can convey information as well as emotions. The idea behind this game is to have a testimony to this period in history that has impacted us all. For a newspaper like Le Temps and for a researcher like myself, it is important to document and keep an account of these experiences," he says.
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After a Flop, Amazon Makes Another Foray Into Video Games - The New York Times
BERKELEY, Calif. — Amazon stumbled as it worked to break into the lucrative video game industry. Now it's trying again.
On Monday, Amazon announced Prime Gaming, which is essentially a rebranding of its Twitch Prime service that provides exclusive game content. Just over a month ago, the company pulled its original big-budget game, Crucible, from digital store shelves after it was panned as a "hollow and forgettable experience."
Larry Plotnick, Prime Gaming's director, said the gaming service started in 2016 with Twitch's name attached because it was well known among gamers. But he said Amazon now believed that its own name carried significant weight.
Netflix's 'High Score' Wants You to Know Video Games Are Art - The Ringer
The six-part docuseries excels when focusing on the visual elements of games and the narratives around their creation, but largely skips past the programmers that made early titles sing
In one episode of the series, former Sega designer Hirokazu Yasuhara says, "People tend to think games are a solitary activity, but the game designer is always there behind the screen." High Score brings designers to the surface. Some designers, at least: Six episodes and roughly four hours isn't enough time for a comprehensive history of the emergence of a medium.
How video games are joining the fight to save the planet
As bush fires were raging across Australia in December 2019, players of Space Ape video games reached out to the company and asked what they could do to help. The London-based firm quickly put an in-game purchase into several of its mobile titles, with all proceeds going to either a wildlife or humanitarian charity working in the area.
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"That just speaks to how much people want to do good," said Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, former Head of Content at Space Ape Games, who now runs her own consultancy focused on using games for social impact.
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