How it all started?

From Vector Drawings, to hand drawn animation and now, Intense computer extensive graphical games, but how?

Right from the start...

Games, games platforms and systems have been around for nearly 6 decades due to the original creation of the game Pong, designed to be played on computer systems back in 1958. Since then developments have been within several gaming industries across the globe to develop and design the best games/technologies, leading up till the present day, where video gaming continues to grow rapidly. 

Until today companies are still creating ways of building and designing the next best generation of gaming machines, gaming technology and games to play. Since the 1950's the idea of playing games on a computer system had only just become a reality, although the need for sophisticated and complex systems they were then only able to achieve this. However today, we are able to play such as these on phones, hand held consoles and gaming systems with ease. 

This blog will be showing the features and limitations that older systems had compared to newer systems avaliable to us in the market today. I will be underlining what technologies broke through dramatically to create a world-wide gaming obsession millions of people have today.

Assignment 1

Gears of War 2 - Assignment 1

Understanding Game Platform Types

These are the pages and work I have completed for Assignment 1, I have looked at the development of systems throughout time, looking at the timeline of development for such systems as consoles, PC's and television. 

1. How the development started?
2. Timeline's for Platform development
3. Television's Features & Limitations

Assignment 2

Hardware for Gaming Technologies - Assignment 2

 

Understanding Hardware Technologies for Games Platforms

These will be the pages which will underline the information needed for the second assignment, I will be looking at the hardware requirements for gaming technologies. Such technologies I shall look at will be, Human Computer Interfaces, CPU's, Graphic Processors, Displays & Connectivity.

1. Human Computer Interfaces
2. The Central Processing Unit
3. The Graphics Processor

Assignment 3

Software Technologies in Games Development

The Software Technologies in Games Technologies and Development:

I will be looking at the software technologies which are used in gaming platforms & computers, describing and explaing in depth the use of operating systems, drivers, embedded language such as programming & application software. All of which are located in the links below:

1. Platform Dependancy between consoles
2. Operating systems across platforms
3. Drivers which are used in platforms and consoles
4. Application software and languages
5. Embedded languages and programming code
6. Graphical API and how its used
7. Sound API and how that is used as well
8. Television's conditional access

Reference links & Information is listed below:

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Assignment 4

Connecting and Configuring a console & PC

Connecting a Xbox 360 to a display:

I will be showing how to set up a console to a display and then connecting controllers & setting up a profile with Xbox live, I will explaining the stages in detail using imagery to add to what I mean. The first step is to show where the ports are which will be connected and used to power the console on.

Part 1 - Connectivity of the console -