Video Games: The Movie

• What are some of the reasons video games were successful? What makes a game popular?

There are few reasons why video games were successful and what makes them popular. I would say the reasons would be the play style of the game, the story of the game, the graphics of the game, and more. If the community likes the game and spreads some love about it, as they hear more things going on about that certain game, then more and more people would try the game and it would make it popular. At least that's what i think.

• What are some of the reasons why the video game industry crashed in the 1980s?

Back in the 1980s a huge video game industry crash happened. Why? because before video game companies were really successful which sold out a lot of game consoles and games, Atari being on of the biggest company to be made. However, many people were complaining about playing the same thing over and over again, and at the same time people started to get bored. In return many companies started rushing out games, including the "Worst Game to be ever made" the ET game, which was associated with the movie itself ET and many copies of it were dumped.

• Do you think video games are a form of art? Why or why not?

What is Art?, "something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings".In other words, video games are a form of art. Why? because; in video games models, backgrounds, characters, objects, music, audio, and more, are made through the imagination of the person who is in charge of each different roles. For example about music and audio on cutscenes on a video game, sometimes cutscenes have deep meaning, they often require music and sound effects to make the mood on the scene better. Without them the scene wouldn't have an effect on the players and it would be pointless and boring, It wouldn't be able to express it's impression on the players. Art takes up in different forms in video games, just like what I've wrote characters, designs, backgrounds, and etc. are form of art. At least that's what I think.

• What is the next evolution in video games? What are the challenges that need to be solved in the next generation of games?

I would guess that in the future the evolution in video games would be, where players would be able to interact inside a video game. As if it was like Virtual Reality we have today, but way more realistic as it would feel like you're in real life but really inside a video game. 

I think that there would be a lot of challenges/issues that would need to be solved in the next generation of video games. Although I'm so sure what kind of challenges they would face or encounter. Because right now I don't really know anything that much about programming games, But what I think is it would be tough to solve a certain challenge or issue about a video game.