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Slide 2- History
Slide 3- Genres
Slide 4- Statistics about Genres
Slide 5- Males and Females on Videogames
Slide 6- Statistics about Gender
Slide 7- Console Screen
Slide 8- Game Developers
Slide 9- People Screen
Slide 10- Citations
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A Brief History about Videogames
It all started in the 1970s, introduced as a commercial entertainment medium, videogames created an important
entertainment industry for Japan, Europe and the United States. Gradually growing over two decades, videogames developed
into a 10 billion dollar industry competing with the motion picture industry
as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world.
Gaming Genres
Videogames are categorized into different genres based on their game play interaction. Much like the movie
industry, games hold a rating criteria for age, based on certain genres. While
some genres are more popular than others, for example sports games have a higher popularity percent than strategy games, gaming developers continue to create a
variety of styles to accommodate everyone's’ preference.
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Popularity of Genres
Action/Adventure
Sports
RPG
Suspense/Horror
Puzzle/Strategy
32%
29%
20%
17%
2%
Male and Female Gamers
A recent survey conducted by the Ipsos MediaCT for the ESA (Entertainment Software
Association) discovered that 40% of gamers are female and the
average age of a gamer is 35 years old. Women over 18 make up a
larger percentage of gamers than boys under 17 (33% to 18%). Other results indicated that 65% of US
households play videogames and 38% of US households own a videogame
console system.
Males vs. Females
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Game DevelopersSo what or who are
videogame developers?
A videogame developer is a business or an individual software developer that creates
games. Certain developers focus on specializing games for rivalry game system companies such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. The developers usually employ a team of programmers, game designers, artists, sound engineers and
producers. Once the game is complete it then gets published through the developer.
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CitationsCitationsWeb Sources:Web Sources:http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/esa-survey-malefemale-gamer-ratio-is-60http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/esa-survey-malefemale-gamer-ratio-is-6040-average-age-is-35/40-average-age-is-35/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_gameshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_gameshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genreshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genreshttp://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/statistics/videoghttp://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/statistics/videogames/video_game_content.cfmames/video_game_content.cfmhttp://zip-zapgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pong.pnghttp://zip-zapgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pong.png
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