Wednesday 18 November 2009

Entertainment Art

I would write about cinema, but I change my mind and decided to write about other kind of art in my opinion as a fan: The creation of games and famous characters.

Electronic games (or video games), attracts people of different ages all around the world.
Since the first game created, the teams responsible for development of games has been seeking to improve each year, to make the best game possible with the technology available in games, create new characters that sometimes are so successful that become symbols of their companies (who ever heard about Mario? And Sonic?) and develop successful games like The Sims, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.

The game market is so large that companies which develop games gain millions in sales, sponsorship and even doing contests where people 'addicted' to play,compete in various games trying to get the title of best player and earn a high cash value.The growth of this type of art, estimulated the expansion of a market oriented parallel to serve the young consumers of these games, as various brands of magazines specialized in evaluating how to play certain games, TV shows and documentaries talking exclusively from the world of games and their news, and employees who are paid to play! They do tests in the office 'having fun at work' on the games to pass to consumers what they thought about a game.

Creativity is the secret for the success, that´s the reason for the existance of games of all imaginable kinds. Games of all sports, games based on movies, based on cartoons, on personalities and in most cases, based simply on the creativity of the development team, that create action/horror games as the successful series of Resident Evil or a game completely fairytale as the Zelda series. There are also games that give rise to films such as Tomb Raider and Resident Evil

I love games, on the computer, the platform (video game), the arcade (fliperama) or at phone. The objective is always have fun. I´m putting the link to a video showing parts of the game Resident Evil 4, where you can see quality and particularly the competence of the designers of this game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEhtIqZ36jk

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