Introduction
You have been selected to compete in the Major League Gaming Tournament randomly. You have never had any experience with gaming or even thought of being a gamer before. You must find the algorithms and combinations to the games that they may have you play. You will also have to read about gaming because you have never even picked up a game controller except for the on that they sent you in the mail as an invitation. Good luck.
Task
Activity 1: Reading
Activity 2: The Coding
Activity 3: Learning
Activity 4: Art
Activity 5: Physical Activity
For the reward you would recieve 1,000,000 dollars special given to you by "Doctor Evil"
Process
Activity 1: Reading
Click on the link below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game
Read the article and answer 5 questions about the article below mentally
1. What are the electronic systems used to play video games know as?
2. What was gaming behind in the U.S. entertainment market?
3. What do some theorists categorize video games as?
4. As of 2015 how many U.S. dollars did video games generate?
5. Does the game controller vary across game platforms or just stay the same?
Activity 2: The Coding
Click on the link below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_programming#Development_process
Before you read the article think mentally about how hard it would be to code a video game and how this would help you in the gaming tournament.
After you have read the article, you may answer a few questions about the math and process of game coding mentally.
1. What are game development programs generated from?
2. Can source code be developed by some text editor programs?
3. What are some of the most popular languages other than C++?
4. This information can help you cheat or sound smart at the game tournament, what are you going to do with this info?
Activity 3: Learning the Controls
The tournament you have been selected to be in is playing a series of games however you do not know what game system they are going to be played on other than they are using current gen consoles like Xbox One, PS4, and any gaming pc that sponsor them.
Just to be safe, you are going to research on the controls of all current gen consoles.
Here are some pictures of the controllers below.
Click on the link below for more pictures of the controllers.
https://pixabay.com/en/photos/game%20controller/
Instead of reading an article, you're going to simply guess what some of the controls do mentally, there are no wrong answers.
1. What does the A button do on the Xbox controller?
2. What does the X button do on a PS4 controller?
3. What do you think the O button does?
4. What do you think the Square button does on the PS4 controller?
5. Do you think the O and the B button perform the same action on both consoles PS4 and Xbox?
6. What do you think the Y button does on the Xbox?
7. Do you think that the Y and the triangle button perform the same action on both the PS4 and Xbox?
Activity 4: Art
You now also have to research on game art, the art that is in the game, concept game art, and some popular games that offer good art.
You are researching the games art so you will sound smart when they ask you what you think of the art.
copy and paste the codes below into your address bar.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M8c38d12318c7ec25d5e8cce9e4ec7206o0&…
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mf34dde26f81d6a22294c3d9264e5fc02o0&…
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me378ad5b3c716f55cb688e147de10fa2o0&…
Activity 5: Physical Activity
In the invite they have stated that they will have all contesants and guests participate in a physical activity.
They have also stated the activities.
The activities are tennis, basketball, and softball.