Abstraction in the Video Game (Flora)

Abstraction in the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf

In the reading Wolf clearly defined the difference between abstract (reduce it to the basic) and representation (to recreate). In the early video games the graphics are abstract but people can easily understand and use the controls. During that time because of technological limitation games are not as realistic and complex as today’s games.
The idea of Surrogate-base player- characters is interesting because even though the graphics are abstract and not realistic people could see themselves being represented by this object/image. The name of the video game also plays a very important role because the graphics in the games are limited, so one might not be able to tell what that specific object represents. For example in Space Invaders, one can tell by the name that the player would be under attack by a massive alien army. So in the game one would be able to see a mass of identical moving objects/images and assume that it represents the alien army. What is left is a single object/image that is different from the rest so the player assumes that it is him/her. It allows the player to make that connection unconsciously

Midterm Project
So far I have only found one game online that I would like to play. The game is call
Tactical Assassin What interest me about this game is that the graphics are very simple and the characters are stick figures. Even though the graphics are not as realistic as today's video game the plot draws the player in. The player plays the role of an assassin and he/she is given a mission to complete, the assassin is given informations about the target and the first priortiy of the mission. The way the assassin complete the mission is up to the player, and because the player is the assassin he/she must avoid being detected by guards.
here is the link to the game- under Arcade- look for Tactical Assassin

http://www.freeworldgroup.com/game.html

there are other similar stick figure games called Brain splatter2, stickman madness,and sift head sniper
here is the site for sift head sniper
http://www.stickpage.com/stickgames2.shtml#games