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Assignment 2: Abstraction and the Video Game

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Space Invaders

When reading the article, I thought of the game I played last week, Space Invaders, and my childhood favorite game, Donkey Kong Country. The difference between these games are that DK has better graphics than the other but in actual intereaction of how I would play the game. I found that these games are in two separate categories. One is only player interaction with the game, and the other is player interaction with the background being unmanipulated. Seeing it this way, I found that the real difference between these games are that one is representational and the other is abstract. Over time the games would have to have evolved and that is exactly what Mark Wolf writes in the reader. He compares the games to art and how they evolved from being abstract to representational.

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