After going through all the readings for this weeks blog, I learned so much as was fascinated by so many different things. I have also come up with some of my own conclusions with gaming and the world that associates with them.

In the video on youtube with Jane McGonigal on TED, one of the first statements that stuck with me was the fact that we, gamers, spend three billion hours a week playing video games. And yet, this ridiculous amount of time spent gaming, McGonigal says is not enough. It made me think about what could I possible do for that amount of time a week. I cannot imagine playing video games. I found it interesting, in her comparison that the gaming world and the benefit of playing these video games helps us, in the real world, to solve our problems. It is a simulation of solving real world problems is like solving problems in the game world. I could not understand how this could happen because there is always a solution in the gaming world somehow, no matter how many times you die. In the real world, there is only one life and sometimes no solution to the immediate problem. She also goes on to talk about how it is better in the gaming world than in real life, and you can achieve more in games. Like I said before, with having more than one life in the game world, allows gamers to achieve more than they could in the real world. Due to this gamers have more than one try at making something of their character on a game, whereas in the real world you have many tries to achieve something but you are what you make yourself.

In the text by Robert Ebert’s “Video Games can never be art” compares video games to prehistoric cave paintings or in modern terms they were called chicken scratch. My own conclusion on this idea is that the graphics on some of the video games today are unbelievable and so realistic looking while playing. Therefore, I believe that the video games are evolving. It began with the basics on the sega and Nintendo and Nintendo 64 then the Playstation, Playstation 2, playstation 3, xbox, xbox360, and the wii etc. each one has even better graphics in their games and as games are released the graphics are seemingly more realistic than the last.