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2885_Cheerio_Future Canon Game – FarmVille
http://gamerboom.com/archives/3114, visited on 2010/10/2.
Introduction
FarmVille is a Facebook game developed by Zynga, which is the largest developer of social games with 27 million daily users and 93 million monthly users. FarmVille was launched in June 2009 and became so popular on Facebook. (http://www.mahalo.com/farmville) It is quite an intuitive multiplayer online game which people in any age group can play it without any troubles. It contains simple tasks such as plowing, growing, fertilizing, harvesting, for both crops and animals. And users are able to sell those crops and animals that they grow to get money for buying more expensive ones to be able to get level up and greater rewards. (http://www.sys-con.com/node/1084929)
http://opensecrets.pixnet.net/blog/post/28949893, visited on 2010/10/2
Graphic
FarmVille is 2D cartoon-looking game.
New Feature -- Auto Adjustment
The system will adjust different display levels for their graphics – high, medium or low, which depends on how many animals or crops are there in their farm, to make sure the application is running while there are many objects in the farm, the system will select the medium or low quality graphic for their farm.
For example while the graphic setting is at high level, however there are more than 300 items in the farm, then the system will adjust the graphic level to a lower level to meet the players’ system requirement to make sure their other applications are running well.
(Jake, 2010/04/13, http://farmvillefanatic.com/farmville-graphics-quality-auto-adjustment, visited on 2010/10/5)
The Game Play
Farmville is a game which requests friends interact with each other, growing their own farms and build anything they like to make their farm unique from other friends.
Configuration Requirement
Any device with internet connection, even the slowest one in the world will be able to play FarmVille.
9 Weeks’ Successful
“FarmVille demonstrates the huge market potential of social gaming in just 9 weeks the game has become a cultural phenomenon,” said Mark Pincus, founder and CEP of Zynga. “No other application has achieved what this game has in such a short amount of time. Who would have guessed that FarmVille is now the biggest online game in North America and quickly becoming the biggest online game in the world?” (http://www.sys-con.com/node/1084929)
Five Weeks’ Work
In fact, not only the achievement is coming so quick in such short amount of time, the making of FarmVille has spent only 5 weeks’ time, Amitt Mahajan gave a presentation about the development of FarmVille at GDC 2010. Talking about how the work has been done within 5 weeks:
l* They bring the developer into the design process at the beginning of the game development.
l* They give the developers as much power as the designers, which are different from other game development while the designers design everything for the game, and the developer just need to be worried about the development process.
l* They didn’t actually write all of the code in 5 weeks, they just “translated user input to the web server, everything else is off-the-shelf components. So the only thing that they need to concentrate on is only developing the game”.
l* Sleep. It’s important to get work done on time, but sleeping is even more important than anything else while there’s something required brain to work it out.
Statistics
http://mashable.com/2009/12/02/farmville-bigger-than-twitter/, visited on 2010/10/2
Through the statistic it is easy to see that FarmVille has gain nearly 10 million player per month. And it seems that the weekly active users are very steady from the 19th Jan up to 1st Feb, following with a dramatic growth for the users, same as the daily active users.
Also it reveals clearly that during different events that while FarmVille launch some special gifts for the users, there will be more users. Especially on the Earth Quake in Haiti event, FarmVille users donated more than $1 million by buying the gifts and Zynga gather the fund for the issue. And, for the Valentine’s Day as well, “FarmVille users sent more than 220 million Valentine’s gifts in 18 hours”.
(http://www.allfacebook.com/farmville-about-to-cruise-past-80-million-users-2010-02, visited on 2010/10/2)
Odd News on FarmVille
12-year-old boy spent 913 Pounds on FarmVille
A 12-year-old boy was found spending 625 pounds on his mother’s credit card and 288 of his own savings on Facebook game FarmVille. As his mum is thinking to get the money back, HSBC informed her that only when she “report her son to the police and obtained a crime number” then she will be able to get a refund for that money spent on her credit card. (Jill Insley, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 April 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook, visited on 2010/10/02)
HELP – My Wife Won’t Stop Playing FarmVille
This is a post from FarmVille Forum, the husband who’s writing this post saying that, his wife has invited by friend called Amy to play FarmVille on Facebook, while she is doing everything in the house, such as wash dishes, cook, laundry and take care of their daughter. However, after playing this game, she left her daughter along; always collect crops and animals on the farm, and ending up her husband found himself doing everything in the house, cook, wash dishes and laundry.
(Chad, 2010/08/14, http://www.farmvilleblogsite.com/159/help-my-wife-wont-stop-playing-farmville/, visited on 2010/20/05)
Famous Sentence from FarmVille
Remember, FarmVille is addictive! Play at your own risk!
(http://www.farmvilleblogsite.com/, visited on 2010/10/02)
Famous Voting Result
There’s a poll asking what will you do if you have only one minute in your life?
There are more than 70 percent people said they want to log into FarmVille and sell all their crops and animals for coins.
Does it look Familiar?
It was said that “If you’ve played Farm Town (another Facebook game) at any point in the past few months then you won’t need any education about how to use Zynga’s version of the game as it’s almost an exact duplicate”. (Nick O’Neill, 2009, http://www.allfacebook.com/zynga-farmville-2009-06, visited on 2010/10/6)
However, FarmVille does different from Farm Town which leads it to become a more successful game:
Firstly, FarmVille gives players a bigger chance to communicate and share their ideas with friends and families. FarmVille players are able to visit their friends’ farm, live next to their friends.
Secondly, FarmVille does not have the bugs that appeared on Farm Town, which attracts more people to play.
Thirdly, they spent a great amount of money on advertisement for FarmVille, for example, “on MySpace, they are reportedly spending $2 to $3 million on MySpace ads every month.”(Nick O’Neill, 2009, http://www.allfacebook.com/zynga-farmville-2009-06, visited on 2010/10/6) As well as Facebook, we can always see FarmVille ads placed on the sides of the webpage.
FarmVille is familiar to some of the existing games; however, it is more successful than any other games in the market. Even it is copying, copy in a smarter way, which is making an improvement.
Research on FarmVille (Questionnaire)
| 1. | Do you know “WOW”? |
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| 2. | Do you know “Facebook”? Do you have Facebook account? |
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| 3. | Do you know “Farmville”? |
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| 4. | Do you play “Farmville”? Why? |
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| 5. | Do you like Farmville? Why? |
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| 6. | Do you like WOW or Farmville better? |
Participant: 10 people Age: 18 ~ 30
Base on the answers on the questionnaire:
1. 40 percent of people don’t know “WOW”;
2. 100 percent people know “Facebook”; 10 percent of them don’t have Facebook account;
3. 20 percent of people don’t know “FarmVille”; 11.1 percent of people who know “Facebook” but have no idea about “FarmVille”;
4. 70 percent of people don’t play “FarmVille” because of studying; they said it’s time consuming; within 30 percent of those who play FarmVille, 20 percent of them quit.
5. 30 percent people like “FarmVille” because they can share their farming knowledge with their friends and have their own land where they can do whatever they like to decorate the big land. 100 percent of people who play FarmVille like it.
6. 40 percent of people like “WOW” better and 40 percent of them like “FarmVille” better, the other 20 percent of them either haven’t played “WOW” or “FarmVille” didn’t give comment.
Analyze those data from the questionnaire, World of WarCraft is one of the games that so many people are crazy about it is a Massive Multiplayer On-Line game, and FarmVille is a new Facebook game, however it gains similar reputation from the audience.
Something that leads FarmVille more a canon game is it is casual game and doesn’t required for downloading of anything while game like WOW will definitely require the player to download something.
Research on FarmVille (Interview)
Two people who have played FarmVille on Facebook before are sharing their experience below:
Interviewee 1:
Farmville is easy to learn how to play and create your own virtual farm, the times on Farmville as the same as real life so it gives a more realistic feeling, lot of people addicted to playing this game on Facebook.
Planting crops in the ploughed land, they will become harvestable in specific time, different level will be unlocked more different kind of crops, animals, declarations, buildings or land expanding. So that makes player desired to get high level to buy more items to decorate their own farm. Player may invite their friends to be neighbours and as well as giving them access to each other’s farm, they can also send message tag to neighbour’s farm and present free gifts.
Moreover, as all ploughed crops have to wait an amount of time which depends on the type of crop it become harvestable and after the crops are left for too long time, they will be withers and gets no money, even lost the cost money. That’s why, it makes player addicted to this game and keep checking their farm in case missing the harvest time then lost money. When you got a big amount of money from crops, you can started focus to decorate your farm, it just such as a small internal competition between other neighbours, to see who’s farm get more rich and growing faster.
At last, while you harvested more, it also means you can get higher XP and earn more farm cash; you can use those farm cash to get some luxury items from market. Base on the reward system, you will feel very happy to get rewards regardless if it is a compliment, money or some new items. As to play a free game to get rewards continually, it can be create very good feeling to players!
Interviewee 2:
FarmVille is awesome! I never like the game on PC before but this game is rock even you don’t like it, because you will feel like it is very hard to play but most of the functions are pretty easy to understand, also fun not boring. My level is up like 40 but I have to stop playing it because it takes so much of my time. If I have time I would love to spend whole day non- stop.
The reason that I play FarmVille is because I like the colors and functions of this game. I also like how they give us the extra point when we adopted the animals that were lost on the way. Also how we have the point when we spend money in the market. I like when we keep all the gifts and not spend it all. I like how the game creates the new stuff for in vacation like Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Valentine’s Day. I like when I get the gifts from my friends and I can keep it as long as I want. Not spoil gifts.
All the decorations are pretty much make me feel like it is the real life and we can grow vegetables and flowers, and harvest them on time so they will not become dry or dead and you will not lose the coins. We also can earn extra coins when we go and visit friends’ farm. You will get addicted to it because you will need to count the time when you need to harvest the crops and animals. And check frequently on the market what I can buy depends on which level I am up to.
What leads FarmVille to a Canon Game? / Why is FarmVille Such an Addictive/ famous Game?
It is quite easy to understand after all the statement mentioned above.
l* It is a user-friendly game. People within any age group are able to play this game without any difficulties.
l* Relaxing: The speed of everyday life has become faster and faster, people getting all the pressure and sense of urgency both from work and family. Being stressful in the work and taking care of family fill up their life. Playing FarmVille give them a chance to relax and have fun, and fill up the space that they haven’t got chance to catch up with friend, so they can just jump into FarmVille to interact with their friend and visit their friends in the game world.
l* Reward system: Firstly, the daily gifts: Users are able to send their friends gifts if they log in to the game everyday. And because they also want to get the gifts from others, so they will invite as many friends as they can to join this game and at least send the gift to them everyday. Secondly, any one who successfully invites one friend to play the game will be able to get a gift that normally won’t be able to purchase with the game coin, instead the real money. Thirdly, the coin: the most important item in this game is the coin, users do everything such as sowing, watering, planting and so on, they have a final goal, which is to sell their harvest to get the coin, some people can’t wait to get the coin from those harvest, they would like to use real money to buy the game coin in order to get some fertilizer for shorter time to wait, because normally if the plants or animals takes 10 hours to get mature for selling, it’s the same in the real life’s 10 hours.
Sometime, FarmVille will have kind of activity like asking you to do some simple tasks and award you with some animals or plants that are limited edition or normally that you need to pay real money for it. So people love to go to FarmVille everyday and check out whether they have this kind of activity, and for those players who log in FarmVille will also be awarded.
l* Competition: FarmVille players are competing with their friends, and every piece of news about their farm will be posted on the homepage of Facebook, players feel proud of themselves to have higher level and bigger farm than their friends, so they are willing to pay some real money for quicker bonus.
l* Unrealistic: Game is the tool for people to get relaxing, entertaining, and the most important aspect of game is doing something that is not easy or impossible to be done in the real life. FarmVille, providing players a chance to live with their friends (adding their friends as neighbors in the farm), a chance to own their own farm, a chance to upsize their land by just spend more time in front of computer , a chance to get richer than their friends by investing little money (buying the game coin to fertilize the crops).
l* Updated frequently, FarmVille will renew the special plants seed and animals in the market during some special dates.
l* Finally, it’s something about psychology, which I heard from an old psychologist, saying that, how people love something depends on how much time they spend on that object, the more they spend on it, the more they love and not easy to give up it. I think that’s the same for this topic, because people spend such a long time taking care of their farm, they decorate the place, it is not easy for them to give up such a thing that takes so much of their time, they can’t quit because they have already spent so much.
Conclusion
FarmVille is the one which is able to be the future canon game because it is a representative of Facebook game, a representative of casual game, and a representative of all aged game, which haven’t been done by any of the game in the list of canon game before. And the uniqueness of the game – sharing idea and experience within friends is a big selling point for FarmVille which will be widely copied by other games in the future.
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Introduction about game
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. It is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two upcoming expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void.
Set in the 26th century in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy, the game revolves around three species: the Terrans, human exiles from Earth; the Zerg, a race of insectoid genetic assimilators; and the Protoss, a species with vast psionic power. Wings of Liberty focuses on the Terrans, while the expansions Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void will focus on the Zerg and Protoss, respectively. The game is set four years after the events of StarCraft: Brood War, and follows the exploits of Jim Raynor as he leads an insurgent group against the autocratic Terran Dominion. The game includes both new and returning characters and locations from the original game.
The game was met with very positive reviews from critics, receiving an aggregated score of 93% from Metacritic. Similar to its predecessor, StarCraft II was praised for its engaging gameplay, as well as its introduction of new features and improved storytelling, while criticism targeted features that existed in the original StarCraft game but were removed in StarCraft II, such as the lack of LAN play and the decision to split up multiplayer regions.
Gameplay
"StarCraft 2" continuation of the "Starcraft" Terran, Protoss and Zerg three kind of the legion, the three very. StarCraft 2 keep a number of "StarCraft building, some branches have been given new skills, some branches to be eliminated or replaced. Old arms, upgrades and new branches of the shows up one by one.
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Game balance is "StarCraft," the classic mode, "StarCraft 2" keep the game balanced at the same time, each more new arms race, players familiar with the arms have also been adjusted. Similar to the game "StarCraft", the main focus of resources on gaming skills, the player with a collection of resources to build different buildings, the army and upgrade.
On the single campaign game mode, "StarCraft 2 " keep the story going on "StarCraft: Brood War," the history of adventure and intrigue from the StarCraft science fiction and a lot of new heroes are famous people In the battle to show their own unique charm. In addition, the global game by Blizzard Entertainment Platform Battle. Net for the players online game modes, and through some of the features of the enhanced and new features to make "StarCraft 2" to become competitive real-time strategy game.
Configuration requirements
Minimum:
System: Windows XP / XP64 (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista / Vista64 (service Pack 1), Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU: Intel Pentium IV 1.3GHz, AMD XP 1500 +
Memory: (Windows XP) 512mb, (Windows Vista) 1024mb, (Windows 7) 1024mb
Graphics: ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 Series or higher
HDD: 15Gb remaining
Environment: Windows DirectX9.0c
Recommended:
CPU: Intel Pentium D / AMD 64 X2
Memory: (Windows XP) 1024mb, (Windows Vista) 2048mb, (Windows 7) 2048mb
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT or higher
Minimum:
System: Windows XP / XP64 (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista / Vista64 (service Pack 1), Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU: Intel Pentium IV 1.3GHz, AMD XP 1500 +
Memory: (Windows XP) 512mb, (Windows Vista) 1024mb, (Windows 7) 1024mb
Graphics: ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 Series or higher
HDD: 15Gb remaining
Environment: Windows DirectX9.0c
Recommended:
CPU: Intel Pentium D / AMD 64 X2
Memory: (Windows XP) 1024mb, (Windows Vista) 2048mb, (Windows 7) 2048mb
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT or higher
That is a very high requirements for the computer. Not all the computer can run for it.
How to play
How to play against with the computer?
Start the game, Blizzard will be asked to enter account information. Once logged in, you can create or select a role. Blizzard will then enter the main interface. Click the top left of the multiplayer screen, you can choose the same play against the computer.
Next, create a game, click on the lower right of the interface to create multiplayer games, select the map, and then left-click interface to create games. Establishment of the game, the game will enter a new hall. Can click on the Settings button on the right side of the interface adjust the game settings, click on the screen button to adjust the position of the AI computer opponent AI. PC gamers can drag to the enemy's queue (if you want to 2V2 game, can retain a player's own computer), when everything is ready, you can start the game.
How to play against people?
Login into the account, select the upper left corner of the screen multiplayer mode, click the left button to find the game through the ladder system BETA choose your opponent. You can also find the game on the right button to select the preference map like the map.
Game Story Background
Zerg background
Zerg is a completely different human beings and the Protoss race. Their population is infected by them through the composition of the other race. Zerg rule in order to achieve the purpose of all these creatures, once infected, there is the rapid evolution of choice for the effective and lethal killing machine. Zerg do not need to use technology to make weapons, armor or spacecraft. Instead, these functions through biological adaptation and planned mutation and effective implementation. Even zerg buildings are also some near the nest continuously attached to the specialized function of the growth of the organs of the organism. When the zerg first arrived in Koprulu Star area, they from a collective consciousness of the Zerg - dominate the absolute rule. Dominate the low-level awareness of the body through a number of fundamental command of the Swarm in the actions of each Zerg. The first and most important link is the brain worm, each worm has been commissioned a brain insect groups directly control the size of a considerable part. The implementation of the host computer worm is a command, responsible for the field in the nest and most of the direct command and control of different insects. Although the primary purpose is to dominate the highly evolved to destroy the Protoss and absorb their genes race, but it is also found in humans but not yet developed the very useful things. Infection of a human with a strong psionic, Sarah Kerrigan, the dominant evolved a new and unique creature: the Queen of Blades. Al the time of the invasion when the master is destroyed the Protoss, Dark Templar Queen of Blades manipulated the rest of the living brain elimination of insects, and eventually dominated the insect group.
Zerg is a completely different human beings and the Protoss race. Their population is infected by them through the composition of the other race. Zerg rule in order to achieve the purpose of all these creatures, once infected, there is the rapid evolution of choice for the effective and lethal killing machine. Zerg do not need to use technology to make weapons, armor or spacecraft. Instead, these functions through biological adaptation and planned mutation and effective implementation. Even zerg buildings are also some near the nest continuously attached to the specialized function of the growth of the organs of the organism. When the zerg first arrived in Koprulu Star area, they from a collective consciousness of the Zerg - dominate the absolute rule. Dominate the low-level awareness of the body through a number of fundamental command of the Swarm in the actions of each Zerg. The first and most important link is the brain worm, each worm has been commissioned a brain insect groups directly control the size of a considerable part. The implementation of the host computer worm is a command, responsible for the field in the nest and most of the direct command and control of different insects. Although the primary purpose is to dominate the highly evolved to destroy the Protoss and absorb their genes race, but it is also found in humans but not yet developed the very useful things. Infection of a human with a strong psionic, Sarah Kerrigan, the dominant evolved a new and unique creature: the Queen of Blades. Al the time of the invasion when the master is destroyed the Protoss, Dark Templar Queen of Blades manipulated the rest of the living brain elimination of insects, and eventually dominated the insect group.
Protoss background
Has a highly developed technology and a powerful psionic Protoss who once considered themselves the most powerful race in the universe. But the war between the Zerg, has proved another point: even the most powerful warrior can not single-handedly overcome such a large number of enemies. The lesson is very difficult to make them acceptable because of their social system, the cornerstone of the philosophy of attachment has been shaken and there is no change in extension of the millennium. However, the Zerg on the Protoss home invasion Al has them race to a crossroads: If you want to survive and triumph, we must make changes. Now, new tactics and technologies of different insects have been introduced to combat the Jedi, and a group of people used to be the Protoss ancient prohibited weapons of mass destruction has been unfrozen. Protoss has a large population is not race, has always been based on various types of automated machinery to make up the number of operational deficiencies. Protoss single soldier has excellent fighting skills, while science and technology with the powerful combination of spiritual energy but also greatly improve their combat effectiveness. However, the Protoss have to use mobility to surprise the enemy in order to maximize their strengths and avoid being dragged into a war of attrition. Which, by their species by the combination of multi-ship fleet of the most terrible enemy firepower is enough to back into atomic form.
Has a highly developed technology and a powerful psionic Protoss who once considered themselves the most powerful race in the universe. But the war between the Zerg, has proved another point: even the most powerful warrior can not single-handedly overcome such a large number of enemies. The lesson is very difficult to make them acceptable because of their social system, the cornerstone of the philosophy of attachment has been shaken and there is no change in extension of the millennium. However, the Zerg on the Protoss home invasion Al has them race to a crossroads: If you want to survive and triumph, we must make changes. Now, new tactics and technologies of different insects have been introduced to combat the Jedi, and a group of people used to be the Protoss ancient prohibited weapons of mass destruction has been unfrozen. Protoss has a large population is not race, has always been based on various types of automated machinery to make up the number of operational deficiencies. Protoss single soldier has excellent fighting skills, while science and technology with the powerful combination of spiritual energy but also greatly improve their combat effectiveness. However, the Protoss have to use mobility to surprise the enemy in order to maximize their strengths and avoid being dragged into a war of attrition. Which, by their species by the combination of multi-ship fleet of the most terrible enemy firepower is enough to back into atomic form.
Human background
Star district human be Koprulu relatively new immigrants. Few centuries ago a group of opponents of the government as the Earth has been put into the general cargo ship launched into space immigrants had a very long expedition failed, the human is the descendants of these people. The expedition's survivors were eventually established three colonial planet is also the main human rights group of space: the federal government, Kel-Morian Union, Umojan protectorate. Corrupt and incompetent federal government in the Zerg invasion of the disturbances caused by a terrorist or a revolutionary vanguard of the Mengsk called overthrown. And now, the human Empire from the ashes of the old Federation was born, the only ruler from the Arcturus I, the rule. Humans have been forced to adapt to this most of the stars are extremely desolate area, they become the king of survival. Since neither do the highly developed science and technology support, nor to rely on strong physical, human army is a mixture of various units. Such as the Marine Corps from basic but effective man-though to a focus on armored battle cruiser, the human armored units with a reliable, powerful and numerous amount of firepower to maintain the front. Human army with bunkers and siege tanks in support of defense operations is to shine.
Star district human be Koprulu relatively new immigrants. Few centuries ago a group of opponents of the government as the Earth has been put into the general cargo ship launched into space immigrants had a very long expedition failed, the human is the descendants of these people. The expedition's survivors were eventually established three colonial planet is also the main human rights group of space: the federal government, Kel-Morian Union, Umojan protectorate. Corrupt and incompetent federal government in the Zerg invasion of the disturbances caused by a terrorist or a revolutionary vanguard of the Mengsk called overthrown. And now, the human Empire from the ashes of the old Federation was born, the only ruler from the Arcturus I, the rule. Humans have been forced to adapt to this most of the stars are extremely desolate area, they become the king of survival. Since neither do the highly developed science and technology support, nor to rely on strong physical, human army is a mixture of various units. Such as the Marine Corps from basic but effective man-though to a focus on armored battle cruiser, the human armored units with a reliable, powerful and numerous amount of firepower to maintain the front. Human army with bunkers and siege tanks in support of defense operations is to shine.
Special – Why is a cannon game
Units
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty features approximately the same number of units as the original game. Some units from the original game have returned, some featuring new upgrades and abilities. For example, the Protoss Zealot, a melee unit from the original game, now has the researchable ability to dash forward and quickly reach nearby enemies as a refinement of its speed upgrade from the original. Other units have been replaced or removed entirely. Other changes to unit design have been inspired by story events in StarCraft and its expansion, Brood War, replacing old units with new or renamed versions which sport different attributes and abilities.
Units in StarCraft II have new abilities, compared to the original, that encourage more complex interaction with the game environment. Among these are the inclusion of units that can traverse varying levels of terrain,or have the ability to teleport short distances.Some Protoss units can be warped into pylon-powered areas using the Warp Gate, a slight modification of an existing building called the Gateway.StarCraft II's campaign also has exclusive units which are only playable in the campaign and not in the regular multiplayer mode, though they are available for custom maps. These mostly consist of units which have been scrapped from development such as the Terran Diamondback as well as various returning units from the original StarCraft such as the Terran Wraith and Vulture.
In-game voice chat
Voice chat system in the "World of Warcraft" is often used as a tactical command with an important tool in the "StarCraft 2" will provide full support for voice chat system that allows players on the tactics to be more volatile during the war. Although it can not replace the current well-known voice chat software ventrilo and teamspeak, but its intention is free to download and install the player will be able to quickly get started.
Voice chat system in the "World of Warcraft" is often used as a tactical command with an important tool in the "StarCraft 2" will provide full support for voice chat system that allows players on the tactics to be more volatile during the war. Although it can not replace the current well-known voice chat software ventrilo and teamspeak, but its intention is free to download and install the player will be able to quickly get started.
Map Editor
From the classic Warcraft 2 to StarCraft, to Warcraft 3, map making organizations grow and progress. StarCraft 2 in the new map editor, will include all previous features. Players can even use Blizzard and tools to provide a variety of roles in the story mode to create a custom campaign.
Interface of the single player campaign
Through the map editor, are likely to be anything added to the game, players such as DOTA map and the future StarCraft 2 custom maps can be produced more easily, the new map editing features make special type of player to play mind games easier. 2 may be released after StarCraft soon have a similar map was produced DOTA because "StarCraft 2" in support of the hero units, although these heroes do not appear in the battle.
"StarCraft 2" unprecedentedly powerful map editor, paste in the blue, said Blizzard, Starcraft 2 Map Editor allows a unit with more attributes. BlizzCon 2009, Blizzard demonstrated by the "StarCraft 2" Ghost map editor to create the theme of the shoulder Nova shooter games, and called "The Lost Vikings," the vertical version of shooting game .
From the classic Warcraft 2 to StarCraft, to Warcraft 3, map making organizations grow and progress. StarCraft 2 in the new map editor, will include all previous features. Players can even use Blizzard and tools to provide a variety of roles in the story mode to create a custom campaign.
Interface of the single player campaign
Through the map editor, are likely to be anything added to the game, players such as DOTA map and the future StarCraft 2 custom maps can be produced more easily, the new map editing features make special type of player to play mind games easier. 2 may be released after StarCraft soon have a similar map was produced DOTA because "StarCraft 2" in support of the hero units, although these heroes do not appear in the battle.
"StarCraft 2" unprecedentedly powerful map editor, paste in the blue, said Blizzard, Starcraft 2 Map Editor allows a unit with more attributes. BlizzCon 2009, Blizzard demonstrated by the "StarCraft 2" Ghost map editor to create the theme of the shoulder Nova shooter games, and called "The Lost Vikings," the vertical version of shooting game .
E-sport support (Electronic Sports)
To promote the E-sport, for many important events, you can change with the needs of the ladder into the ranks can be customized model, and has confirmed that "StarCraft 2" has completed the process of video game tournament system, other software without the aid of the auxiliary Record game play.
To promote the E-sport, for many important events, you can change with the needs of the ladder into the ranks can be customized model, and has confirmed that "StarCraft 2" has completed the process of video game tournament system, other software without the aid of the auxiliary Record game play.
Battle. Net 2.0 features
Better on-line quality; games channel, both inside and outside the game chat; ladder rankings mechanism to prevent cheating; additional statistical data, you can see many different players battle each product-related information; advanced production mode; players will be able to own Set Avatars, pictures and icons; friends, blacklist feature management system; country support; auto race system; support "Diablo 3" expert mode.
The achievement system implementation
"Achievement System" will be added to the "Diablo 3" and "StarCraft 2" above, for example, "StarCraft 2" to 100 victories, the account information will be particularly different tags, which is the title of Rank and other similar concepts, the achievements of the newer systems have appeared in "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King" .
Better on-line quality; games channel, both inside and outside the game chat; ladder rankings mechanism to prevent cheating; additional statistical data, you can see many different players battle each product-related information; advanced production mode; players will be able to own Set Avatars, pictures and icons; friends, blacklist feature management system; country support; auto race system; support "Diablo 3" expert mode.
The achievement system implementation
"Achievement System" will be added to the "Diablo 3" and "StarCraft 2" above, for example, "StarCraft 2" to 100 victories, the account information will be particularly different tags, which is the title of Rank and other similar concepts, the achievements of the newer systems have appeared in "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King" .
About Cheating
Blizzard "World of Warcraft" learned a lot of server management operations related issues, they are trying to completely prevent any type of hacking program, cheats (for example, "Diablo 2" maphack map full program).
Blizzard "World of Warcraft" learned a lot of server management operations related issues, they are trying to completely prevent any type of hacking program, cheats (for example, "Diablo 2" maphack map full program).
Circulation collection - StarCraft 2 new resource acquisition mode. StarCraft 2 in the Farmers wait for mine problem does not exist, because the new wayfinding system and the reduction of acquisition time (1 to 4 clock, 2 of 3 clocks), which makes a double farmers circulation collection possible. Minerals through mutations in the number of farmers does not exceed 2 times, rarely occur for mining and wait for the situation of farmers. Two farmers just formed a collection cycle, it is the best and maximize the cycle makes the problems have been in Starcraft 2 is not so important, because two farmers mining cycle occurs when the minerals through mutations did not capture the time of farmers is very, very small. 1:2 Crystal / farmer ratio is StarCraft 2, which has the golden ratio. 8 points under the main base 8 can be worked out of a collection of 16 crystal when the farmer to optimize the efficiency, due to not being collected Shuijing Kuang time is very small. Continue to improve by increasing the number of peasants by the collection efficiency of crystal has been great as before the opening minutes when mine is more informed choices.
Interface of the game
Gas Field that has not been mentioned factors, Starcraft 2 for double-Gas Field, a mining 4,3 farmers capture efficiency is optimal when the mining cycle. Star 1 is a single Gas Field, a mining 8,3 farmers capture efficiency is optimal when the mining cycle.
Interface of the game
Gas Field that has not been mentioned factors, Starcraft 2 for double-Gas Field, a mining 4,3 farmers capture efficiency is optimal when the mining cycle. Star 1 is a single Gas Field, a mining 8,3 farmers capture efficiency is optimal when the mining cycle.
Sales
On August 3, 2010, Blizzard Entertainment announced that StarCraft II sold more than 1 million units worldwide within one day of its release. After two days (during which period Blizzard began selling the game as a digital download on its website) it sold approximately 500,000 additional units, bringing the total up to 1.5 million worldwide and making it the fastest-selling strategy game of all time.In its first month on sale, StarCraft II sold a total of 3 million copies worldwide.
Changes since StarCraft
Compared to the original StarCraft, StarCraft II was designed to focus more heavily on the multiplayer aspect, with changes that include major improvements to Battle.net, a new competitive "ladder" system for ranked games, and new matchmaking mechanics—designed to "match-up" players of equal skill level.In addition, the replay function, which allows players to record and review past games, was improved. Blizzard also stated they incorporated changes to the game that were suggested by fans.
StarCraft II continues its predecessor's use of pre-rendered cinematic cut scenes to advance the plot while also improving the quality of in-game cut scenes within the levels themselves, which are rendered on-the-fly using the same game engine as the graphics in the game proper. Blizzard states that with the new graphics engine that StarCraft II uses to render the gameplay, they "can actually create in-game cut-scenes of near-cinematic quality". Most Protoss and Terran units, and some Zerg units, have been shown on the StarCraft II official website, and in several video demonstrations held by Blizzard.Improvements include advanced scenery allocation and more detailed space terrain, such as floating space platforms with planets and asteroids in the background. Small cliffs, extensions, and even advertising signs were also shown to have been improved and refined
Battle.net new privacy settings
We want you to know about the Battle.net has been imported into the real-name system in the Real ID privacy choices that users can provide Real ID according to their preferences more tools to customize the service and open it to import "Real ID good Friends of Friends "option to increase the function of face book friends, or the Real ID feature turned off.
Real ID provides the real-name system and the players know and trust the real-world friends to keep in touch with the convenience of selective manner, regardless of whether they are playing "World of Warcraft," "StarCraft 2", or else we will in the future launch of the game. When you experience the game in progress, the "friends list shows the names of friends" and "increase the face book friends" and other features provide you with more choices and keep in touch with friends, making friends in the real world can be more easy to find each other on Battle.net. The official website by logging http://tw.battle.net account and the privacy settings, you can easily use or turn off these features.
We want you to know about the Battle.net has been imported into the real-name system in the Real ID privacy choices that users can provide Real ID according to their preferences more tools to customize the service and open it to import "Real ID good Friends of Friends "option to increase the function of face book friends, or the Real ID feature turned off.
Real ID provides the real-name system and the players know and trust the real-world friends to keep in touch with the convenience of selective manner, regardless of whether they are playing "World of Warcraft," "StarCraft 2", or else we will in the future launch of the game. When you experience the game in progress, the "friends list shows the names of friends" and "increase the face book friends" and other features provide you with more choices and keep in touch with friends, making friends in the real world can be more easy to find each other on Battle.net. The official website by logging http://tw.battle.net account and the privacy settings, you can easily use or turn off these features.
Overall for the lots of the special points, I believe that starcraft2 will be a cannon game.
References
Blizzard Entertainment: StarCraft II at Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft II at Battle.net
http://www.starcraft2.com
http://baike.baidu.com/view/957952.htm
http://www.blizzcn.com/
http://sc2.uuu9.com/
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%D0%C7%BC%CA2&fr=ala0
2534_Yolanda_Future Canon Game Report-- World of Warcraft
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Here is the link of my final report
http://yolandagameofmedia.blogspot.com/2010/10/future-canon-game-world-of-warcraft.html
Bad news about my second report
As we discussed in the class that Farmville will have the qualification to be one of the canon games...however after i did research...i found that farmville is actually coppying some other games....
I play one of the chinese version of farmville few years ago, and everyone enjoy it, me and my friends spend at least half an hour on that game, however, it is called HAPPY FARM in china, and I believe that HAPPY FARM is a lot earlier than FARMVILLE. so....according to that, I search about that topic, I found that farmville is actually copy some other existing game, which is farm city or whatever on facebook long long times ago, and the time that chinese people got there HAPPY FARM is actually similar to the time when facebook have its farm city.....i couldnt remember the name though....but....it is copying...although some people was say that HAPPY FARM is more like a game for people to interact with their friends where FARMVILLE is like a game that people make their farm more beautiful and compare to other friends, but, they. are. the. same. thing. as i played both of them and still playing at the moment.....
one of the article that i found on this COPPING topic...
is.
check this out:http://www.inquisitr.com/84355/farmville-boss-i-dont-fing-want-innovation-just-copy-your-competitors/
2481 Sarive - Cannon Game Report "DOOM"
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Origin
FPS - First Person Shooter, as one of the most recognized and accepted video game genre, it was considered appeared in 1974 with the very first FPS game "Maze War".
Maze War originated the basic concept of its kind: player see through controlled character's eye wander through a maze and defeat enemies by shoot a gun-like type weapon.
And what maybe surprise you is that in this game, which released in 1974, the designer already involved some "Player Versus Player" elements into it, you could shoot another player who is seen as an eyeball.
Predecessor
On May 5 of 1992, a game shocked the entire industry.
Wolfenstein 3D, developed by the later widely-known "id software" for MS-DOS. If "Maze War" provided the concept, then "Wolfenstein 3D" is the archtype or demo of whole FPS genre games built later.
The Protagonist "William B.J Blazkowicz" is a captured American soldier who is trying to escape from the Nazi stronghold of Castle Wolfenstein. In Wolfenstein 3D, Player could revive thier "Health Point" by inject "Medical Kit" they collected, and player is offered three different types of weapons to use, each weapon has its unique firepower and ammunition.
Another feature of Wolfenstein3D is more types of enemies, player will engage different types of enemies in game progression, in each stage there is a different enemy placement. And, most important, this game has Boss! In each episode there is a Boss enemy who is totally unique and tougher than all common enemies, player must defeat the Boss in order to complete the final mission of current episode.
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Another advantage Wolfenstein 3D made is designer had placed numbers of "Hidden Room" inside game area, contain various treatures and supplies.
Wolfenstein is released as a one episode shareware, consisting of ten missions. In the commercial release version there are six episodes, all consisting of ten missions as well.
id Tech
Right after development of Wolfenstein 3D, id software moved on a new project what is known as "DOOM" nowadays. During the developingof "DOOM", id software applied various of new techniques, and what all these effort came up with is the famous game engine "id Tech", also known as "DOOM Engine".
Doom's most outstanding feature that made it a cannon game is its realistic and dynamic 3D graphics, compared to Wolfenstein 3D, Doom engine's advantages could be summaried within several reasons list below( refered from Wikipedia):
"Height differences – all rooms in Wolfenstein 3D have the same height;
Non-perpendicular walls – all walls in Wolfenstein 3D run along a rectangular grid;
Full texture mapping of all surfaces – in Wolfenstein 3D, floors and ceilings are flat colors;
Varying light levels – all areas in Wolfenstein 3D are fully lit at the same brightness. This contributed to Doom's visual authenticity, not to mention its atmosphere and gameplay. The use of darkness to frighten or confuse the player was nearly unheard of in games released prior to Doom.
In contrast to the static levels of Wolfenstein 3D, those in Doom are highly dynamic: platforms can lower and rise, floors can rise sequentially to form staircases, and bridges can rise and fall. The lifelike environment was enhanced further by the stereo sound system, which made it possible to roughly determine the direction and distance of a sound effect. The player is kept on guard by the grunts and growls of monsters, and receives occasional clues to finding secret areas in the form of sounds of hidden doors opening remotely. As in Wolfenstein 3D, monsters can also become aware of the player's presence by hearing distant gunshots.
Carmack had to make use of several tricks for these features to run smoothly on home computers of 1993. Most significantly, Doom levels are not truly three-dimensional; they are internally represented on a single plane, with height differences stored separately as displacements. (A similar trick is still used by many games to create huge outdoor environments). This allows a two point perspective projection, with several design limitations: for example, it is not possible for the Doom engine to render one room over another. However, thanks to its two-dimensional property, the environment can be rendered very quickly, using a binary space partitioning method. Another benefit was the clarity of the automap, as that could be rendered with 2D vectors without any risk of overlapping. Additionally, the BSP tree technology created by Bruce Nailer was used.
Another important feature of the Doom engine is its modular data files, which allow most of the game's content to be replaced by loading custom WAD files. Wolfenstein 3D was not designed to be expandable, but fans had nevertheless figured out how to create their own levels for it, and Doom was designed to further extend the possibilities. The ability to create custom scenarios contributed significantly to the game's popularity."
DOOM
Of course, "DOOM" isn't just about graphics. From Maze War's concept, to Wolfenstein 3D's demo, now, here comes DOOM, the typical template of all FPS games ever made from 1993 to now.
Main theme of DOOM is science fiction/horror, what remind you of that?
Half Life? F.E.A.R? Dead Space? Bioshock? Too many?
Yes, just as DOOM itself, the sci-fi horror theme has also become a typical template of FPS, for it both keep players in a high tesion and throw them into the imagine game world.
In DOOM, player take the role of a nameless marine who acts as a security in a Mars teleportation experiment base, one day the teleportation experiment opened the gate between Hell and our world, demons came out killing everyone in base, your task is fighting out a way from the entire legion of hell to prevent them attacking your hometown Earth.
For player's satus, armor and ammunition-carrying capacity is added besides the health point, and various power-up items are provided as well: power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( active berserk mode, allowing player to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with fist and potentially splattering former humans and imps), supernatural blue orbs (named soul spheres in the manuals) that boost the player character's health percentage by 100%, up to a maximum of 200%, computer maps ( show up whole area of current level), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allows the player to survive in toxic acids.
Objective of each level is escaping, there are special looking doors that marked with exit sign every level, what player need to do is simply surviving all hazards and enemies to make out the door.
What indeed remarkable is the weapon system, the available weapon in DOOM is way too high compared to its competitors: 10!
Start with a pistol and a pair of brass knuckle, player could gain chainsaw, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, plasma rifle, and the invincible BFG 9000. Different from Wolfenstein 3D, every weapon list above actually IS different, from different outfit, firepower and enemy feedback, player could recognize that "This is a shotgun!". Another great detail is that when you played Wolfenstein 3D, you will find that whatever happened to William, standing, running, get hit, his hands stays in the same position forever, which makes player sometimes feel like they are floating. But in DOOM, player character's hands will keep moving when player give different orders.
WADs
DOOM's greatness didn't over yet, as many players said "Success of Starcraft is half depends on its great editor", the first giant fan-made mod community is created by DOOM.
That is "DOOM WADs".
DOOM WADs are package files for Doom and Doom II, that contain sprites, levels, and game data. WAD stands for "Where's All the Data?". Just after its release in 1993, DOOM attracted a sizeable following of players who created their own mods for WAD files.
First level editor appeared in 1994, additional tools have been created that allow most aspects of the game to be edited. Besides the original WADs contained custom levels, other new monsters and resources could be imported, and make a completely different game.
Summary
As one of the most significant milestone in whole electrical game industry, DOOM populized the great FPS and spawned its own game subculture.
DOOM was voted the "No.1 game of all time" in a poll among over 100 game developers and journalists conducted by GameSpy in July 2001, and PC Gamer proclaimed DOOM the most influential game of all time in its ten-year anniversary issue in April 2004, and named it the second best game of all time a year later (number one was Half-Life). And finally GameTrailers listed DOOM as No.1 Breakthrough PC Game. In 2009, Game Informer put DOOM 6th on their list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", saying that it " the genre the kick start it needed to rule the gaming landscape two decades later".
There is no reason for us not to put such a game as a cannon one.
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What makes a cannon game? Through my game play of Myst I found out and uncovered why this game was so important and how it affected the gaming industry and im sure after reading through my report on how and why it is so important to computer gaming you too will understand what made Myst so important and why that it deserves to be classified as a cannon game.
Myst created by Cyan Worlds a video game company founded by Rand and Robyn Miller. It been said that Myst puts the Myst in Mysterious Island a book that the Miller brothers quote as being the some of the inspiration behind the game and title “Myst was simply a working title that came from Jules Verne's Mysterious Island”[1] as stated by Rand Miller. But for me my first thought about the game was more like Myst puts the MY in MY GOD WHAT THE HECK AM I MEANT TO BE DOING, from the first scene I was lost and confused what was required of me, no menu bar, no interface, no objective message, just a mouse courser and a screen shot.
The only hint of story is a short intro movie at the start that hints at books being lost, but really it just made me more confused. After all Myst was from 1993 a time when I can remember playing games like ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’, ‘Super Mario’ and ‘Doom’ games of that era were very much plug and play, you would put the game in have an intro and start playing it was very simple time for games, you knew straight away what you needed to do in the game whether it was collecting coins or blasting away monsters. So I figured Myst would follow this standard, I thought once the game started it would all become more clear and I would have some sort of objective but no I was wrong. For the first 30 minutes of game play I just found myself clicking on the screen with no clue or any idea just trying to get a reaction from the game, the only thing I found out during this time was the game is set on a an island with different buildings scattered across it, after all Myst is a ‘point and click’ graphic adventure game, the kind of game that requires you to click the screen to either move somewhere new or to get a response off something like all the switches, buttons, levers and other various objects on the island. For me I was trying to click on something that would give me some sort of story about the game and so I can try to unravel this mystery of the books. Oddly this form of clicking interaction was something the Miller brothers had intended for a children’s game “A child would turn the page, click on items on each page, and those items would react in certain ways” [2] which Robyn Miller explained in the making of Myst. But it wasn’t until they made Myst did there theory clicking and then some sort of reaction in the game come to life. And the result was a much more dynamic then they had intended for there child’s game.
After having the search around the island for clues I still didn’t even who I was in the game am I playing myself, am I someone else? If so how and why am I on the island. But no nothing I didn’t receive any help from the game it was clear this game was not meant to be taken lightly and if you weren’t prepared to think and pay attention you weren’t going to progress anywhere in the game. Something that games of the time didn’t really offer players, games were seen for children but this game was intended to challenge even the best puzzle gamers. I decide to go back to the start, but this time move more slowly paying more attention, after all Myst did bring a 3D world to a 2D format by building the Myst island in a 3D world and then taking 2D bitmap snapshots and placing them into the game, when ever the player clicked to move somewhere the game would just cycle through the 2d images to make appear as though the player was moving through this virtual world. “Nintendo would later use this technique to great effect in Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo.” [3].
So I figured these fantastic graphics the game provides must be for a reason, besides just for cosmetic look. It didn’t take long on my journey back to the starting point on the island, I noticed a piece of paper on the ground, I click it and a letter opens up it tells me to go to the dock, go into the secret room and enter a code to see a message. I couldn’t help but kick myself for missing this the first time as it was so close to the start, but here it was my first puzzle to be solved, my first objective, something to aim to complete some sort of direction that I had been craving.
The letter says I need to enter the number of beacon transmitters on the island into the pad to receive the message. I reach the secret room and there’s a big well looking object in the middle but no pad? I find the pad under neath a piece of paper on the wall. I can see this game isn’t going to offer me anything easy. I enter the number into the pad, which was hidden under a piece of paper on the wall and then check out the well, a video appears and it is where I met Atrus the creator of the books and he has hidden his books, suspecting one of his sons wants to destroy them. First clue solved and im now starting to understand what is happening Erik Davis said “The puzzles thereby serve as the perfect metaphor for the unveiling of the hidden mysteries of the land.”[4] I have to agree with this metaphor as it wasn’t until I solved my first puzzle did begin to learn something about the islands story, and I think this is something which compelled many players to play Myst and why is was so successful being the number 1 selling computer game until sims, to find the story you must solve the puzzles, this complex structure something that challenged the players was very refreshing and unique game play of the time. The fact even after 17 years the game is still just as challenging is a compliment to the Miller brothers, many old games become easier after time but for a game to still hold itself even after so long is a true achievement.
Atrus tells me to check out the library and I do, i find a few me hints and clues as to what I need to do next. I decide to check out the log cabin, with a gas furnace and a safe, I turn on the gas but no fire. I open up the safe find matches and light the fire. That leads me to one of the best things about the game are the sound affects that are in it, from wind blowing when you up high, or birds chirping when walking through the trees to the fire crackling in the furnace. Chris Brandekamp a friend of the Miller brothers was the sound engineer on the game and one of the hardest tasks for them was creating these real sounds affects, to make the player feel as though they are in a real place. Often the sounds in real life when recorded would not sound how they were meant to be which meant the Millers and Chris had to find strange ways to record these sounds “the sound of fire in a boiler was created by driving over the gravel in the Miller brothers’ driveway. “ [5] and even the bubbling of water was made by “sticking a large tube into a toilet and blowing into it!”[5]. It was these lengths the Miller brothers and Chris went to create the most authentic and realistic fantasy island/ worlds possible.
I couldn’t help but be amazed at how Myst had combined the graphics with the music and sound affects so well to create this amazing atmosphere within the game and it certainly set a new standard on how good a game could look and feel. But how was this possibly and why weren’t other games doing this? One simple reason. And the reason why is possibly how Myst had the biggest impact on the gaming industry and it was because of the CD. They were one of the first games to use Compact disk drives to deliver there game. They were the first to take full advantage of the larger memory space on Cds, something that rivaly games on floppy disks and cartridges couldn’t compete with. It meant Myst was able to use such beautiful graphics and much larger variety of sounds. The games popularity gave a huge rush for CD drives which at the time had to be bought separate from computers. The fact the game was so popular and that almost everyone who owned a computer had bought a disk drive to play Myst, it meant that future games could now take advantage of the CD to make there games. From then on the conversion to CD become much more abundant with games and as you can see now a days all games are on CDs which if it wasn’t for Myst may have taken a lot longer.
Its not hard to see the importance Myst played to computer gaming, from the use of 3D rendered images to create picture perfect visuals, to the use of realistic sound affects the kind of thing at the time only used in movies, to original music soundtrack and the fact that it brought and was able to utilise the CD for gaming, there was no other option but to class MYST as a cannon game. It for ever changed how games were presented through visuals and audio and the way in which we received our game through CDs.
[1] http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/269/
[2] http://www.nowgamer.com/features/224/the-making-of-myst?o=0#listing
[3] http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0924
[4] http://www.techgnosis.com/index_myst.html
[5] http://mystolgia.angelfire.com/myst.htm
