New Media

New media is a condition we all have to respond to. There is always a constant stream of new media evolving every day. Although there is a pressure surrounding it, because there is always something better around the corner, you can do anything you want with it. It’s exciting to live in a world like this. Everybody now has a mobile phone with a camera as standard, a few years ago that wouldn’t have been the case. I expect that in a couple of years time everybody’s phone will have internet access as standard too.

In the lecture Bill then went on to talk about the comparison of new media in video games and films. Films evolved over time by creating suspense and using different angled shots to make them more entertaining and personal to the viewer. Video games, on the other hand still have a fundamental problem with them. There is only two types of game that work, one that that is a repetitive addictive game and the other that is a narrative. The problem with a repetitive game is that it is all game play, whereas a narrative has limited game play and no replay value. Although video games need a solution, it cannot be a similar solution to films because you can’t interact with a film, that is what gives it more power. A game, I think, would be best if it was just like a film but you have the ability to interact with it, sort of like the Sims?