Development

Ok, so now it's time to further explore what it is that has really inspired me with this project. So far, we know that we want to make a video that introduces a brief history of video gaming with a contemporary, linear narrative. We have also briefly discussed the video games that we think we could plausibly include in this. If it were purely up to me, I think the contenders would be:

1980s:

• Pong
• Pacman
• Tetris
• Space Invaders

1990s:

• Street Fighter
• Doom
• Sonic The Hedgehog
• Super Mario Bros.

2000s:

• The Sims
• Football Manager
• Call of Duty
• Halo

Sonic's chaos emeralds: Well if it was worth a journey for him..?

I think that all of these games have some kind of iconography which we could realistically work into a real-life narrative. Whether it's a Chaos Emerald from Sonic, Mario's hat and moustache, Ryu of Street Fighter's headband, the first person viewpoint in Doom, I think it could be realistic. Whilst trying to cover various aspects and concepts used in these games, it will be important to maintain a sense of narrative, so we can't let some of the more difficult/questionable conventions get in the way. This may prove an obstacle when approaching something like Pong, which is so pixellated or from such a specific perspective that some improvisation may be best advised.