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遊戲分類(2/5) • Game Types: – – – – RPG (Role playing games) AVG (Adventure games) RTS (Real-time strategy games) FPS (First-person shooting games) RSLG (這種遊戲則是角色扮演遊戲與戰略遊戲的混合體) STG (射擊遊戲) Sports Action Puzzle games Table games TCG (養成遊戲) MMORPG (Massive Multiple Player Online Role Playing Games) Etc…. .

History of Computer and Video Game (1/7) • 1970 s – First Generation A simulation of Tennis Console: Coleco Telstar PONG arcade version

History of Computer and Video Game (2/7) • 1970 s~1980 s – Second Generation

History of Computer and Video Game (3/8) • Why Japan dominates the home console market ? • Video game crash of 1983 – the crash of the video game industry and the bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America • Causes – Effect of home computers (Europe: buy computer) – The flood of products (low quality) – A savage price war (computer price down) • Effect - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

History of Computer and Video Game (4/8) • Third Generation – 8 -bit era – It was in this time that home game systems were first labeled by their "bits".

History of Computer and Video Game (5/8) • Fourth Generation – 16 -bit era – 2 -dimension

History of Computer and Video Game (6/8) • Fifth Generation - 32 -bit / 64 -bit era (N-64) – Cassette vs. CD

History of Computer and Video Game (7/8) • Sixth Generation – 128 -bits era

History of Computer and Video Game (8/8) • Seventh Generation – NOW！

Video game publishers 1. Electronic Arts ($2. 951 billion USD (2006)) 2. Activision ($1. 4059 billion USD (2005)) 3. Nintendo (USD$4. 5 billion (2006)) 4. Microsoft Game Studios 5. Sony Computer Entertainment ($63. 98 billion USD (2006)) 6. etc… – ranked by Game Developer Magazine in September 2005

Video game developer • three main categories: – third-party developers (ex: EA) – In-house developers (studio) – the smaller independents • Team of developers: – – – – Programmers game designers Artists sound engineers Producers Testers Etc…

Game development pipeline • • • Idea Proposal Production Integration Testing – Debug – Tuning (調適)

The market size of computer and video game • Top 3: (1) USA (2) Japan (3) UK • Others: Australia, Canada, Spain, Germany, South Korea, Mexico, France and Italy. • Both India and the China are considered emerging markets • Global game market: $29 billions USD (2005) • Compare to Hollywood $90 billions USD(2005) • By 2010, the worldwide video game market should grow to $46. 5 billion, at an average 11. 4% compound annual rate

How about Taiwan?

How about Taiwan?

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