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Reflection


For this week's reading task, the lecturer instructed us to set up our research about the topic we will be writing about for our project. We are going to have to create annotated bibliographies for 3 articles, books or documents we have found as well as a short summary about them. I found this to be quite difficult because there aren't that many articles to find and there isn't that many that relate to the topic I'm writing about which is the evolution of multiplayer/ the history of multiplayer gaming. I tried putting in as many keywords down as much as I can think of and there hasn't been that much luck.  But I did come across a few good articles that somewhat relate to the topic I am researching.



The evolution of Multiplayer is a topic that not many people had written about, it is usually of topics talking about the social aspect, the esports industry and the technical aspects. I did not find anything that wrote about the history of multiplayer or multiplayer gaming. But I did find a very informative youtube video that I found from the online library and it is called "the history of multiplayer in gaming" and it's from a youtube channel named "Logitech G".



The Documents I read 

The first document I have found was a video called "A History of Multiplayer in Gaming" by a channel called Logitech G. This video is about 13 minutes long. I have watched the whole video and it gave me some very informative information that I can use for my project. 

The second document I found was a PDF article called "Multiplayer Serious Games" by Viktor Wendel and Johannes Konert.  This article was about 31 pages long and I only skimmed through a few headings in the whole article. 

The third document I found was a PDF presentation and is called "Evolution of Multiplayer" by Rocky Forehand, Ben Bricker,Nate Niederkorn, Jared Hagans, Ian Freshwater, Jacob Grealy.   This presentation is about 81 slides long I read through the whole presentation and I obtained a really good knowledge of the different modes of multiplayer, the different eras and gameplay aspects. 


Annotated Bibliographies 

Logitech, G. (2018) A History of Multiplayer Gaming.

This video goes through a history of multiplayer dating all the way back to the 1950s where you can play a game of tennis against a person on an oscilloscope to playing on a LAN server in the 90s on Quake or Doom and this is where the internet started to become a thing, to today where you can play with millions of people around the world in FPS games, MMORPGs, and sports games etc. 

Rocky Forehand Ben Bricker Nate Niederkorn Jared Hagans Ian Freshwater Jacob Grealy (2014) Evolution of Multiplayer.

 In this presentation, they talk about the history of multiplayer which goes from Non-Networked multiplayer games such as arcade games in the 1970s  like Computer Space in 1971 which consists of 2 players taking turns to play. Pong in 1972 and this is where multiplayer gaming was born where 2 people can play at the same time. They talk about the Golden age of gaming in the 1980s and 1990s that consisted of split-screen gaming that can be up to 4 players playing at the same time. They also talk about different modes like Seamless Multiplayer, Passive Multiplayer, Wireless Multiplayer and Goalless Multiplayer. Towards the end, they talk about online multiplayer gaming and Asymmetrical Gameplay which defines it as a form of multiplayer in video games in which loads of players can play the same game together in different ways.


Wendel, V. and Konert, J. (2016) 'Multiplayer Serious Games' In Serious Games, Anonymous: Springer, 211-241.

This article goes over the topic of multiplayer serious games. They break the article down in terms of different game types, forms, genres and techniques that can be used for a variety of serious game purposes. They also go over what is competitive multiplayer, co-operative multiplayer and collaborative multiplayer. Expanding on multiplayer types, they also go over the topic of collaborative learning in multiplayer games.

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