The Impact of Video Games on Society

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Interdisciplinary Learning CoursesThe Impact of Video Games on Society

Do you want to get into the video game industry and its applications in a fun way?

Video games are the fastest-growing cultural industry in the last 20 years. The objective of this subject is to observe this form of leisure in a global way, its social impact over the last 50 years, as well as to have a basic notion of how video games are designed and the potential job opportunities offered to different professional profiles. All this with a participatory, playful methodology and without the need to know how to program or other prior knowledge

Learning Goals

Understand what a video game is.
Know their history and social impact.
Observe the types of video games: entertainment, serious and gamification.
Research the professional profiles and their possibilities as job opportunities.
Learn some design strategies from a conceptual perspective.

Contents of the Subject

01 What is play, game or video game?
02 Types of entertainment videogames.
03 Social history of video games 1: University experimentation.
04 Social history of video games 2: Technological democratizer.
05 Social history of video games 3: From toy to intergenerational leisure.
06 Social history of video games 4: Cultural environment.
07 Video games as a job opportunity.
08 How is a video game designed?
09 Paper and physical prototyping.
10 The YouTuber phenomenon.
11 The possibilities of E-sports.
12 Applied videogames, the serious games.
13 Gamification or video games make the jump to large companies.
14 Violence and video games.
15 Addiction and videogames.

Carlos González Tardón

Professor of The Impact of Video Games on Society