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Aren't games great. The bit when you kill the alien with a sniper rifle and see all its guts, or the bit when you pull off a 900 maki uhu jub gub on a skateboard. But they are getting a bit repetitive, aren't they. The main aim of games is to win right. Take the FPS genre. It is very rare to find a totally unpredictable plot in a FPS, like action films. Major incident, you are a low life cop, go out to beat the bad guys, an army after you and in the end you get the bad guy and the girl. Getting slightly tedious. Racing games are fun for a bit until you see the blood coming from your fingers after hundreds of attempts at beating you own times or making the hairpin turn at 500mph.
Multiplayer games are fun. Halo is amazing with four players, as is Fifa. The situations are always random and the thought of ganging up behind your friend obviously appeals to some. But it still gets boring after a while. What developers should do is create jobs that involve everyday jobs like walking the dog (maybe whilst spying in your neighbours) or doing the washing up (while surfing the Internet). Or maybe they should make games that prepare you for future job experience. Like in a courtroom. You could download different scenarios off the net and try and win (possibly money). Or you could see how many floors you could scrub in a school as a janitor.
This might seem like a dumb idea, but it might be worth a try. Picture this. You can't get a job and so you turn to these games. You go to court and are faced with a challenging case. A woman has struck her husband with an iron, and left him to bleed. Charged with attempted murder. But she reveals that her husband has been physically abusing her for years (familiar?). You can choose to be the judge, jury or either the opposition or proposition of the charge. You could be the detective or the lawyer who has just been given the evidence.
Games at the moment do follow a sense of work. GTA3 is about a man whose work is to steal cars, escort drug barrens and evade the cops, and 007 game sees a spy infiltrating some random place. But these jobs aren't realistically achievable. You are able to become a lawyer more easily than a spy (maybe a criminal is a different matter). So these job games could give youths experience before they step out into the job world.
These games could also include parenting issues. Raise a child for six months without dropping it or making it cry and you win 75p. These games could be the answer to unemployment. The people can see what the job is like and then opt for whether they want try and follow it. Anyway, it probably seems like a stupid idea but I wouldn't mind judging the case of 'Little **'.
Multiplayer games are fun. Halo is amazing with four players, as is Fifa. The situations are always random and the thought of ganging up behind your friend obviously appeals to some. But it still gets boring after a while. What developers should do is create jobs that involve everyday jobs like walking the dog (maybe whilst spying in your neighbours) or doing the washing up (while surfing the Internet). Or maybe they should make games that prepare you for future job experience. Like in a courtroom. You could download different scenarios off the net and try and win (possibly money). Or you could see how many floors you could scrub in a school as a janitor.
This might seem like a dumb idea, but it might be worth a try. Picture this. You can't get a job and so you turn to these games. You go to court and are faced with a challenging case. A woman has struck her husband with an iron, and left him to bleed. Charged with attempted murder. But she reveals that her husband has been physically abusing her for years (familiar?). You can choose to be the judge, jury or either the opposition or proposition of the charge. You could be the detective or the lawyer who has just been given the evidence.
Games at the moment do follow a sense of work. GTA3 is about a man whose work is to steal cars, escort drug barrens and evade the cops, and 007 game sees a spy infiltrating some random place. But these jobs aren't realistically achievable. You are able to become a lawyer more easily than a spy (maybe a criminal is a different matter). So these job games could give youths experience before they step out into the job world.
These games could also include parenting issues. Raise a child for six months without dropping it or making it cry and you win 75p. These games could be the answer to unemployment. The people can see what the job is like and then opt for whether they want try and follow it. Anyway, it probably seems like a stupid idea but I wouldn't mind judging the case of 'Little **'.
It could definitely work for some jobs, look at Taxi driving for instance...
other job simulations worth becoming unemployed for:
1) Policeman/Fireman/Paramedic: obvious gameplay potential
2) Window Cleaner... in the style of Ico, perhaps?
3) Builder... read porn, drink tea, smoke rollies, whistle at passing women
4) Computer Programmer... make a game, then play that.
5) Bouncer... only make it good, unlike the PS2 game
6) Pizza Delivery Moped dude.
7) Dixons Sales Assistant: make inaccurate comments about all products and wander about with your head firmly inserted in your ****
8) Hairdresser/Dentist... could make for a SICK game
9) Dustman... I've always wanted to drive a big dumptruck, and maybe even throw passers by into the crusher in the back... mwuha haha
10) The guy who winds the screen back on Blind Date... simply because that is clearly the most random job in the world. And it does actually exist (est. £14k pa)
other job simulations worth becoming unemployed for:
1) Policeman/Fireman/Paramedic: obvious gameplay potential
2) Window Cleaner... in the style of Ico, perhaps?
3) Builder... read porn, drink tea, smoke rollies, whistle at passing women
4) Computer Programmer... make a game, then play that.
5) Bouncer... only make it good, unlike the PS2 game
6) Pizza Delivery Moped dude.
7) Dixons Sales Assistant: make inaccurate comments about all products and wander about with your head firmly inserted in your ****
8) Hairdresser/Dentist... could make for a SICK game
9) Dustman... I've always wanted to drive a big dumptruck, and maybe even throw passers by into the crusher in the back... mwuha haha
10) The guy who winds the screen back on Blind Date... simply because that is clearly the most random job in the world. And it does actually exist (est. £14k pa)
Raise a child for six months without dropping it or making it cry and you win 75p. These games could be the answer to unemployment.
Heh, sorry but I don't think that's going to cover the costs of living :0)
Anyway it's a nice idea but as people always say, games are and escape from reality where you're put in some make believe world and situation and must do whatever it is you have to do to progress. Gameshave to lifelike but allow us to do things we wouldn't normally do in life (if you see what I mean) realistic life like games wouldn't catch on in my opinion.
Unless of course it's like a game that prepares you for certain situations in lfe, like say finding a job but thier not really games you would want to play in your leisure time.
The learning aspect of the games would have to be hidden somewhat like when children play games at a young age and it helps them develop new skills intentionally, if a developer could do that then that would be very good indeed.
Heh, sorry but I don't think that's going to cover the costs of living :0)
Anyway it's a nice idea but as people always say, games are and escape from reality where you're put in some make believe world and situation and must do whatever it is you have to do to progress. Gameshave to lifelike but allow us to do things we wouldn't normally do in life (if you see what I mean) realistic life like games wouldn't catch on in my opinion.
Unless of course it's like a game that prepares you for certain situations in lfe, like say finding a job but thier not really games you would want to play in your leisure time.
The learning aspect of the games would have to be hidden somewhat like when children play games at a young age and it helps them develop new skills intentionally, if a developer could do that then that would be very good indeed.
Aren't games great. The bit when you kill the alien with a sniper rifle and see all its guts, or the bit when you pull off a 900 maki uhu jub gub on a skateboard. But they are getting a bit repetitive, aren't they. The main aim of games is to win right. Take the FPS genre. It is very rare to find a totally unpredictable plot in a FPS, like action films. Major incident, you are a low life cop, go out to beat the bad guys, an army after you and in the end you get the bad guy and the girl. Getting slightly tedious. Racing games are fun for a bit until you see the blood coming from your fingers after hundreds of attempts at beating you own times or making the hairpin turn at 500mph.
Multiplayer games are fun. Halo is amazing with four players, as is Fifa. The situations are always random and the thought of ganging up behind your friend obviously appeals to some. But it still gets boring after a while. What developers should do is create jobs that involve everyday jobs like walking the dog (maybe whilst spying in your neighbours) or doing the washing up (while surfing the Internet). Or maybe they should make games that prepare you for future job experience. Like in a courtroom. You could download different scenarios off the net and try and win (possibly money). Or you could see how many floors you could scrub in a school as a janitor.
This might seem like a dumb idea, but it might be worth a try. Picture this. You can't get a job and so you turn to these games. You go to court and are faced with a challenging case. A woman has struck her husband with an iron, and left him to bleed. Charged with attempted murder. But she reveals that her husband has been physically abusing her for years (familiar?). You can choose to be the judge, jury or either the opposition or proposition of the charge. You could be the detective or the lawyer who has just been given the evidence.
Games at the moment do follow a sense of work. GTA3 is about a man whose work is to steal cars, escort drug barrens and evade the cops, and 007 game sees a spy infiltrating some random place. But these jobs aren't realistically achievable. You are able to become a lawyer more easily than a spy (maybe a criminal is a different matter). So these job games could give youths experience before they step out into the job world.
These games could also include parenting issues. Raise a child for six months without dropping it or making it cry and you win 75p. These games could be the answer to unemployment. The people can see what the job is like and then opt for whether they want try and follow it. Anyway, it probably seems like a stupid idea but I wouldn't mind judging the case of 'Little **'.
Multiplayer games are fun. Halo is amazing with four players, as is Fifa. The situations are always random and the thought of ganging up behind your friend obviously appeals to some. But it still gets boring after a while. What developers should do is create jobs that involve everyday jobs like walking the dog (maybe whilst spying in your neighbours) or doing the washing up (while surfing the Internet). Or maybe they should make games that prepare you for future job experience. Like in a courtroom. You could download different scenarios off the net and try and win (possibly money). Or you could see how many floors you could scrub in a school as a janitor.
This might seem like a dumb idea, but it might be worth a try. Picture this. You can't get a job and so you turn to these games. You go to court and are faced with a challenging case. A woman has struck her husband with an iron, and left him to bleed. Charged with attempted murder. But she reveals that her husband has been physically abusing her for years (familiar?). You can choose to be the judge, jury or either the opposition or proposition of the charge. You could be the detective or the lawyer who has just been given the evidence.
Games at the moment do follow a sense of work. GTA3 is about a man whose work is to steal cars, escort drug barrens and evade the cops, and 007 game sees a spy infiltrating some random place. But these jobs aren't realistically achievable. You are able to become a lawyer more easily than a spy (maybe a criminal is a different matter). So these job games could give youths experience before they step out into the job world.
These games could also include parenting issues. Raise a child for six months without dropping it or making it cry and you win 75p. These games could be the answer to unemployment. The people can see what the job is like and then opt for whether they want try and follow it. Anyway, it probably seems like a stupid idea but I wouldn't mind judging the case of 'Little **'.