If you were lucky, or creative, you may have played local games with your friends across consoles, also known as a LAN party. Berkeley: University of California Press: pp.Back in the day, gaming with your friends meant meeting up at one friend’s house, bringing a controller or two, and pulling an all-nighter while trying to beat an entire campaign at the highest difficulty setting. “Art Worlds and Collective Activity” in Art Worlds. I you haven’t already I would give this one a try. The TankĪll in all Left for Dead is an amazing FPS game and even though it is getting quite old now, it is still heavily maintained by Valve and the online community that it has carried over the years has stayed strong in numbers. “All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number of people” ( Art Worlds and Collective Activity pg 1).
One quote from Becker that helps describe this idea is as follows,” It takes the effort of everyone to pull it all together. Everyone works as a team to complete objectives and goals set to make the game. Even though Valve made the game themselves that doesn’t mean that it was a simple task and the intricacy and details like the AI for example, is sometimes taken from granted in today’s world while, back then, it took an entire team of developers to nail down. Becker’s argument was essentially about the complexity that goes into artistic work and how it is all intertwined. The theorist that I chose to relate this game to was Becker and his chapter on “Art Worlds and Collective Activity”. It is quite obvious that the author of the game is Valve themselves but it took a great deal of effort from more than just a single person to produce this critically acclaimed FPS. What is interesting here is that the same company both developed as well as published the game themselves which is not very common today. Left For Dead was released for the PC in November 2008 by the Developer/Publisher Valve. The game never becomes monotonous because new challenges are always ever present, essentially making no two playthroughs ever exactly the same. Luckily in Left for Dead there is an AI known as ‘The Director” which makes dynamic spawn system for the game, randomly changing the dramatics, pacing, and difficulty at will. Since the basic gameplay style never changes from map to map, players will usually learn the paths relatively quickly. The game can either be played single player style or cooperatively with friends. Left For Dead is a co-op action horror game for either the PC or XBOX 360 where four playable characters are in a struggle for survival against never ending swarms of zombies and other mutant monsters.
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