Now that my machinima video is finished, I’ve had a little trouble deciding on what direction I want to take to build on it. I’ve thought a lot about it and I’ve realized that video games play an increasingly important and visible role in our culture today.
Video games are a part of digital culture and their popularity has brought them to the forefront of culture in general. I think that in many ways culture today is a digital culture. There are video game conventions, and movies based on video games and vice versa.
There are even subcultures in video game culture. Certain games are extremely popular and each has developed its own culture. This includes fan sites, fan art, machnima, and comics. With the advent of easily accessible digital tools, much of this art is done entirely digitally.
I’ve decided to use World of Warcraft as an example to show how gaming and specific games have their own subcultures. I can’t decide whether I want to do a 2nd video, extend/modify the one I have, or pair it with a graphic/image project.
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