学术英语Introduction

Theme:

The present development situation of mobile games and forecast of its future Introduction:

Since the 1950s, the development of video games, which has already set its own markets as well as its level of technology into a more advanced rank, still has a brilliant future. With the development of computer technology, the contents of video games have been enriched, special effects improved, thus game producers are so eager to explore other novel things that scripts, music and other relevant productions of games are accordingly created. As a result, after movie, video gameis regarded as the ninth art in the world. In addition, economic benefits that game industries make are impressive.Tencent indicates that the profit which its games division made in 2013 was 1225 million dollars, taking up 44.6% of total earnings(1), and Chinese mobile games market gained 11.24 billion dollars in the first half year of 2014(2). Obviously, it is evident that video game is always an essential part in industry no matter when it is created. For personal interest and profession, our group decides to study one important part of video game: mobile game. At first, we will have a better understanding of the reason of mobile game’s rise by analyzing its operating model, then we use history of games to conclude its tendency of development, and we will draw a conclusion ultimately from what we have studied. Keyword:Mobile Game, craze for game in 20th century, modern’s need, Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies.

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I：The rise from electronic games to mobile games

There isn’t an accurate statement about the birth of video games, but it is generally considered to originate from a game called Space War in the PDP-1, which was the first computer with a visual display in the world, in the small laboratory named MIT in 1962. Experiencing several stages of development such as the great upsurge and the fall of video game room, the replacement of living room entertainment equipment, the boom of portable products, the development of video game has been beyond people’s predictions and still evolves constantly, and now the influence of games reaches the top level in the world. The E3 game exhibition held in Los Angelesin the third week of May, attracts a great number of people from all over the world to participate each year. The number of exhibitors in 2014 was over 48900, they gathered together, not for anything else, but passion for the games. Therefore, what can make the electronic game experience the test of history and become an industry with such visual expressivity and economic benefits? After researching history of the game and exploring the industry, we summarize a number of reasons about these.

(1)Creativity and Artistic Enjoyment

Video games are always full of original ideas and interesting content, which makes users enjoy a steady stream of freshness, so that game players tend to be attracted by electronic games. In addition, humans always take pleasure in trying