Travel through video game history and discover how innovation, successes, and mistakes shaped one of the world's most influential industries.
The history of video games isn't just a succession of consoles, genres, and technical advances: it's the map that explains how the interactive entertainment industry thinks, evolves, and reinvents itself.
In this course you'll explore the evolution of gaming from the first technological experiments to today's global industry, analyzing the consoles, studios, genres and creative revolutions that defined each generation.
You'll understand what caused the 1983 crash, how the arrival of 3D changed the language of design, and how the Internet, online gaming, and the indie scene forever transformed the way we create, distribute, and play video games.
We'll also explore current trends like virtual reality, artificial intelligence, streaming and new persistent world models, always from a critical perspective and connected to game design.
From computational lab experiments to the birth of commercial arcade.
How a lack of quality control almost killed everything and how Nintendo saved the industry.
The technical and creative shift from 2D to 3D that changed the visual language forever.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's strategy to conquer the living room.
Why Minecraft and Genshin Impact Have Redefined the Modern Gaming Market.
How VR and physics design elevate storytelling to the next level.
Master the theoretical frameworks to analyze any video game professionally.
How game mechanics tell stories without a single line of dialogue.
The impact of generative AI on NPC creation and living worlds.
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