Unit 78: Digital Graphics for Computer Games: HA2 Task 2

Photo Realism

This is when an images is made to look real but not too real to keep it more like a game and not real life its kept like this because it needs to stay like a game and not like something in real life this is important if the user is going to play the game and not take it too serious for them to play it.

Cell Shading
this is when an image is kept like a cartoon to make it feel more like a game and not like something in real life this helps player to play the game without taking it serious and it keeps the game looking like a game and not just some cartoon animation. cell shading is used in a variety of games such as borderlands 2 or ridge racer theses sort of games depend on looking like a cartoon to give it a theme and too keep it less realistic.

Abstraction

Abstract games are some of the oldest games around the reason being is that they are simple games but still can be addicting for players one they've played the games. the aim of the games are too either last as long as you can whilst fitting colors shapes into gaps to try and fill up lines of colors to ensure you don't reach the top of the game and lose the game is some examples of theses games are things like Tetris these games were popular during there time so that's why there still around now for us to play just to see what they were like during there time.

Exaggeration
This is games in which you fight you opponent with kn fu or ninja style fighting the sort of games you can find this are things like ninja gaiden this is a game where you fight you opposite opponent in a 3d style games.

Exaggeration is used in games to draw users in and make something look bigger or better than it actually is in reality or in the actual game. exaggeration is used in most games to give it a bit of a different theme and to take players threw a crazy or a fun story this is shown with main bosses or the game overall this is why it is called exaggerated within the games themselves.