Violence in games - DD1000

For this assignment I have been tasked about researching the violence in games though history. Looking at areas such as sport and board games through to modern day video games. I will ask, since when has violence been a part of gaming? Why do we enjoy violence in games? I will also look at case studies of violent games though the ages. Events such as the Columbine shooting of 1999 has caused huge debates about the level of violence available to people at any age so i will look in to both sides of the stories to see the effects that can be caused apparently from violent games.

Timeline ideas 

As part of the project is to present a any research and findings in a five to ten minute presentation at the end. A timeline poster is a great way to show this information quickly and cleanly, but a plain line with a bit of information here and there is very boring but using the base line of violence a timeline can be made more fun and catch peoples eye. Here are a few of my early ideas:

The chalk Outline

Most commonly scene in old 80s and 90s american detective television show the classic chalk outline is a very iconic image. Drawn around a dead body before its removal, the chalk outline help detectives to work out what happened at the scene of the crime whilst the body can be removed and on its way to the morgue. This design keeps the classic timeline shape whilst removing some of the linear shaping. 

Police Tape

Defiantly one of my more linear ideas, the yellow police tape is a common site at all things criminal. The nice long straight shape coupled with the criss cross nature of a taped of crime scene makes the police tape an ideal candidate for the timeline layout. my only concern is that it may be to linear, to much line a normal basic timeline. 

Spiders Web

A few years ago I remember watching a Sherlock Holmes film, in which Sherlock hot on the trail of his enemy Moriarty locks himself away for months attempting to track down the mysterious man. One scene stuck with me after the film and that was the amazing spiders web of a crime board that he produced in that time. The walls were covered all over with newspaper clippings and photos all being linked together with thick red string in a massive spiders web shape. Although I probably will not be allowed to talk over an entire room to cover with string the idea of organised chaos may be something that I can use.