Maneuverer Research Papers

My breakfast started to creep back up my throat as game time got closer and closer. I walked across the patch of grass behind home plate and was towered over by the 30 foot backstop with a huge net suspended from it. My bulging bag of equipment was beginning to make my shoulder hang. I walked down the steps into the cement dugout and placed my bag under the bench that spanned the entire length of the dugout. I sat down, laced up my cleats, and put my warm-up jacket on in preparation for batting practice. I stepped onto the grass surrounding the dugout to get the feeling of how wet the grass was. I dug my cleats into the grass and began my usual routine of taking certain practice swings as I gazed upon the press box in the wake of the backstop. Preceding the burn in my forearms, caused from the practice swings, I marched behind the dugout to the rows of batting cages to wait my turn in line. Pacing back and forth I knew I had to keep my nervousness to a minimum. I popped in a wad of Big League Chew and continued to

playing and it was my turn to hit the ball I told them not to expect anything

The pitcher tries to put me out of his mind, but he can’t because I’m 60 feet away. He may have the mound to his advantage, but nothing will stop me from achieving this goal. I assess the field. There are runners on all the bases, the outfielders are playing back to prevent any extra base hits, and we’re down by 2 runs. I smooth out the dirt where my foot land, I make it smooth and the perfect landing spot for my foot, and step into the box. Everything must be perfect. I take a deep breath. I must stay calm. In...out. I sway my bat towards him and back into my pre-pitch position. My hands are relaxed but ready to unleash the violence of a baseball swing.

In recent years, the number of people who are interested in computer games began to grow, and it is not a secret for anybody. Some people began to play because of new games with constantly evolving and improving graphics, and another people like the opportunity to leave the real world that is full of pressures and stress for a while, but most of them play because of games which exist for a long time and only becomes more popular every day. About one of these games I would like to talk. So, today we will talk about one of the most popular games all over the world established by excellent company called Valve – «Defense of the Ancients 2», better known under the name of DotA 2.

Each and every week I would head out to the baseball park, not because the experience would always leave me with joy, but because of the joy and satisfaction that the players had when they came and left the field. Many of the player’s parents told my fellow buddies and I, that the players would start counting down the days until the next Sunday, as soon as they’d get into the car! Throughout the entire Challenger season, I was reminded of how easy my life actually is, and how a how much I take for granted daily. With this program having such a great impact, I was dedicated to making sure that the player’s experience was the best possible. Which meant that I would often get there early, and help our Challenger division coordinator, to set up and makes sure that everything was ready for when the players came. My hard-work, and readiness to help out obviously were apparent to the coordinator, Jeff Sandes, as he came to me at the end of last year’s season to thank me for all the hard work, time and effort, I had put in to make sure that the players' experiences were the best

The anticipation as I stand in the concrete tunnel under the bleachers is my life’s biggest moment of uncertainty. Will the crowd stand on their feet in a standing ovation, or will the crowd deem me as mediocre? As I look to my left and right, my teammates’ faces assure me that their nervous excitement is identical to mine. When I hear the announcer on the loudspeaker and hear the students’ shouts, I know it is time to walk on the sharp green blades on the field under the shining Friday night lights.

* Attention grabber/introduction - Slaying dragons, defending your planet from alien invasion, or bouncing on the heads of koopas and saving the same princess who gets caught every time? Sound Familiar? If you’re anything like me you have tried all of these. Of course not literally but I’m sure you have all played a video game that has let you do something crazy and exciting you couldn’t normally do.

Everyday across the world, thousands of people log onto their computer to play games. For many, their game of choice is a simple one. If you enjoy shooting games, you may play Counter Strike. If you enjoy RPGs, you may play Major/Minor. If you enjoy strategy games, you may play Europa Universalis IV. However, fans of the sandbox genre may have difficulty choosing between Minecraft and Roblox when the choice is obvious. Roblox is a far superior game to Minecraft due to its gameplay, accessibility, and graphics.

Overall, I am generally satisfied with the process for developing the project. If I had another chance, I would have made the project electronical rather than a physical project, and with more time, I would have liked to have made the questions even more fun and engaging by having more real-world examples and possibly more interactive activities. In this way the primary text would be more about applying rhetoric rather than regurgitating information. By making the project into a physical game, I think we lost some advantages in terms of including image and video examples in our questions. I think an electronical version would have made the project more versatile and visually stimulating. There are advantages to having a physical game as opposed to a digital game, such as the participants feeling more involved because they are physically playing and experiencing rather than observing for the most part.

which gives the game excitement; if I knew how the game would progress every single time, I

Everyone enjoys fun, and what better way to have fun than participating in the activities you love? Gaming is one of the many favored ways to escape the reality of one’s life and enter into a surrealistic one, which is made from the imaginative thoughts of the game’s developer. Throughout its approximately thirty-year lifespan of popularity in homes, (as opposed to arcades) the games and the consoles on which they’re played have advanced drastically in graphical and interactive capability. Out of all the diverse genres of video games, by far the most immersive is the role-playing genre, and more specifically the choose-your-own-adventure archetype, as you are able to interact and make your own choices in the video game world the way you would have, rather than a slew of single-choice pre-scripted events in a story. However, even with the choose-your-own-adventure archetype’s interactions, the amount of choices could only go so far, so fans resorted to creating fan fictions, which are stories about the games created from their imagination that display alternate choices and realities.

Video games in today’s society have become very popular. Every new game that comes out to be played and conquered by the average gamer has its own category. There are several other types of genres of games that people play but because of big hit titles and the new popular game systems like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, people become more interested in a game that is well known than a game they have never even heard of before. Every game has its own storyline and own way of how it unfolds and where the game ends according to game play. Some of the biggest reasons people sway to certain genres of games is because of the game titles released under them and the demand of people who want a good game under that category. The top three most

o Memory - Playing first person shooter games such as Call of Duty and Battlefield series enables players to effectively judge what information should be stored in their working memory and what can be discarded considering the task at hand, according to a study published in the Psychological Research.

Gaming is becoming mainstream and it’s generating a lot of buzz. It’s not just that we like to spend more time playing games, gaming itself is becoming increasingly lucrative and competitive. This kind of rise in popularity is bound to mean one thing: changes in the industry. New gaming trends are popping up and they will change the future of gaming once more. What to expect?

Certainly, different styles of video games may produce different results. It is important for us to understand the different benefits from the various styles of games. Because students play a wide variety of games, they may have a repertoire of schemas with different information (Pillay 2002).