Sources and APA

Mesnildrey, P. (2023, January 26). Detailed breakdown of the stages of Indie Game Development (and what to prepare for each). Exo Deploy. https://www.exodeploy-games.com/post/detailed-breakdown-of-each-steps-of-indie-game-development

This article is about the specific steps that will come up in the development and creation of a video game, and what the game design team should have prepared at each step. It also goes over the expectations of the team members.

Henley, S. (2024, February 12). The Pandemic Changed Survival Games Forever. TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/pandemic-changed-survival-games-forever-palworld-nightingale-valheim/

This article discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic changed how people viewed and interacted with survival horror games, it put us closer into the player character's postion because we know some of the fear the player character feels. The context of the pandemic made it so we interacted with media differently, changed what media we were drawn to. 

Hohagen, A. Communications in Video Games. (2023,  July 4). Diggit Magazine. https://www.diggitmagazine.com/articles/communications-video-games

This article sums up how video games and the advances in video game technology have changed what games have been produced and how gamers communicate with each other across games and distance. Multiplayer gaming has become much more popular because of people moving away from their friend groups, social anxiety and the COVID-19 pandemic which forced everyone to stay home and have to majorly socialize through electronic means such as video games.