Well, this is it. The final blog of Keeping it Family Friendly: Social Media and Online Gaming. This semester we've just scratched the surface of the use of social media in online gaming. We've glanced at how to start a new Wizard in Wizard101 and all the way through looking at different topics relating to W101 and Online Gaming as a whole. Admittidly some topics were stretching it a bit. But since time stays still for no one, let's look to the future of Wizard101 and Online Gaming.
Inside the Spiral:
Wizard101 isn't a stagnant game. The Spiral is continually expanding outward at a rate of one new world a year. The new world for this year is Avalon. Avalon is a world based on the mythos of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. It is also the homeworld of Headmaster Merle Ambrose and his pet Gamma the Owl.
With Avalon and Zafaria before that and Celestia before that, New Worlds bring a few new things to the Spiral.
https://www.pirate101.com/free_game click the link to the left to learn more.
Outside the spiral
Technology is evolving as fast as the EAC moves through the Pacific Ocean. And with it the way social media is used expands. For example companies like Bing can generate a huge number of "likes" by using Farmville and offering a rare FV Cash item as a prize. If they have the ability to do so, people can scan QR codes and get info that otherwise is unavailable.
There is one show that can show my prediction of how social media is going to go onward.
Think about it like this, Spock's classic instrument is his tricorder. Any Smartphone or any handheld device with a QR reader can scan information. The PADDs that officers read from in ST:TNG. We have Kindles/Nooks/iPad and its numerous variations. The viewscreen each ship has on their bridges we use Skype and other video confrencing tools. We are truly not too far off from having our own personal Holodecks. Also and it goes without saying that communicators from TOS are celphones.
A nightmare that goes along with this scenario is that we are nearing a state of Assimilation. If a certain politician is re-elected for another four years, then to be able to have access to medical care the US will have to be microchipped. As in the POPULATION of the US will have to be chipped just like their pets. It's a scary thought.
Online games are branching out to moble devices. We are nearing a gaming universe similar to the Grid on TRON.
See ya in the Spiral
Inside the Spiral:
Wizard101 isn't a stagnant game. The Spiral is continually expanding outward at a rate of one new world a year. The new world for this year is Avalon. Avalon is a world based on the mythos of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. It is also the homeworld of Headmaster Merle Ambrose and his pet Gamma the Owl.
With Avalon and Zafaria before that and Celestia before that, New Worlds bring a few new things to the Spiral.
- A new level cap
- New gear
- New Storylines
- a New rank
- New mounts
- New Pets
- New challenges to keep the wizards busy.
https://www.pirate101.com/free_game click the link to the left to learn more.
Outside the spiral
Technology is evolving as fast as the EAC moves through the Pacific Ocean. And with it the way social media is used expands. For example companies like Bing can generate a huge number of "likes" by using Farmville and offering a rare FV Cash item as a prize. If they have the ability to do so, people can scan QR codes and get info that otherwise is unavailable.
There is one show that can show my prediction of how social media is going to go onward.
Star Trek
Think about it like this, Spock's classic instrument is his tricorder. Any Smartphone or any handheld device with a QR reader can scan information. The PADDs that officers read from in ST:TNG. We have Kindles/Nooks/iPad and its numerous variations. The viewscreen each ship has on their bridges we use Skype and other video confrencing tools. We are truly not too far off from having our own personal Holodecks. Also and it goes without saying that communicators from TOS are celphones.
A nightmare that goes along with this scenario is that we are nearing a state of Assimilation. If a certain politician is re-elected for another four years, then to be able to have access to medical care the US will have to be microchipped. As in the POPULATION of the US will have to be chipped just like their pets. It's a scary thought.
Online games are branching out to moble devices. We are nearing a gaming universe similar to the Grid on TRON.
See ya in the Spiral
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