News Games
News games, sometimes called game news games, are a sub-genre of video games that attempt to apply various journalistic principles to the production of their games. They may fall into several categories, such as historical fact-checking, investigative, simulated operations, and trivia and puzzle games. Some news games are completely fictional, while others are based on real events. Still others combine some elements of all of these categories, or even aim to provide an entirely new experience in the form of a news game.
Historically, news games have been used as a means of education and entertainment by allowing players to become insiders of certain events which are being covered by newspapers or magazines. Players are frequently required to read between the lines in order to make sense of certain information which is presented to them. For example, in many news games, it is often required to decipher a series of text messages that are being sent and received from a specific computer terminal, in order to successfully complete one scenario.
In recent years, the genre has begun to explore other gaming possibilities, and is especially popular among cell phone and online gaming communities. One of the earliest forms of this hybrid gaming was the blogging game, which allowed players to weigh in on the events of a news story using specialized blogging tools. The genre has grown into a wide variety of different sub-genres, each with its own defining characteristics. Some of the most common gaming elements include: puzzle solving, narrative, visual images, and interactivity. However, there are countless others, all based on the same idea – reporting, and presenting the news in an entertaining way.
One of the best ways to get started with news games is to create your own unique template message, which you will then use in all future games. You can choose from a number of different templates, including: sports, weather, news, history, technology, TV show, government, crime, and much more. Each template has a set of particular traits, which make them very easy to adapt for any given news game. If you want to create a template message for a sports game, for example, you can pick something relevant to the topic, like a player’s last game, or the result of a race. You can also use words or phrases that will be commonly used in the media, such as “in crisis,” “on the news,” “on the trail” and “the new scoop.”
Themes and concepts are very important as well. For instance, in most news games, sports events will have their own theme, like a basketball game or a race. If you are creating a news story based on a natural disaster, for example, your subject matter should be based on what is going on in that area at the time. For example, if there were reports that a volcano was erupting in the region, a news game about the situation might be about the volcano eruption and so on.
One of the latest trends is the game based on real life news. In the case of the Syrian conflict, a new game called Syria: War Zone has become incredibly popular. Players take on the role of a news anchor, as they report on the bloody civil war raging in that country. Other recent video games have even taken the genre to the next level. For example, one game in the genre takes players into the middle of the battle for Iraq, as both the US military and Iran to fight for control of the volatile Middle East nation.