Gamer

Work Title: Gamer
Medium: Film
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Year: 2009
Writer(s): Mark Neveldine
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s): Brian Taylor
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: Yes
Summary:

a science fiction movie where gerard butler plays a character where he is an unwilling participant in an online game in which people control actual human being players in this game.

  • Self-Written?: 1
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Era/Year of Portrayal: near_future
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

the people who control the gamers have very mediated rooms in which they can hear smell see and feel what the player ( an acutal human ) does. and the player ( the acutal human) have a piece of metal in their brain in which control them to do what their participant orders.

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: Nanites , the colonize the bain and gradually replace the exisisiting brain cells and allow full control - and the technology allows gamers to control a real person in a fake community (similar to second life but with more telepresence)
  • Description of the technology: the gamers have full control over the players of slayers. they can either use their computers because it is an online game or huge virtual reality room, depends on how rich the gamer is. the interface is just like any other 3rd-person shooter, similar to the WII in that you move your arms where you want your players arms to move and your head where you want your players head to move and so one. the vividness is incredibile, you truly feel like your playing the game because your entire body is immersed in this technology.
  • Nature of task or activity: the gamers have a virtual reality room where they feel as though they are actually fighting the war that their players are. the game is called slayers its a third person shooter game and a 17yr old boy controls gerard butler ... the game controls death row prisoners in mass scale death matches and when the inmates live through 20 matches they win a full pardon. but the technology that they use to control their brain can gradually lead to the extinction of independent thought
  • Performance of the Technology: the technology gradually leads to control people against their free will, which is what the creators wanted to happen but noone knows that.
  • Description of creator(s): ken castle revolutionized the gaming industry with his invention of self-replicationg nanites. which allows control of all motor functions by a third party.
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): the movie was made to make people think and to entertain people.
  • Description of users of technology: the gamers realize how cool it is because everyone is dieing to see who, dies. its a real life battle yet people act as though it has no repercussion on peoples lives, to them its a game, yet its real people dieing.
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: both
  • Description of presence experience: you feel like your in the game because its your motor functions controlling the player yet you dont get a scratch on you, and you interact with your player, you can talk to them and they you.
  • User awareness of technology during experience: the players realize that they are controlled and they hate it yet they are striving to survive through 30 missions so they can be set free.
  • Valence of experience: the gamers enjoy experience, but the players dont, because its their lives on the line.
  • Specific responses: in the scene where gerard butlers wife is doing the second life like game, wearing slutty clothes and walking in a "mautre fashion" the person on the computer watching it happen is a gross old man becoming very aroused both physiologically and physically. people enjoy the feeling of being whomever they like in second life but some dont, they find it degrading and more of a job (similar to prostitution or stripping)
Long-term consequences:

people can actually have their mind taken over fully with the nanites in their brain.

Other:

this was such a cool movie! you need to see it.

Coder name: ciara mcgarvey
Coder email: tua90188@temple.edu
Coder affiliation: temple university . btmm matthew lombard's class.