Sunday, November 6, 2011

Differences between virtual worlds, simulators, and video games.

Virtual worlds are a new phenomenon. What identifies a virtual world is the fact that they don't have a main goal. This means that they can be  changing depending in the designer and the programmer objectives.

Simulators are made to recreate a specific environment. As an example we can mention the NASA space walk simulator, Moon base Alpha, etc... The goal of a simulator is to make the user experiment determinate aspects of certain environments.

Video games are usually only for entertainment. Video games have a special goal in the game. This goal can be to reach certain level or amount of points or gold.

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