I just don’t understand any of it, I play them all day yet I have no understanding of what it is or how it works. The people that make these things must be the smartest people.
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A video game is just a computer program that shows pretty colors on the screen when you press the right buttons. Did you press the first button at the right time? If you did, it shows one set of pretty colors. If you did not, it shows a different set of colors, and those are not as pretty.
You have a controller with a certain number of buttons on it. The computer follows a set of instructions. It shows some images on the screen, then it waits for you to hit a button. After a certain amount of time, it moves on to the next set of images. The next set is determined by whether you hit the right button or not.
As computers became more powerful, the complexity of the images they show can increase. Also the amount of stuff the computer keeps track of can increase. Maybe you pushed a particular button 10 minutes ago and the computer remembers that, and is waiting for that part of the game to come up.
Each game builds on games people made before it. You couldn’t create a 2023-era video game from scratch today by yourself. There’s too much stuff in it for one person to do. But if you had thousands people working on it for 50 years, you could do it. Then realize that we *have* had thousands of people working on it for 50 years. They didn’t all work for the same company, and they didn’t work on the same games, but we know what the previous set of guys did, and it’s easy to copy them. Each new generation of game takes what they did before, and makes small changes.
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