Geometry in Video games

 When we think of the graphics that makes a video game we see that it is based in geometric forms and interactions between geometric shapes. Video games are made by extensive use of circles, squares,ovals, rectangles, trapezoids, and many other geometric figures that construct the world of the video game. When programing video games programmers are able to develop a video game by using concepts that we learn at school like two dimensional and three dimensional objects in order to create a sense of depth. The use of three dimensional concept is called " skybox".

 Here are some examples of video games that maybe you have played before and you haven't realised all the geometric figures that appear in it:

Space Invaders was popularized as one of the biggest developmets in the technological world for leisure, and was made by using geometric forms.

This game consisted in killing aliens, and you had to shoot with your spaceship to the enemies that came down in a line. As you can see in the image, it appears different geometric forms to represent  the graphics used.

Another popular game that has geometric forms in it, is called the Bick Breaker.

 

In this game you have to destroy all the blocks from the top part by using a ball.The difficulty in this game is that the ball has to bounce by using a small rectangle in order to get enough speed to hit the blocks.

Here is an example of a new video game that it's world is created based in geometric shapes:

  As you have seen Geometry is found in many aspects of our life.Nowadays, video games are played by many people and from this games the can learn different aspects of Geometry.

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