Entertainment and

Multimedia
Software
L A U RY N A S D A U K A S
IGNAS JANKAUSKAS
SIMONAS JUODIS
D O V Y D A S J U R E N KO VA S

Vilnius University
2014

Content
Definition
Benefits and drawbacks of video games
Game development process
Multimedia software

Definition
Entertainment applications software which provides the user
entertainment and amusement.
Multimedia applications software which processes audio,
images and videos. For example, music and video players,
editing software.

Video games
Avideo gameis
anelectronic gamethat
involves human interaction
with auser interfaceto
generate visual feedback
on a video device.

What you have to know about

Gaming?
Development
Video game platforms
Genres

Pros and Cons of Gaming

POSITIVE ASPECTS

Social connection
Better vision
Brain booster

NEGATIVE ASPECTS

Obesity
Addictive
Negative effect to studies
Vision Dangers

System Requirements
To be used efficiently, allcomputer softwareneeds
certainhardwarecomponents or other software resources to be present on
acomputer.

Video Games Industry

Today's video games are enjoyed by players all ages and backgrounds and
parents are increasingly involved in making sure that the ones their children
play are age-appropriate.

Software for Creating a Video

Game
Serious software license likeUnreal 4 Engine costthousand dollars.
Of course there is also free software:
GameMaker(Windows/Mac OS X)
Construct 2(Windows)
Stencyl(Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)
Unity(Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)

Making of Video Games

The first video games were developed in the 1950s, but required mainframe
computers and were not available to the general public.
Traditional commercialPCandconsole gamesare normally funded by
apublisherand take several years to develop.

Economic Benefits

Biggest Companies

Multimedia
software

What is multimedia?
Multimediarefers tocontent that uses a
combination of differentcontent forms.
Multimedia is usually recorded and played,
displayed,
or
accessed
byinformation
contentprocessing
devices,
such
as
computerized and electronic devices, but can
also be part of a live performance.

Multimedia software
Multimedia software applications which processes audio,
images or videos. For example, music and video players, image
viewing and editing software.

Multimedia software categories

Audio software
Media players
Image editors
PDF Readers

Audio players
Audio player is a piece of computer software for playing audio files. There are
thousands of audio players available on many different operating systems.

Examples

Winamp
Winamp was released in 1997 and became very popular since then. It is
available on Windows, OS X and Android. Winamp was developed by Nullsoft,
which shut down in 2013. Winamp supports music playback usingmany most
popular audio formats (MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, etc.)

Winamp 1.0

Winamp 5.0

Winamp 5.5

Spotify
Spotifyis
a
commercialmusic
streamingservice
providingcontent fromrecord labels includingSony,EMI,Warner
Music GroupandUniversal. It was launched in 2008 and became
very popular because it is free to use and discourages piracy by
providing superior service. Spotify has over 40 million active
users of which 10 million are subscribed to paid services.

Spotify

Media players
Amedia playeris acomputer program for playingmultimediafiles. Media
players display standardmedia control iconsknown from physical devices
such astape recordersandCD players. General-purpose media players can
play bothaudioandvideo

Example

VLC media player

VLC is aportable,free and opensource,cross-platformmedia
playerwritten by theVideoLANproject
in 2001. VLC includes a large number
of free decoding and encoding libraries
and can play almost any media file
without any plug-ins. It became very
popular because it is free and has
many features.

Image editor
is
acomputer
programthat
allows
users
topaintand
editpicturesinteractively on the computer screen and save them in one of
many popular "bitmap" or "raster"formatssuch asJPEG,PNG,GIFandTIFF.

Microsoft Paint

Paint.net

Adobe Photoshop

Example

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshopis araster graphics editordeveloped and published byAdobe
SystemsforWindowsandOS X in 1990. It has many features and is widely used by
professional photographers, designers, studios and various companies. Photoshop
has become thede factoindustry standard in image editing, such that the terms
"photoshopping" and "photoshop contest" were born.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game
http://www.readersdigest.com.au/the-pros-and-cons-of-playing-computer-gam
es
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game