Always the same forward to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the right to foals who had decided to put their trust in us. My name is jen paris and i work at the. Living in the digital age. Coming up Computer Generated mythical worlds amazing animation and an art for st kitts but first game designer has become a modern dream job and the industry is booming at this years german computer game awards the best were recognized to awards an account a great concept by young talents went to teams from berlin universities. The arias all virtual space force came third in the new comer category in this game players get to build their end space station which they then have to defend against approaching enemies team or fight is one of the developments. Of info finish what i find super fascinating about Virtual Reality is that it offers so much potential for innovative games in the price. A lot of room for creativity and thats why i find game design so intriguing isnt it. Thats exactly what hes studying at butlins university of Applied Science and he and his team want to explore all the possibilities offered by virtual space. They want players to be able to look at a space station from all angles and use the controls as if they were their own hands. And they can turn thomas ive always been into games all kinds of games ever since i was a Kid Listening to some much that i wanted to make my own or change others but i started making cartoon board games with my friends and eventually moved on to digital components and programming. Video games has become a ubiquitous part of life since the one nine hundred seventy s. This year alone the booming industry is expected to make between seventy five and one hundred million euros. Its one of more than two hundred Game Developers in berlin when young which i can was head of the company it had the main just some of the mobile game jelly splash its been downloaded more than seventy million times games designers have become increasingly professional over the past few years. By growing their game there used to be a lot of people from other fields. But now the game design is a degree course at university and the industry has established itself there are more and more specialists who have grown up in the Games Industry works. With their specializes in social and mobile games which is a rapidly growing sector alongside more traditional computer and video games. So theres plenty of work for game designers. Game design has already been a course in berlin for eight years only forty applique. Except his into the coveted Degree Program and. Teaching methods are not traditional. Project teams so they can share their ideas and skills. Game design doesnt pass game design is the whole area of Game Development incompetence design aspects visual aspects System Design of programming and technical implementation and. Experimentation is a prime min amount the jump and run game dio uses a new kind of split screen the game till come first prize at the twenty seven thousand german video games awards the winners got forty five thousand euros cash and access to more opportunities. To come to. The award gives us a chance to continue making games along the same lines as dio and to gain a foothold in the Games Industry. And who sits with us and most. Women dont reduce were going to make the most of the attention the award is giving us and use the prize money to start our own company as we do. To begin with they want to remain independent and be their own bosses thatll make it easier for them to follow their creative instincts. Shift sounds a playful way to make money. Time now for the shift right this time we have the best selling video games of two thousand and seventeen in first place oh come on sun and moon its sold two point six million times a british Data Analysis company has looked into this years most successful video games once again the latest adventure is about collecting poker moms and battling your rivals childs play. Involved plays. Manlio card hey deluxe another nintendo hit the japanese Game Developers about dated their cult racing game its got razor sharp super fast gameplay and novel combat options three point four million buyers are tearing up the road. Rise in zero dawn sold three point six million times and is this years third favorite stone age tribes meet cyberpunks best game has won numerous awards but will the huntress alloy really be able to save humankind. What is it the end. In second place is the legend of zelda a breath of the wild its the latest version of the one thousand nine hundred six counts classic that it sold four million times link the protagonist can roam vast and endless spaces. At the top is fee for eighteen this latest installment of the football series boasts realistically animated players thanks to Motion Capture Technology it sold six point two million copies making it this years most successful game. That was this weeks ranking. The british artist howard lee is a master of optical illusions hes gone at many online fans with his clips and hyper realistic drawings but hes also confounded a lot of them deliberately. Which object is real and which is a trolling. These videos are standard everyday objects that theyre not as real as they seem. Currently challenges his view is to spot the difference testing their preconceptions. Of people its people to question the reality of. What makes a video great is the moment. Which becomes something you didnt expect it to be so whether its that you were looking at a drawing you didnt realize was a drawing or whether you were looking at a drawing that then started moving and becomes an animation and mixes with reality. Draws the objects but he also films themselves as his drawing and he regards the final video as the work of us and he often post the result on instagram when he already has almost one hundred seventy five thousand followers its not elitist in any way it doesnt require somebody to endorse it or to put money behind it it doesnt matter how old you are or how experienced you are how qualified you are anybody can be drawing video painting an artwork or video creation or anything online and its judged purely on its own merits. And base is growing by the minute and so is this bank account hes not only selling his prints and drawings hes also making commercials. How it used to teach us in new castle in Northern England that he has been devoting most of his time to making videos since twenty fifteen hes learnt a lot of the techniques online. Its been learned through other people demonstrating it in no videos on instagram or on youtube into toils if i need to learn something the first place i go as you tube to try and find somebody to teach me how to do it normally i can. Hes also trying his hand at animation. Models are starting to appear in some of his videos. His characters from hollywood films. Is it real or is it fake cowardly. It makes you wonder if only for a second. Shift is mind boggling. Now short and sweet the shift shot. There are some twenty thousand homeless youths on the streets of germany gloria used to be one of them but now hes one of the developers behind. And now for helping young people in need. The momentum on the line when you land on the streets alone you lose your points of contact but the app can help you find out where you can sleep where you can eat. It helps you to become more independent. Most young People Living on the street do at least have a smartphone its often their last link to a seemingly normal world. With moakley they can use what sound to chat they can find out about where to eat sleep health care and also about three thousand drop in Centers Across germany which are easy to find why google maps now the developing team hopes to expand the app so that it eventually covers all of europe. That was the upshot do you want to find out more about the Digital World then check out our Facebook Page d w digital there youll find all the latest news and trends as well as interesting apps exciting gadgets and even tutorials and of course all the shift reports are there for you to see like us post your comments give us your opinions d. W. Digital. As always we leave shifting through the exit. For our internet find of the week the rocky road to rock stardom. Artist neil mendoza created the rock band of his own but not an traditional rock band with a lead. Singer a drummer and the guitarist his band is made of rocks member plays electro mechanical music here it is playing the beatles classic here comes the sun. And next time on shared. A syrian refugee camp in jordan here refugees can now pay for their Grocery Shopping via iris scanning the World Food ProgramInitiative Uses this Block Chain Technology transparency in humanitarian aid programs next time on shift. They sought refuge and found a prison tens of thousands of refugees are languishing on the greek island of lesbos without water electricity or health care. They wait for months for their asylum applications to be processed. The locals can barely count its a breeding ground for violence. Next on d w. W. A winter paradise nestled in the swiss alps. 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