LO4: Idea

Idea:

Frist Person shooter where you play as a free running assassin

Draft 1:

A FSP a freelance US government assassins, where your job is to infaltuate, gather information and take down dictatorships and organisation.

Draft 2:

Play as a modern day assassin in first person. You are working for the US government to infiltrate, gather information and take down a dictatorships and organisation with any means nessersory. Communicate with you handerler back at HQ 

Draft 3:

LO3: Brainstorm of game to review

Five possible games to review:
- Fifa 15
- Halo
- Assassins Creed 2
- GTA V
- Ghost Recon

Two Games I cloud review

1)  Fifa 15
   - Sports,
   -Males age: 10-19 actual age: 10-40.
   -platforms ( Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, PC, Wii U, Android, IOS, 3DS & Windows Phone)
2) Halo 3
  - First person shooter
  - Male: 10-30
  - Platforms (Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 & PC)

LO2: Importance of reviews for the marketing and promotion of computer console game

How Each Review is Affected by the Media it is Published in.

The video review is easier to understand because we can see gameplay, it also lets you able to make your own assumptions about the game, instead of being told and not experiencing it.

The magazine review only give picture to look at but doesn't show you working animation, this means that the writing has to be more descriptive. However this is doesn't let you see for yourself what the game is like, which means this could a propaganda. However this is the same for the video.

How each review follows stylistic conventions of the media.

The video starts of with an intro to the game then talks about what it does goof then what it does bad, this has game play and a voice of the game play about it. This often the person playing who has reviewed it.

Comparison.

Both of analysis talk about the genre in the same that is a sports simulations but they then both go to talk about the go on talk about who it is one of best graphically.

As this game sports simulation they both go on to talk about the native in the same way. They both say the same thing about the career mode being boring and repetitive after a while. In this game they is an online mode what both say good but needs work as there servers can be slow. Other than that both reviewers say that this fun game when playing with friends on quick start.

The reviewers don't go talk about the productions process however the magazine does that the game works well as it runs of Ignite. But i think is advertisement as Ignite is an engine exclusively to Xbox One and the Magazine is by Xbox.

As the characters are real the reviewers both say that characters are extremely immaculate realistic and look very cool. The magazine say that they is a DLC is coming out to get Brucie Lee however the video says that he thinks its cool that they have done that but you can unlock him by completing  the career mode.

The magazine say that it is the best fighting game on a console and the video agress. The video goes on to say that is hard to lern the hit componations of diffrent players but once you get usto it really good.

The video says that you would love this games if you like game fighting games and UFC,  this is the same for magazine but they dont go into to age just over 16 would enjoy.

The video review say that you can get UFC on Xbox One or PS4. However, Xbox magazine says only say it's on xbox because why would they advertise for a driffrent console.

Both reviews say that UFC is a great game and recomend this to people who like games of this genre and people are intersing fighting would recomed playing it and buying.

LO1: Bussiness Report

Sumo Digital 

Sumo Digital is an independent game development company what are based in Sheffield but have office in India. They have made 40 titles, in the 13 years what they have been operating for. Sumo now primarily work for Sony and Microsoft, this makes them unique cause they are one of few studios what work on PlayStations and Xbox platforms.

Below is the Hierarchy of the company

Carl Carvers ( MD F9E Europe)

One of the co-founders of Sumo, he worked at Atari (formally Gremlin) as Studio manager.

Paul Potter 

Mr Potter worked at Rolls Royce doing Scientific Software Development working on nuclear plant modelling. He then went on to right code for Broken Sword, after he went on to mange the creation of cross platform development systems. He then went on to Co-Found Sumo  

Darren Mills 

Mills worked as a Cameraman, editor , designer and animator for Sky, ITV and BBC. Joining Gremlin in 1995 he worked on titles as well as being a lead artist. He went on to become a Co-founder

Ash Benet

His first job was with Gremlin in 1989  writing games for C64, going on to work for SNES, NES and PC. He then went to Probe Entertainment 

Garry Edwards 

He was a programmer at Gremlin in 96’, he was OEM producer and worked with loads of hardware companies. I helped start infogames in 2000. He re-joined he former colleagues at summon as executive producer. The in 2009 he was promoted to Development Director.

Sean Millard

He had been designing games for companies though the 90’s and he joind sumo in 2003 and in 2011 he was promoted to Creative Director.

Steven Zalud

 He joined Gremlin as producer and since he has been promoted to the Director of Product Development at Sumo.

Development 

Sumo build their own engine, they also build their own tools. However, they have been know to work on other engines when collaborating. Sumo Digital also use of the self products such as; Z Brush, Maya, 3D Studio Mac, Adobe Photoshop.

Platform Technology

Sumo over the last 12 years have built up a large portfolio of games. They have been licensed to make games for many different consoles.

For example Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed is available on;

• Wii U- this was lunched with the release of this next gen console and managed to beat Mario Cart in sales.
• Nintendo 3DS
• Xbox 360
• PS3
• PS Vita 
• Pc
• Ios
• Android

Sumo are able to develop on next gen consoles; Wii U (what they made Sonic All Star Racing Transformed), Xbox One (what they made Xbox Fitness) and Play Station 4 (which they took over the Little Big Planet series and made Little Big Planet 3). 

Regulatory Bodies

PEGI are the regulators for video games. It’s in now law that a game has to have a PEGI rating since 2012. They are 8 factors what are taking in factor when rating a game; Online, Sex, Violence, Gambling, Drug Use, Fear and Profanities. Games have age ratings these are; 3,7,12,16,18. These are suggested age ratings as it relates to the maturity rating.

Here’s and example of a PEGI rating.

Game Types

Sumo established them selves making racing games, the first game they made was Outrun. Since they have made racing games like; Sonic and All Stars Racing, Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed and Forza Horizon 2.

Sumo Digital game genres are; Racing(outrun), Sport(Xbox Fitness) and adventure (Little Big Planet 3).

LO1: Feed Forward

I need to cover more of the companies development and structure as in the criteria.
Need to correct homophones.
Use correct terminology.
Add plurals.