Showing posts with label Alistair McGreavy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alistair McGreavy. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Marketing strategy - Senor Tom Arto: Escape
'Senor Tom Arto: Escape' is a platform adventure escape game, following a Mexican tomato called Tom Arto, who has to avoid various dangers and perils in order to escape his captors and the kitchen. The player will control Tom and aid him on his journey by guiding him around the kitchen and household, making use of the touch screen, by tapping to jump over threats.
Upon reaching 'special obsticals' the camera will change, and the player will use the accelerometer. These 'special obsticals' include things like blenders, where players must steer Tom around the outside, being careful not to fall in, spoon spring boards, where players need flick the Ipod up at the right time to launch Tom across large gaps, and toy-car steering where the Ipod acts as a steering wheel.
There will be 10 levels of varying difficulty.
Level 1 will act as a tutorial level,Tom has to escaped from the fridge by climbing down shelves to bribe a potato to open the fridge door for him.
Level 2 will introduce threats, such as swinging knifes and the like for the player to avoid. Tom will need to get to the mouse hole to ask for directions. He will then need to collect some peanut butter for the Itallian mouse Ezio.
Level 3 is where Tom finds a toy car, and has to use it to avoid the cat, Hugo, the ipod would then turn to a steering wheel. You have to get Tom away from the cat with out being caught and 'eaten' and into the living room.
Level 4 brings Tom into the hallway. In here he is no longer in a car and he has to run through the hall moving out of the way of the different type of dog and cat toys in the way by moving side to side and jumping. However when he gets to the end of the hallway he can not escape as the dog is blocking the way in front of the dog flap. This is when he gets picked up by a person and taken up the stairs into a room.
Level 5 The escape starts again starting with him starting by escaping from the bedroom.
...And so on.
There are also 'bonus levels' which is where Tom finds special entrances to different rooms or cupboards where he can collect coins. These coins can then be used to buy costumes such as a Tuxedo and Top Hat and other special costumes for different times of year such as Christmas and Easter. The coins will also help him in the levels to get help from animals like the mouse and other talking food.
Our typical gamer would be around the ages 7-18, both male and female and own an Ipod touch/Iphone/Ipad. This is because people who are older would find it too childish and people younger would find it too challenging.
The USP of our game is that he's a tomato and you can use motion sensor functions.
It will cost 59p to download and you can also download the first level for free. You could also buy your own coins for the game to buy the special costumes etc.
Upon reaching 'special obsticals' the camera will change, and the player will use the accelerometer. These 'special obsticals' include things like blenders, where players must steer Tom around the outside, being careful not to fall in, spoon spring boards, where players need flick the Ipod up at the right time to launch Tom across large gaps, and toy-car steering where the Ipod acts as a steering wheel.
There will be 10 levels of varying difficulty.
Level 1 will act as a tutorial level,Tom has to escaped from the fridge by climbing down shelves to bribe a potato to open the fridge door for him.
Level 2 will introduce threats, such as swinging knifes and the like for the player to avoid. Tom will need to get to the mouse hole to ask for directions. He will then need to collect some peanut butter for the Itallian mouse Ezio.
Level 3 is where Tom finds a toy car, and has to use it to avoid the cat, Hugo, the ipod would then turn to a steering wheel. You have to get Tom away from the cat with out being caught and 'eaten' and into the living room.
Level 4 brings Tom into the hallway. In here he is no longer in a car and he has to run through the hall moving out of the way of the different type of dog and cat toys in the way by moving side to side and jumping. However when he gets to the end of the hallway he can not escape as the dog is blocking the way in front of the dog flap. This is when he gets picked up by a person and taken up the stairs into a room.
Level 5 The escape starts again starting with him starting by escaping from the bedroom.
...And so on.
There are also 'bonus levels' which is where Tom finds special entrances to different rooms or cupboards where he can collect coins. These coins can then be used to buy costumes such as a Tuxedo and Top Hat and other special costumes for different times of year such as Christmas and Easter. The coins will also help him in the levels to get help from animals like the mouse and other talking food.
Our typical gamer would be around the ages 7-18, both male and female and own an Ipod touch/Iphone/Ipad. This is because people who are older would find it too childish and people younger would find it too challenging.
The USP of our game is that he's a tomato and you can use motion sensor functions.
It will cost 59p to download and you can also download the first level for free. You could also buy your own coins for the game to buy the special costumes etc.
Friday, 8 April 2011
Video Games by Alistair :D
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Legend
Puzzle action adventure in third person where the aim was to find a weapon and save the world. It probably appeals to teenagers, both male and female, as there's the sex appeal for boys, and the role model of the heroin for females.
The camera can get annoying, so when trying to do a tricky jumping or climbing puzzle it can switch angles all of a sudden making you fail. and. Because of the lack of objective marker, it can be easy to get lost.
GTA: Liberty City
A violent shooter game biased around car theft and crime. Due to violence, blood, weapons. crime, drug use, sex, etc. this game is rated 18, and is probably aimed at 18-28 year-old males, although, it does also have a large younger fan base.
Because people under the age rating play this game, the glorification of crime and drugs is a down point, along with it having, I feel, rather unusual controls.
Canis Canem
A PS2 game where you play a school boy who goes around doing normal school boy stuff (standing up to bullies, hitting people etc). It's probably aimed at young teens as the age rating is a 15.
Unless you already know what you're meant to do, you'll be stuck playing tedious and rather tricky mini games.
Red Dead
PS3 and rated 18.
A third person shooter probably aimed at late teens to young men because of graphic and violent content (such as skinning a dead horse).
Although over all has fun game play and a very good rep in gaming circles, the HUD is poor, the controls are confusing and the camera is hard to use.
Time Splitters 2
Multi-player FPS rated 15 and for the gamecube.
Probably aimed at boys to young teens as it has a has a younger theme (time travel? This is what the name hinted at.)
The graphics were poor (understandable, as on gamecube), the consoles where hard (again, gamecube have strange controllers, which I am unfamiliar with). Plus, it was hard to re-map the controls and was seemingly stuck on inverted. Most FPS sell well due to weapon customisation, however, in this game you were stuck using dual wield weapons, which are largely hated though out gaming circles and are often called Nooby.
Super Mario Sunshine
A 3+ adventure for the gamecube aimed at young children due to bright colours and positive messages.
Puzzle action adventure in third person where the aim was to find a weapon and save the world. It probably appeals to teenagers, both male and female, as there's the sex appeal for boys, and the role model of the heroin for females.
The camera can get annoying, so when trying to do a tricky jumping or climbing puzzle it can switch angles all of a sudden making you fail. and. Because of the lack of objective marker, it can be easy to get lost.
GTA: Liberty City
A violent shooter game biased around car theft and crime. Due to violence, blood, weapons. crime, drug use, sex, etc. this game is rated 18, and is probably aimed at 18-28 year-old males, although, it does also have a large younger fan base.
Because people under the age rating play this game, the glorification of crime and drugs is a down point, along with it having, I feel, rather unusual controls.
Canis Canem
A PS2 game where you play a school boy who goes around doing normal school boy stuff (standing up to bullies, hitting people etc). It's probably aimed at young teens as the age rating is a 15.
Unless you already know what you're meant to do, you'll be stuck playing tedious and rather tricky mini games.
Red Dead
PS3 and rated 18.
A third person shooter probably aimed at late teens to young men because of graphic and violent content (such as skinning a dead horse).
Although over all has fun game play and a very good rep in gaming circles, the HUD is poor, the controls are confusing and the camera is hard to use.
Time Splitters 2
Multi-player FPS rated 15 and for the gamecube.
Probably aimed at boys to young teens as it has a has a younger theme (time travel? This is what the name hinted at.)
The graphics were poor (understandable, as on gamecube), the consoles where hard (again, gamecube have strange controllers, which I am unfamiliar with). Plus, it was hard to re-map the controls and was seemingly stuck on inverted. Most FPS sell well due to weapon customisation, however, in this game you were stuck using dual wield weapons, which are largely hated though out gaming circles and are often called Nooby.
Super Mario Sunshine
A 3+ adventure for the gamecube aimed at young children due to bright colours and positive messages.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Minecraft :D
Developing and Publishing
Minecraft is a first/third person sandbox game created and developed by Markus Persson (more commonly know as Notch), and his company, Mojang for the PC. The game runs on Java.
Mojang is a Swedish company (Mjang being Swedish for gadget) made up of 8 people, including Notch, and was founded in 2009 using the proceeds from Minecraft.
The game is currently in Beta 1.4 testing stage (Beta testing started on December 20th 2010) free ‘Minecraft Classic is also available. Both versions have single player and online multiplayer, Beta offers updates and bug patches where classic doesn't.
Distribution
Minecraft, still being in Beta stages, hasn't been fully distributed yet, On January 12, 2011, Minecraft passed 1,000,000 purchases, less than a month after reaching Beta. At the same time, the game had no publisher backing and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth. Word has been spread best by youtube "Let's Plays" by the likes of BannanapieLord, David64rt and AwesomeMattG.
By April 2011, Persson estimated that Minecraft had made €23 million (US$33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game at €9.95, and over 1 million sales of the beta version at €14.95.
Consumer Input
The fan base for Minecraft is large, and many have had some from of creative input in to the game, some have made videos for YouTube advertising the game, other have made their own add ons and DLC style work such a mods, texture and map packs.
Popular mods include Mo' Creatures , which adds more animals, both friendly and hostile (everything from duck to unicorns to lions) to the game.
There's a ton of texture packs upfor download, most of which are free, which add a different look to Minecraft. Some make colours more vivid or realistic to add the real RPG feel, others more cartoony for comedy apeal. One of the most popular is Painterly Pack which gives a native-resolution high-quality reskin. Any player has the ability to reskin thier character, by making a Minecraft account and editing their own personal skin, there are also many character re-skins online which offer look alike of popular video games characters, such as Dead Space's Issac Clark or the Scout and Heavy from TF2.
Map packs give a new challenge to those who have grown weary of 'Vanilla Minecraft' or a nicer area for the creatily challenged or people who fnd buliding hard. The most notebale map pack is probably Survival Island, where the player has to live on a tiny island and attemt to find the Curator's Lost Treasure buried deep below. Another could be Minecraft Obstacle, which constits of a serise of puzzles and jumping challenges to test the player.
Minecraft is a first/third person sandbox game created and developed by Markus Persson (more commonly know as Notch), and his company, Mojang for the PC. The game runs on Java.
Mojang is a Swedish company (Mjang being Swedish for gadget) made up of 8 people, including Notch, and was founded in 2009 using the proceeds from Minecraft.
The game is currently in Beta 1.4 testing stage (Beta testing started on December 20th 2010) free ‘Minecraft Classic is also available. Both versions have single player and online multiplayer, Beta offers updates and bug patches where classic doesn't.
Distribution
Minecraft, still being in Beta stages, hasn't been fully distributed yet, On January 12, 2011, Minecraft passed 1,000,000 purchases, less than a month after reaching Beta. At the same time, the game had no publisher backing and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth. Word has been spread best by youtube "Let's Plays" by the likes of BannanapieLord, David64rt and AwesomeMattG.
By April 2011, Persson estimated that Minecraft had made €23 million (US$33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game at €9.95, and over 1 million sales of the beta version at €14.95.
Consumer Input
The fan base for Minecraft is large, and many have had some from of creative input in to the game, some have made videos for YouTube advertising the game, other have made their own add ons and DLC style work such a mods, texture and map packs.
Popular mods include Mo' Creatures , which adds more animals, both friendly and hostile (everything from duck to unicorns to lions) to the game.
There's a ton of texture packs upfor download, most of which are free, which add a different look to Minecraft. Some make colours more vivid or realistic to add the real RPG feel, others more cartoony for comedy apeal. One of the most popular is Painterly Pack which gives a native-resolution high-quality reskin. Any player has the ability to reskin thier character, by making a Minecraft account and editing their own personal skin, there are also many character re-skins online which offer look alike of popular video games characters, such as Dead Space's Issac Clark or the Scout and Heavy from TF2.
Map packs give a new challenge to those who have grown weary of 'Vanilla Minecraft' or a nicer area for the creatily challenged or people who fnd buliding hard. The most notebale map pack is probably Survival Island, where the player has to live on a tiny island and attemt to find the Curator's Lost Treasure buried deep below. Another could be Minecraft Obstacle, which constits of a serise of puzzles and jumping challenges to test the player.
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