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P2A-Genre
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Everybody’s gone to the Rapture only has one main genre that
it fits into and that is the adventure game genre, this is because the gameplay
involves making the player explore the fictional village that was set up for
the game and just involves them solving clues meaning there is nothing such as
action involved within the game. On top of that the game also fits into the
first-person genre as the character that the player plays with spends the whole
game in first-person while they are doing their exploring.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Assassins Creed has three big genres that it fits into, this
includes an action game, an action-adventure game and most importantly a
stealth game. The gameplay fits into these genres perfectly, the game is
definitely an action-adventure game due to the fact that there is obviously
action in the game but on top of that the game has massive maps that allows the
player to fully explore them and use the environment of that map to their
advantage. The game also fits into the stealth genre well as well due to the
fact that the player is playing with an assassin meaning his whole way of going
about things involves him being stealthy to avoid detection, for example the
game itself involved a lot of things such as tailing people but in order to not
get detected the player would have to do things such as hide between the
crowds.
Minecraft
Minecraft fits under many different types of game genres such
as survival world, role-playing, action and sandbox. The games main genre is
the open world genre however. This is mainly down to the massive worlds that
the player is put in where he can choose to do what he wants such as building
things of his choice such as creative mode where the player is free to do
whatever he wants. The other mini-genres that the game fits into such as
survival mode makes sense as this relates to the game mode within the game known
as survival. In this mode the player has to create things such as places to
live while also collecting food and resources such as iron or coal to help them
survive.
That Dragon Cancer
The main genre associated with That Dragon Cancer is the
point and click genre, this is because the game has simplistic controls that
involves the player interacting with the game by selecting certain things for
the main character Joel to do, this could involve getting the character to
communicate with someone in the game by clicking on them or by making Joel do
something within the game e.g. there is a part were you have to make Joel play
on the swings and to do that you have to click on the swing. The game can also
be classed as a sub-genre of the art game genre due to its surreal and real
life experiences that are within the game.
P2B-Narrative/Storyline
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Everybody’s gone to the Rapture is set in a small fictional
English village in the 1980’s called Yaughton which is meant to be in
Shropshire, England. You soon discover during the game that all the inhabitants
of the village have disappeared and it is your role to find out where they have
disappeared to and why. To do this the game shows off things such as old
telephone calls or radio broadcasts, the game also features mysterious floating
orbs of light within the sky. From time to time these orbs of light turn into
human-shaped lights which re-enact past events which have taken place. With all
these clues eventually the player can piece together all the information to
find out what happened to all the inhabitants of Yaughton.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Brotherhood follows on Desmond’s and Ezio’s storyline from
the Assassins Creed II storyline, after Desmond and the team escapes the
Templars attack which took place at the end of Assassin’s Creed II they flee to
Monteriggioni. Once the animus is set back up the player then gets to continue
Ezio’s story which is seen through Desmond’s eyes. In it the main role of the
game is for Ezio to acquire the Apple of Eden which is an extremely powerful
object which can cause serious problems if it falls into the wrong hands such
as the Templars. When the player is finally re-united with Ezio they find
themselves in 1499 where Ezio escapes from Rome with his uncle Mario Auditore
where they also return to Monteriggioni. However, once his uncle is killed by
the Borgias and the Apple falls in Cesare Borgias (who also killed Mario) and
the Templars hands. Ezio returns to Rome with his family and once again finds
himself on a mission of vengeance and takes lead of the assassins who are
currently losing the war against the Templars. Once he takes lead of the
assassins he creates a brotherhood which will be strong enough to take down the
Borgias and the Templars.
Minecraft
Minecraft itself doesn’t particularly have a storyline to it
as there is no actual campaign that comes with the game. Instead the game is
more focused on the creative side and mainly just has different modes on it for
players to engage in, the biggest example of this is creative mode that is on
the game, this gives a player access to all the resources within the game to
let them build whatever they feel like building and it also means they won’t
die from starvation as they don’t need to eat food to survive like they need to
in survival mode. This then leads me onto survival mode which is another
popular game mode within Minecraft, survival mode is what I described in the
earlier paragraph but on top of that it is more of an online mode as you tend
to find more groups of people participating on the survival mode.
That Dragon Cancer
The storyline of That Dragon Cancer is quite a heartfelt one
as it depicts the life of a young boy whose name is Joel Green, the game is
based off real life events and tells a truthful story of the young boy Joel
Green when he had cancer. The game shows the 4 year fight that Joel had with
cancer and puts it into a game to give someone an experience and small idea of
what it’s like to be put into that situation. Although the game sounds
seriously sad and depressing (which it still is) it also uses colourful and
creative techniques to make the experience of the game more enjoyable for
anyone who purchased it.
P2C-Production
Process
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
The idea for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was actually
inspired during the making of another game which was called Dear Esther. It was
inspired when the developers team, The Chinese Room wanted to add interactive
features to their current game Dear Esther but that proved to be too
impractical. Other inspirations include the British apocalyptic science fiction
of the 60’s and 70’s such as The Death of Grass by John Christopher. Because of
this the game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was born. Although the game is
still classed as an indie game it did something that not many games in the
indie genre would do and that was partner up with Sony rather than do tactics
such as crowdfunding. The reason for the company partnering with Sony is
because they didn’t feel they would earn enough off the crowdfunding technique
or through other techniques such as releasing alpha versions, so decided to
take a different technique. The game also needed a soundtrack, this task was
set upon Jessica Curry and was then released as a 28-track album in Britain
only. This then led to a Windows version of the game being released on the 14th
April 2016 as well the PlayStation.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
The game was developed by a subsidiary of Ubisoft, Ubisoft
Montreal, this was down to the fact that Ubisoft Montreal was behind the first
Assassins Creed as well as the second instalment meaning they could be trusted.
One thing that was new regarding the game was the fact that it now for the
first time offered multiplayer to the game. Despite the fact that a majority of
the game was developed in Montreal Canada at Ubisoft Montreal it was also
supported by Ubisoft owned companies, this included Annecy, Singapore,
Bucharest and Quebec City. In fact, the multiplayer which was new to the game
was mainly developed by Annecy and not Montreal. On top of the games release
there were two sets of big DLC’s that were released that were free for players
to download. The first one was called Animus Project Update 1.0 and the second
was called Animus Project Update 2.0. The first DLC included a new map and new
mode, while the second DLC once again included a new map and new mode and also
introduced a player grading system. The game was also different in the sense
that it didn’t have a number to follow up with the title to let the gamer know
which instalment it was, this was down to the fact that Brotherhood was a
follow up to Assassins Creed II meaning it still had similar settings and
characters. Ubisoft feared they would confuse players by calling it Assassins
Creed III as then they would have expected a whole new game and not a
continuation of the Ezio story. There were some problems leading up to the
games release, this happened when the creative director of Ubisoft, Patrice
Desilets left before the game could be presented at the E3 2010, however, the
production manager of Ubisoft Jean-Francois Boivin claimed this was just a
creative break. At the E3 2010, Ubisoft showed off a cinematic trailer to go
with the game as well as a walkthrough that went through the beginning of the
game.
Minecraft
Minecraft was developed by Markus Persson and was only
originally developed as a project for himself and was based off inspirations
from the past that he had such as Dungeon Keeper and one of the biggest and
most apparent influences in the game, Infimmier. When the game was in early
development a few prototypes had been made which showed an isometric 3D
building game which was in first person and included RPG elements to it. After
feeling satisfied with the game Persson released the game to the public on the
17th May 2009 on TIGSource forums and was classed as a development release,
throughout that time further game modes were added to the game such as the
survival mode between 2009 and February 2010 and on top of that updates were
also released with the first major update being the alpha version update which
was released on the 28th June 2010. This soon led to the games
popularity rising which caused a problem for Persson who for the early stages
of the game also had a day job with Jalbum.net, however, once the game began to
rise in popularity he quit his day job to keep on top of the game and then
followed that up by creating his own game company to make it easier for himself
as he now wasn’t the only person working on the game. The company that he
created he called Mojang, this was only possible to do with the money Persson
had already received off the game. After creating his own games company on the
11th December 2010 it was announced the Minecraft game had
officially moved into the testing stage on the 20th December 2010.
After getting past the testing phase the official full Minecraft game was
released on the 18th November 2011 to the public.
That Dragon Cancer
That Dragon Cancer is based off the developer’s experiences
of when their son (Joel Green) had his 4 year battle with cancer, the game was
made as a way to remember Joel after he subsequently lost his battle with
cancer and also as a sort of eye opener to people to show what they actually
had to go through. The game during production hit a lot of problems such as
backers constantly pulling out of funding the game due to how sensitive the
subject of it was, this led to 70% of the game being re-wrote to stop the
backers pulling out and for them to be able to complete the game. The
re-writing of the game made it so players would be more focussed on
interactions with Joel. However, the parents still needed money to make the
game due to them losing 70% of their backers, so with the backing of Ouya they
set up a Kickstarter campaign, the aim was to raise $85,000, however, after
gaining 3,700 backers they managed to raise $100,000. Another problem the team
had while creating the game was the fact that they didn’t have the technical
capability to put faces on the characters of the game, as a result no character
within the game has an actual face.
P2D-Characters
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
When it comes to Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture there are
five areas within the actual game, each area revolves around a different
character but the main two are Stephen Appleton who is scientist at the
observatory at the village and his wife Dr Katherine Collins also known as Kate
who like her husband is also a scientist at the observatory.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Assassins Creed Brotherhood has a whole range of different
characters which Ezio encounters, however, there seems to be 3 main characters
in the game. The first one being Ezio himself who is the leading assassin
within the game and has the whole story based around his travels and fights
with the Borgias. The next being Desmond, Desmond is the reason we see Ezio’s
story as we see it through his eyes due to the animus as Ezio is one of Desmond’s
ancestors. Players also get to do quite a few side missions with Desmond as he
tries to escape the Templars grip himself.
Minecraft
The only real character within Minecraft is called Steve,
Steve is the character that the players control within the classic mode of
Minecraft. However, after that there aren’t really any characters. For example,
in modes such as survival the player plays his own character which is a default
which he gets to get add things such as his own skins to.
That Dragon Cancer
The main character of the game is Joel Green as the game
itself is based off Joel’s fight with cancer for 4 years, in it he is only a
little boy. The rest of the characters are mainly just family such as Joel’s
parents who feature in the game quite a lot.
P2E-Gameplay
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
The gameplay involved with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture involves
the player exploring the small English town Yaughton. In it the player can interact
with the weird floating lights that can be found in the sky, this is useful as
it can reveal parts of the story and give off clues, on top of that the player
can interact with what would be classed as man-made objects e.g. doors, phones,
radios and so on.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Assassins Creed Brotherhood has a big emphasis on the
nonlinear, sandbox style gameplay as well as other gameplay techniques such as
parkour movements, crowd-blending stealth, assassinations and on top of that a
melee fighting system. The game also offered multiplayer for the first time and
around 15 or more hours of single player gameplay. The game is set in Rome and
allows things such as a management system where the player can recruit new
members to the assassins by destroying things called Borgia towers, in the game
itself there are 12. The game also allowed players to invest within the city
and help it grow and it also had a much bigger feature on horses which could
now be used within the city and be used as a means of combat.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a three-dimensional sandbox game that can be
played in first person and third person perspectives, the game when being
played on classic/creative mode doesn’t actually possess any actual goals
meaning the player has as much freedom as he wants within the game. However, it
is not the same in all the game modes. Game modes such as survival provide much
more of a challenge to the player, in this mode the player has to create things
such as places to live while also collecting food and resources such as iron or
coal to help them survive.
That Dragon Cancer
That Dragon Cancer mixes between first and third person
within the game while telling the story to give a different prospective within
the game. The game also allows players to use interaction methods within the
game such as allowing them to make choices that they are presented with. The game
also offers a mix of surreal and dream like experiences to the player to keep
the game more fun considering the dark subject that it is covering.
P2F-Target Audience
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is obviously one for the
indie gamers as it is still an indie game despite the fact that it was sold on
the PS4 and funded by Sony. Another gaming audience that it fits into arguably
is the non-traditional gaming audience, this is because it is not a very
traditional audience that play these kind of games and that is arguably why
Sony funded it as it offered something new.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Arguably the biggest audience for Assassins Creed Brotherhood
is the more hard-core gamers, this is because it is a massively well-known game
with a massive storyline to it and also includes quite complex controls to it
meaning you would have to know what you were doing to play the game, the same
also applies to the mid-core gamers as they would have a sufficient amount of knowledge.
Another possible audience is the professional gamers audience; this is because the
professional gamers like to play the biggest games out and Assassins Creed
Brotherhood definitely fits into that as it is part of a massive gaming series.
Minecraft
Minecraft could arguably fit into the casual gamer audience,
this is down to the fact that there are no actual levels to the game or actual
aims and if the player just sticks to creative mode they can just do what they
want and pick up where they left off anytime they want. Another possible
audience is the older gamers audience; this is down to the fact that they don’t
have a lot of time to now play games but still enjoy to. Minecraft is good for
this as it is a nice relaxing game with no actual aims meaning the older gamer
can come and go when they please and it is also simple meaning if they didn’t understand
the new controllers and so on they would pick it up very quickly.
That Dragon Cancer
That Dragon Cancer is aimed at audiences such as the
non-traditional gaming audience, it fits into this audience due to the story of
the actual game, this is down to the fact that the story of the game is not a
traditional one and wouldn’t have anyone who would casually play this game. Another
target audience it fits into is the casual gamer audience, this is down to the
fact that it is a game that is available on platforms such as the iPhone meaning
you don’t need a games console to play it and on top of that only needs the
player to mainly just click the screen meaning it is nice and simple for them.
P2G-Platforms
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Due to Sony funding Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture the game
was made available on the PS4 and was made available on its original platform PC
and Mac.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Was made available on the PS3 and Xbox 360 when it was first
released, due to its popularity it will now be released as a remastered version
on the PS4 and Xbox One with the other Assassins Creed games that involve the
Ezio story.
Minecraft
Minecraft is available on virtually every platform there is
due to the popularity of it, it is available on the PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Mac
as well as recently the iPhone.
That Dragon Cancer
That Dragon Cancer is available on multiple platforms which includes
the Mac and PC as well the iPhone, for the Mac or PC the game can be downloaded
through the companies own website or off another distribution website such as
steam.
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