Summer Holiday Homeworks:

1. A Prezi (or similar) of a genre of game. This should have an explanation or a definition of what the genre is you’re going to be looking at and then a selection of screenshots that somehow demonstrate different aspects of that genre. The screenshots should have the name of the game, year released and platform releaed on, as well as the description of what each game shows about that genre.

 2. Using a photo pinning website or callage maker, collect a range of screenshots that eflects the variety of styles in ONE genre. This genre should be one you haven’t looked at yet. Inbclude as many photos as possible and include MINIMAL text, perhaps just name of game and year released, focusing on a variety of different images to show off the variety of styles and examples for that genre. Think early versions and modern versions, changes through sequels etc.

Websistes that might be of use for this task are:
www.pintrest.com
http://slide.ly
http://www.cincopa.com/media-platform/services/create-slideshowhttp://visualslideshow.com/http://www.photosnack.com/http://www.photovisi.com/
http://notcouture.notcot.org/
https://svpply.com/
http://dwellinggawker.com/
http://designspiration.net/
http://www.siteinspire.com/
http://www.baubauhaus.com/
http://fontsinuse.com/
http://notventures.notcot.org/

http://dribbble.com/


 3. Finally, the main task for the Summer: a video presentation of LOTS of different things from different games that you like or appreciate in some way. This should be large collection of different elements from different games, gamplay, music, loading screens, character select screens, maps, control explanations, anything that invoves design ideas that you could use as an influence. It will need to be created as a video to allow you to add video and music, so you could incorporate gameplay videos from YouTuve for example. You will also need an explanation of each game element you’ve chosen and this can be done via a commentarry from you recorded or by words on screen. This is perhaps best done in PowerPoint; there’s plenty of example videos and tutorials on how to make a video using PowerPoint online. Any issues/problems/questions, leave a comment below. And have a lovely Summer!

Cover Art and Audience

In a blog post on your own blog:

For each of these below, identify the genre as much as possible, using just the information presented on the cover. Look at font, arrangement of images, colour palette, screenshots and information provided. Look carefully at the language and the information provided. 

Then, analyse audience. Who is the audience? What tells us this? How have the designers made the box art suited towards them? 

How you present this is up to you. I would expect as a minimum something like a Word or PowerPoint document with annotations, but would rather see something like a video podcast, Prezi, or some other format that's a bit more interesting/original. 

Key things here: AUDIENCE and HOW THEY ARE AIMED AT. Consider why these covers look different-they are essentially adverts used in the shops to get you to buy the game.