LO2 Comparison report

    Lego Hobbit
This report is a comparison between the written review in the Xbox Magazine and the video review IGN.
    In the Xbox Official Magazine there is no mention of the genre for Lego Hobbit however in the IGN video review they say that the genre is standard combat and exploration.
    In the Xbox Official Magazine they tell us that the target audience is kids with low puzzle solving skills and fans of middle earth. The IGN review were much less specific in the target audience, they said that they are fans of the lego series.
    The Xbox magazine says that the narrative for the story is very similar to the Hobbit book by J.R.Tolkien. Whereas the IGN review goes into more depth about the narrative saying it follows the story of two out of the three Hobbit films and leads bilbo and company from bagged to the lonely mountain.
    The Xbox Official magazine review tells us that the character in the Lego Hobbit game have had only minor changes making them much the same character. Similarly the IGN review just tells us minimum amounts about the character and so they talk about the different playable characters Dwailen, Thorin, Bilbo, Gandalf.
    The gameplay is reviewed within the IGN video review to being a fun journey but not entirely satisfying, fun resource collection, very engaging visuals, charming slapstick humour and in the end its still just a button masher. Similarly the the xbox magazine says that the games main feature is the adorableness and comedy. They also say that the game looks the part and there is plenty of resources to collect, but the characters aren't unique, puzzles are over signposted and that the combat ponderous.
    The platforms aren't mentioned within the video review however the Xbox magazine review says its available on Xbox 360 and Xbox one.
    The IGN video review gave the personal recommendation that the game is an overall 7.4. The pros are that it has great visuals and it is fun to play. The cons are that it has a disjointed story and that the characters are to similar. All that aside IGN say it is a journey worth taking. The Xbox Official magazine’s personal verdict is that the game is for children and it seem to make the mistake of misunderstanding them, but that if you're in love with middle earth then its worth playing.

Game Concept idea sheriff stars

Hardware
The best possible hardware for this idea is PC and Mac.

Target Audience
The target audience is 14-19 males of demographic A,B,C1

Genre
Rouge-like platformer

3 competiters
Rouge legacy, Risk of Rain and Catacomb kids

Game Concept idea

Draft 1: The game will be Rogue-lite 2D platform with a space western theme and randomly generated world.

Draft 2: 2D space western platformer, with rogue-like elements where you play as a randomised character who explores a vast abandoned ancient space base on the moon to find out the mysteries within.

Draft 3: 2D space western platformer, with rogue-like elements where you play in a randomised world with different rooms contains randomly generated monsters and items. The world will be a ancient space base that has been abandoned. Every time you enter the space base it will have a different theme regarding why it was abandoned. The character you play as will be randomly generated at the beginning of each run causing them to have different abilities.

Draft 4: In ‘The Sheriff’s Stars’ the player plays as a randomly generated sheriff

Brainstorm of 5 games

GTA V
Halo 4
Hotline Miami
Dead Island
Forza 4

Dead Island
Dead Island is of the survival and horror genres.
The target audience for this game is people aged 17-25, male by gender and of any ethnicity. It is available on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Linux and mac OSX. The release date was 9th of september, 2011. Dead Island reveived mostly possitive reviews from critics. Aggregating review websites Game Rankings and Metacritic gave the PC version of the game it 77.80%, Xbox 360 version 72.80% and and Playstation 3 version 71.88%. Earnings of Dead Island has been kept secret but they sold 2.17 million copies of the game.

Halo 4
Halo 4 is a fps sci-fi game.
The target audience for this game is people aged 15-25, male by gender and of any ethnicity. It is available on Xbox 360. The release date for this was November the 6th 2012. Halo 4 received mostly possitive review from critics. The aggregate review websites Gamerankings and Metacritic gave the game a 87.61%. The earnings for Halo 4 on the release day was $220 million and grossed $300 million in the first week.

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The advantage of developing a game for a console rather than the wider market.
-You can charge more for the game
- Heavily promoted
-Don't have to mess with different types of coding

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Target audience For 4 games

Super Mario Bros U
The target audience for this game would be children ages 7-17, all ethnicitys, both genders,  ABC1

Half Life 2
people aged 16-20, all ethnicitys, male gender,

Candy Crush Saga
children and adult aged 12-25, all ethnicitys, female gender

Minecraft
People aged 5-40,