unit 70 computer game story development

Without a character there is no narrative. Well that's how i see it. While the narrative is going on you will want to know more about the characters and what they have in connection with the narrative. Characters are created to promote a certain game.. to catch a certain gamers eye. This all comes down to target audience. Gamers are all about their characters, their characters features and any sort of skills. So all in all it depends on who the person is to match what kind of character and also what kind of game.

The game in which i am choosing with a strong protagonist is Tomb raider. Let us start off with who the protagonist of this game actually is. The protagonist is Lara Croft who plays as third person perspective.  Her role in the game is to battle through her way in this deserted island full of uneasy creatures and dead people as her ship has been wrecked and she has been left on her own. The main task is for her to survive through all the obstacle that may get in her way through the exploration. Now going onto the characterisation. In this game i believe that using a woman was a strong point, many people may have thought a woman? for a survival game? Believe it or not, by using a woman to play as the protagonist it has increased the sales of the game overall. Besides the business side of all things the game has attracted more woman to play the game too as nowadays all we see in games is men having to go through all the battles, it was nice to have a change for once. Lara is also this strong, brave woman who is intelligent enough to fight her way through. This also shows people that it is not always men who have the power, woman have also got the mind and body strength to battle their way through.


 One of the antagonists i have chosen to talk about is featured in the game Metal gear solid 3 and is known by the name of 'The Boss'. I know not the most creative of names but trust me, once you play it you will realise as to why he is called that. The boss will take it easy on u at first but then she stops playing nice with naked snake even though that is her former lover. As you continue on in the game you will realise that the boss is one of the best soldiers who has ever lived, she is one that even her enemies respected. Once you come closer to the end of the game, you will realise that she is probably one of the most honourable opponents you will ever face.

What is backstory? Well it is pretty simple to figure out, it is the story before the actual game starts. It gives you a slight overview of what the game is about and what your main objective is throughout and answers your questions as to what is going on. One of the games that i have played with a backstory is very recent and is GTA5. In the beginning of the film you are introduced to 3 characters who are robbing a bank. After accomplishing this, they then go onto making a runner. As they are doing this the police have surrounded them off and they are trapped, with everything at a blur one of the characters gets shot, but who? Character trevor believes that it is good friend Michael who gets shot and dies when really it is not, leaving you to unveil the truth yourself. When i first played this it had bought masses of excitement into me that i just wanted to play and find out more, the way they have explained and portrayed everything to the gamer is as if it as a movie or even real life based. Moving onto the next game that i will be talking about is double dragon which is a fairly old game. As kids we probably thought they were just two brothers who wander the streets of new york looking for people to beat up, but what we did not know was that the game was actually meant to be taking place in the post apocalypse, and Billy and Jimmy are not just two brothers, they are supposed to be two martial arts masters! who are protecting a sacred and secret style. Finding out the backstory for this game bought a whole load of thinking to my head but gave the game a slight more interest.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

magazine layout (miss paradise)

Daily mail and vogue magazine layout contrasts

In todays lesson we looked at layouts of e-magazines. The two sites in which i looked at were 'Daily mail' and 'Vogue fashion magazine'. The two contrasted in various ways. First i analysed 'Daily mail' as soon as you enter the site we could see that there were big headings to grab the readers attention. The page was laid out with 3 columns. The first column was about a news heading about a motorist getting a fine, the text was written in big and they decided to show the distraught  pictures at first. The pictures used were to show the readers the emotions of the people involved in the story, they showed a picture of the motorist who received the fine looking very unpleased and made the man look like the bad guy in the situation, right below we see the picture of the family (victims) looking very upset, this is to get the readers to feel some sympathy towards the family. In the middle column it had a miniture gallery which navigated you to stories about celebrities and their recent updates. This was very easy to navigate and is full of pictures! Below it had miniture subheadings about the recent politics happening worldwide and the third column was also stories laid out with pictures and little summaries of what the story is about so it gets the reader going. Also on top of these headlines it says 'don't miss'. This a way of reaching the readers attention. Another thing i have also realised from this page is that they had a search engine so you can look up previous stories online and also a little ad telling us to follow them on social networking sites twitter and facebook.

I then went onto the vogue website this website was more organised and less packed with info. On the top left of the site it had the company name and underneath there were headings which navigate you to different departments of the site to show what is happening in and around the company. In big lettering the word 'Magazine' is shown to us which tells us straight we are looking at their e-magazine. Underneath that they have easy to navigate pages to look through. It has 2 columns where there is one main column talking about the main stories and the second column which is links to separate pages and adverts. In the main column it talks about the recent fashion updates and what is happening in the fashion/modelling world. On the first story they used a rhetorical question which is really effective. On the right hand side of the page there is only two adds about other magazine updates where people get the opportunity to subscribe. Unlike daily mail, vogues subheadings have minor text underneath them whereas daily mail has a long summary about the story. On the top right hand of the site there is miniture search engine symbol and an option to register or login to get more updates of what is going on.

We can see that daily mail is trying to have more of a diverse audience and trying to grab as many peoples attention whereas vogue knows who their target audience is and are more about the layout of their page to represent the company. The vogue magazine has also  got less information rather than daily mail and also vogue is only talking about one particular subject for it's company and daily mail is talking about many as it is more of a newspaper company for the world to read whoever you are.