unit 22 + 72 assignment

               unit 72 and 22                                                                                                  kurt bremner

Genre name	Genre description	Game example and description
survival	http://abcgameservers.com/dayz-standalone-server/ http://www.gameskinny.com/5bt52/rust-guide-how-to-find-food-and-cook-in-rust  as you can no doubt tell the aim of a survival game is to survive as long as possible and to accumulate the best items to dominate the server. the majority of these games have multiplayer options and some are only multiplayer games. games like Minecraft have a single player and multiplayer option. and a co-op 4 player.	The game Rust as a good example of a survival game. the aim is too build a base defend it and upgrade it along with your stuff. Not only do you have to defend your base from other players who would probably kill you for have one rock you have to hunt animals to replenish your food bar. which starts off about at 80 out of 1000 and you get water from collecting from canisters and eating food. along with this you also have to keep warm at night and where light clothes if you spawn in a desert.
MMO	http://2p.com/3335983_1/Featured-Gallery-Enjoy-World-of-Warcraft-Wallpapers-by-EdwardsLin.htm http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/12/12/the-elder-scrolls-online-pc-and-console-release-dates-announced/ The MMO genre are games like world of Warcraft and elder scrolls online. the aims change regularly but in each MMO game people try to get the best equipment as possible and beat the newer more difficult boss which gives you better things than what the previous one does. There are normally options of PVP (player vs player) where you compete against other players for victory, and in the best MMO games you have PVE(player vs everything) this ranges from fighting bosses to doing quests.	The game world of warcraft is the largest MMO in the world right now and over 100 million different accounts have been created during the games "lifetime". It was made in November 23 2004-US and February 11th EU . The game had 6 expansions and the upcoming legion expansions means that there will be 7. You will fight numerous bosses like gigantic demons the undead and dragons.
fighting	http://games.torrentsnack.com/tekken-dark-resurrection-psp/  Fighting games such as Mortal Kombat and Tekkan have around for over a decade and have always been successful in the market. the games usually consist of beating up the other opponent by knocking the health bar to zero. there are normally a large amount of characters to chose each with there own set of abilities and moves sets. http://in.ign.com/mortal-kombat-x/74895/feature/mortal-kombat-x-fatalities-brutalities-character-s	In fighting games like these there is usually campaign where you have to fight against other characters which will lead to a boss fight at the end. The characters may gradually get harder the further you progress in a game. t=There are normally 2player vs mode and a a multiplayer online mode where you face off against a player across the world.
hack and slash	http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/14629/article/diablo-3-gold-hack-funds-going-to-charity/ http://www.gameskinny.com/msxy7/what-we-want-to-see-in-darksiders-3 The diablo series and titan quest are hack and slash games. you play as a powerful character which a face off against hordes of foes. The main plots of these games are normally the whole world is in danger because monstrously powerful demon is trying to destroy it and you're the only one who can stop him because you're immensely powerful. titan quest dark souls darksiders and diablo also all have RPG elements because of the quests you can complete.	A angel fallen from heaven has crashed into a old cathedral. his sword has been shattered and later on you have recover the pieces to restore his memory. Once his memory has been recovered he warns that the end times is coming and that the lord of terror diablo is plotting his return with the help of 2 other lords of hell which are belial the lord of lies and azmodan the lord of sin. once you defeat both of them begins to siege heaven and almost completely destroy it but it's up to you to stop him...
sandbox	http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/08/20/minecrafts-combat-system-is-being-changed-charged-attacks-incoming/ minecraft and grand theft auto are good sandbox/open world games. sandbox games. The concept of a sandbox game is that it's entirely up to you what you do. There are usually a story mode or certain objective to complete in these games but you can decide how you get to it. For example minecraft your aim is to defeat the ender dragon ans survive for as long as possible as you upgrade your items and base. http://in2gpu.com/2015/04/14/grand-theft-auto-v-performance-guide/	in sandbox games you have a fast open world to explore and find secrets in the game. Minecraft is no stranger to this this game has a vast open world where you can explore a world randomly generated each time you create a new game. Your aim is to defeat the bosses, create a strong base and upgrade your equipment. You can play split screen on Xbox with up to 4 players or you can go on online servers.
RPG (not a rocket propelled grenade)	http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-system-requirements-revealed/ Dragon age and the elder scrolls games are among the most well known games in the industry. This may be because of the multiple different play through opportunities. Such as choosing different races, factions and choices you made in game. Often in these games you have multiple bosses to beat and multiple pieces of upgradeable armor and weapons http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/	The majority of the RPG games are set in a fantasy worlds with multiple races fighting with bows swords and full plated armor. With the exceptions a few like GTA and fallout Elder scrolls 5 skyrim is set in fantasy world called tamriel and you play as the "dragonborn" . your aim in this game is the stop alduin the world eater from destroying the world or eating it... You will fight against a large array of enemies including dragons. You can be a evil thief or assassin. You can start a war and choose what side to be on. and you can take an arrow to the knee.(get married) or you can got shot in the knee by an arrow depending on how you look at it.
FPS (first person shooter	http://theshortgamer.com/tag/call-of-duty-black-ops/ FPS are among the most popular game genre's. With games like call of duty being among the most successful game franchises of all time. The games usually consist of a hugely populated multiplayer modes like domination or team death match. The multiplayer mode usually over shadows the campaign but it doesn't necessarily mean they are rubbish. to list a few FPS games i'd recommend are Battlefield 4 unreal tournament half life 1/2 and team fortress 2 http://www.twinfinite.net/2015/08/18/jj-abrams-and-valves-team-fortress-2-game-mode-goes-into-beta/ team fortress 2	Battlefield 4 has a huge 32 vs 32 multiplayer servers on xbox one,PS4 and PC. There are multiple game mode options . My favorite is conquest which is similar the call of duty's domination but on a far larger scale. In the campaign you play as sergeant recker and he needs to make his way back to the warship

Genre: horror

http://www.tacticalgaming.net/hq/news/tag/the-evil-within

description: Games like outlast are designed to be a dark and scary environment and i'd expect numerous scares from this style of game. Like avoiding monsters and traps. However you also your horror/hack slash games like dead island/dead rising. They're Gory and quite creative in how you kill them. The favorite villains in those type of games are zombies and madmen. You also get the games which are in middle of these sub genre's like dead space and the evil within

http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/06/19/legendary-developing-full-length-dead-rising-feature/

Genre: strategy
Description: In these games you control multiple units to take out the enemy units or capture their base. This can be from entire armies to a few select units.
The total war franchise specializes in using huge armies. These range from Mongolians to the Romans. Or a game like Warcraft 3 where you send multiple units to complete set objectives but you get heroes where you can use abilities to heal or damage allies and foes.   

http://www.twinfinite.net/2015/08/12/blizzard-considering-new-warcraft-rts-following-starcraft-2-conclusion/

Genre: stealth 

description:  a large percentage of games has stealth mechanics. I have already listed some games which may give you the option of being a stealthy player such as evil within, rust, world of Warcraft GTA, day z and many more. However there are some games which were meant to be almost entirely stealth based. I few of these are Thief, dishonored and tom Clancy's splinter cell.

                                                                                   

Concerns of excess playing time

Concerns of excess playing are increasing throughout the media. Countries like South Korea host tournaments where the players can play for over 50 hours and people have been known to of died of heart attack in these. There have also been many articles which suggests that it impacts on learning and social capabilities. There are roughly 1.2 billion people playing games world wide and 700 million of those games played are on online. 

Social isolation

With the ever increasing popularity of games being played there are fears that the younger population will lack basic social skills in the future which could impact on getting a job or having a negative impact on their social welfare. The link below directs you to a social experiment which took place and it found that the people who are addicted to gaming have less social skills than those who do.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905509/

Cost

Money is not the only thing gaming costs, time is also at stake. In the link to the article above they found that 93 out of the 564 people were addicted to games. This is a concern to students and adults alike because if they spend a large amount of time on games instead of doing homework or studying it will have a negative impact on there learning which will result in lower paid job or perhaps not a job at all depending on how addicted to gaming they are.

http://gametheoryonline.com/2010/07/28/video-game-prices-high-low-gamestop-retail/

Separation from reality

This goes together with social isolation. There have been many cases where people have been trying to carryout scenes in a game this includes murder have theft. The infamous Manhunt game which is banned in countries across the world. A 17 year old way convicted for murder and was thought to of been inspired by the violent stealth based game in 2004.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-316491/Teenager-gets-life-Manhunt-murder.html

Benefits of gaming

There are surprisingly a huge amount of benefits and you may not expect these, for example did you know that it’s helping to improve surgeons in particularly the ones specialising in small incisions.

“ a study of laparoscopic (small incision) specialists found that those who played for more than three hours per week made 32 percent fewer errors”

in addition to this it also helps people who are suffering from autism and dyslexia “One study has shown dyslexics improved their reading comprehension following sessions of games heavy on action”

 “Gamers using systems that incorporate the entire body to control onscreen movement have been shown to be more engaged in celebrating victories with their peers, which runs counter to the lack of communication people with autism”

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65008/15-surprising-benefits-playing-video-games

Thinking and strategy skills

The army has been known to use very realistic combat simulation games to train future officers. Also a certain amount of expertise may be needed in an Xbox 360 controller because the army also uses these to control there UAV’s and to defuse bombs and probably a lot more things as well.

Aside from the army there are many more skills you can get for example you earn the skills to make faster decisions

“In one study, players who were immersed in fast-paced games were 25 percent faster in reacting to questions about an image they had just seen compared to non-players.”

Future impact

As the gaming industry develops games will start to become more popular in countries which are developing at a fast rate such as china and India. Where roughly 2.5 billion people live in both of them combined. If the gaming industry became as big in China and India as it is in the South Korea or even in the USA the game developers would be able to get a huge amount of popularity and money.

Impact on “mainstream “application development

When there are a new generation of games being produced the hardware also create something new and more advanced. Particularly on the PC. However on the PlayStation and the Xbox there is not as much a player can upgrade or change so instead they release the next generation of consoles.

 

since you cannot see this properly i will explain what it is showing.









I created this sketch on paint and it supposed to look rubbish because i don't have the experience to create a better version with drawing or any other art package.

what is going on in that image is that the main character (natsu dragneel) is fighting jellal (villain) and zeref.
making models on Photoshop is expensive because for the full retail version it is 1000 pounds from kingofsoftware.com  whereas paint is free. The disadvantages of using software like paint you are limited to what you can achieve with your models. If you seen what the models i made they look terrible but i can tell what they are.
I was aiming for a pixelated game so it was in a way a success.
The genre of this game is fighter. I plan to have over 50 characters. I have taken inspiration from the anime fairy tail and make it a similar game to Naruto ninja storm and mortal combat The background is going to be set in areas important to the anime such as their guild hall and other places relevant to the story.
The character do not progress in campaign mode i want it to be like a mortal combat style game where you fight against foes with increasing difficulty until you face the bosses.












The main character is called Natsu Dragneel. He is in a mystical world wherein there are magical guilds. Fairy tail is among the strongest. The leader is Makarov..
In this game the character do not progress as you fight against foes with increasing difficulty like mortal combat as mentioned above.  There are arguably 5 other major characters in game (i could possibly make a mini campaign for each.) Natsu was raised by a dragon but at 7 years old the dragons all disappeared and he is on a quest of his own to find them. He uses fire dragon slayer magic (dragon slayer magic is a forbidden magic) and as a result he gets all kinds of trouble thrown at him from people who wants to use his power for evil.