First questionnaire results

After doing my first questionnaire i have managed to find out a few things about the target market and also about my own questionnaire skills and what i need to improve on. I will be uploading the results in a table via googledocs

Pitch

Pitch Presentation on Prezi

Just a quick video about eSports

So the team called Fnatic made a video about eSports. Its a quick introduction but it has a little it of self pumping of the orginastion but its a nice intro to eSports either way

Game genres

As with every form of media there are genres, categories and sub categories which each specific product can be placed in. Each of these genres and sub genres have conventions which allows the classifications of the products. In the game industry there are several major categories of games. Most of the major categories are the genre of the game, for example; casual, action, adventure, horror and so on. The list is pretty much as endless as the imagination of the game developers. Sub genres usually define the style and type of game so for instance, a action game could be defined as a action horror, action shooter, action adventure and so on. A lot of the Sub genres can be mixtures of the major genres. Types of games such as FPS, RTS, MMORPG and others can also be mixed together to create hybrid types, but more about that later. Game types such as FPS (first person shooter) aren't always related to games involving war, for instance the game series such as Portal (which includes portal 1, portal 2 and a Xbox version of portal 1 which includes a few extra levels and a bit more to the plot line) . Portal isn't a shooter in the violent sense of the word. Its a puzzle platform shooter which is based in a FPS style. It involves solving puzzles in test chambers with a weapon known as the 'portal gun' it creates doorways from point A to point B within the same room (i'll do a little video about portal in the future, its really quite a fun game). To talk about all of the categories of games is practically impossible as they are new genres, cross genres and such being created all the time from game devs (developers). It would be easier to explain the main types such as FPS, MMO, MMORPG, RTS , Puzzle, Horror and maybe a few variants of those main ones. So a MMO is known as a Massively Multiplayer Online game, the most common MMO variant is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) but there are other MMO varients that involve RTS or FPS elements or even TPS (third person shooter). These MMO games usually have character progression systems that add a element to the game that makes users want to play and return to playing so they can watch their character progress through levels, ranks or whatever milestones the game has within its coding to gauge profession by.