Monday, 19 November 2012

The Sims Online

The sims online takes the gameplay from the sims and brings it into a consistenct online universe, where all the sims are controlled by real people.
The Genre of The sims online is Simulation, Simulation games are created with the goal of putting the player in control of a certain activity while attempting to make it as realistic as possible, basicially all electronic games are simulations. Most simulation games are not story- driven, since they concentrate on describing general activities, not concrete situations.
A free trial of The Sims, allows you to play the games for free as a trial for 14 days. After the 14 days if the player wants to continue playing, the user will need to purchase a subscription for £6.30 a month. The Sims Online (also known as EA-Land) was a massively multiplayer online variation on Maxis's highly popular computer game The Sims. It was published by Electronic Arts and released on December 17, 2002 for Microsoft Windows.
Four cities had special rules: Dragon's Cove was known as the "hardcore city", as there were a number of harder game objectives to consider when playing here. For example, a Sim would lose energy when traveling long distances, and the virtual costs for items were doubled. Betaville was a city created for the purpose of testing new features. A few examples of these features were the ability to create a family of up to four adult Sims, with adjustable free will levels; bills and fires and firemen. Another was Test Center, where the player could never move out of the city. Test Center Sims also started with three times the start-up money
Obtaining skill points was an important aspect of gameplay. They were necessary for receiving more money from paying objects and earning promotions in the offered career tracks. They were occasionally needed for special interactions with other players, such as serenading. A skill could be increased at a faster rate when multiple Sims in the lot worked on the same skill simultaneously.
The game had six core skills: Mechanical, Cooking, Charisma, Body, Creativity, and Logic. Skill level ranged in number from 0 to 20.99.

Monday, 12 November 2012

Example of symbiosis - Mountain Dew - Halo 4


This is an example of symbiosis, Symbiosis means where two companies come together to make a profit, This picture shows halo 4 and mountain dew coming together and making profit.

Top 20 Games

At the top of the chart is Assassins Creed III, Which just recently hit the stores on the 31st of October. it is published by ubisoft, and as you can see through the chart there has been 3 games that are published by ubisoft and are also on the top 20 video game chart.
Fifa 13 was released in september and still is at the top of the chart. it is published by Ea which has also got 3 games which is on the top 20 games, as you can see, you can play fifa 13 on the ps2, that is because brazil and india mostly play on the ps2.
Looking through all the games, they have different target audiences, they have a few of kids games, for example, lego batman 2 : Dc Super Heroes, Moshi Monsters :Moshlings Theme Park, and proffessor Layton and the miracle Mask.
There are overall, 19 Franchise games, and just One new ip game which is dishonored, it shows that franchised games sell more than new ip games however Dishonored has beat 10 franchised games in the top 20 chart.
As you can see there are alot of publishers that dominates each other, and its is interesting to see that there are three EA games and Three Ubisoft Games, there are also 2 activison games which audience is aimed as Children.
Looking through the top 20 games chart, you can see that there are only two first party games, forza horizon and pokemon black and white 2. You can see the third party games sell more than first party games, the reason why is because you can play third party games on different platform holders. and on first party games you can only play it one platformer.