The Computer Games

Industry

Exam date
Friday 5th June (roughly 9 weeks)
2.5 hours
Will need to come in for a FULL day
during Easter holidays.

Genre, narrative and representation in

video games Key website for our texts

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The Texts
The last of us
Tomb Raider (2013)
Grand Theft Auto 5

Industry
The video game industry (sometimes
referred to as the interactive
entertainment industry) is the economic
sector involved with the development,
marketing and sales of video games. It
encompasses dozens of job disciplines and
employs thousands of people worldwide.
HW reading
What can you say about the industry?

Use Statistics book

Grand Theft Auto Vpulled in

$800 million in sales in its first 24 h
ours
The Avengers was the fastest film in history
to hit $1 billion19 days into its run.
In fact, both Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 2 and Avatar hit $1 billion in
the same amount of time, but each film had
a wider release than The Avengers.
In other words, Grand Theft Auto Vnot only
hit $1 billion in sales faster than the fastestgrossing video game, it beat the three
biggest film launches of all time by 16 days.

UK
The UK industry is the third largest in the
World in terms of developer success and sales of
hardware and software by country alone but fourth
behind Canada in terms of people employed.
The UK is home to some of the world's most
successful video game franchises, such as
Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Fable,
Colin McRae Dirt and Total War.
Before the tax relief was introduced (2012) there
was a fear that the UK games industry could fall
behind other leading game industries around the
world such as France and Canada

The last of Us

Industry
Developers Avideo game developeris a
software developerthat specializes in
video game development the process and
related disciplines of creatingvideo games.
[1][2]
A game developer can range from one
person who undertakes all tasks[3]to a large
business with employee responsibilities split
between individual disciplines, such as
programming,design,art,testing, etc.
Publishers Avideo game publisheris a
company thatpublishesvideo gamesthat
they have either developed internally or have
had developed by avideo game developer. As
withbook publishersor publishers ofDVD
movies, video game publishers are
responsible for their product'smanufacturing
andmarketing, includingmarket research
and all aspects ofadvertising.

Distributors
Retail/ online

Developer(s)
Publisher(s)

Naughty Dog
Sony Computer En
tertainment
Director(s)
Bruce Straley
Neil Druckmann
Designer(s)
Jacob Minkof
Programmer(s) Travis McIntosh
Jason Gregory
Artist(s)
Erick Pangilinan
Nate Wells
Writer(s)
Neil Druckmann
Composer(s)
Platform(s)

Gustavo Santaolal
la
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
Releasedate(s) PlayStation 3
June 14, 2013
PlayStation 4
NA
July 29, 2014
AUSJuly 30, 2014
EUJuly 30, 2014
UKAugust 1, 2014
Genre(s)

Action-adventure
,survival horror

Mode(s)

Single-player,
multiplayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7YR0qnwn0

Grand Theft Auto 5

Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Distributor(s)
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Writer(s)
Composer(s)

Series
Engine
Platform(s)

Releasedate(s)

Genre(s)
Mode(s)
Distribution

Rockstar North[a]
Rockstar Games
Take-Two Interactive
Leslie Benzies[2]
Imran Sarwar[3]
Leslie Benzies
Imran Sarwar
Adam Fowler[4]
Aaron Garbut[5]
Dan Houser
Rupert Humphries
Michael Unsworth[6]
Tangerine Dream
Woody Jackson
The Alchemist
Oh No[7]
Grand Theft Auto
RAGE, withEuphoriaand
Bullet
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
Xbox 360
Xbox One
PlayStation 3,Xbox 360
17 September 2013[b]
PlayStation 4,Xbox One
18 November 2014
Microsoft Windows
14 April 2015
Action-adventure
Single-player,multiplayer
Optical disc,download

Genre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnGc3mPkZ38

Overview published by Rockstar Games and developed by subsidiary

companies. The first games were developed by Rockstar North
(formerly DMA Design) and BMG Interactive (a subsidiary of BMG
Records).
Action-adventure, open world, crime, role-playing
The games allow the player to take on the role of a criminal in a big city,
typically an individual who rises through the ranks of organised crime
through the course of the game. Various missions are set for completion by the
figureheads of the city underworld, generally criminal, which must be
completed to progress through the storyline. Assassinations, and other crimes
feature regularly, but occasionally taxi driving, firefighting, pimping, street
racing, or learning to fly fixed-wing aircraft are also involved as alternate
adventures, which can be done at any time during the game, with the
exception of the periods performing main missions.
The Grand Theft Auto series - free-roaming video games called "sandbox
games," grants a large amount of freedom to the player in deciding what to
do and how to do it through multiple methods of transport and weapons. Unlike
most traditional action games, which are structured as a single track series of
levels with linear gameplay, in GTA the player can determine the missions
they want to undertake, and their relationships with various
characters are changed based on these choices.

Tomb Raider (2013) *reboot

Tomb Raider:
Official Trailer (E3
2011)
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=nFBr
geSjj-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f067cmw7AfQ#t=72
GameTap Tomb Raider Retrospective 1: Introduction

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The series' current logo

Genres
Developers

Publishers

Creators
Platforms

Action-adventure
Core Design
(19962004)
Crystal Dynamics
(2006present)
Eidos Interactive
(19962009)
Square Enix
(2010present)
Core Designteam
Dreamcast,Game Boy Advance,iOS
,Macintosh,Mac OS X,MS-DOS,
Microsoft Windows,Mobile phone,
N-Gage 2.0,GameCube,Nintendo
DS,PlayStation,PlayStation 2,
PlayStation 3,PlayStation 4,
PlayStation Network,PlayStation
Portable,Sega Saturn,Wii,
Windows Mobile,Xbox,Xbox 360,
Xbox One

Genre
Action-adventure, platform
Tomb Raider is the 2013 reboot of the Tomb
Raider franchise from developer Crystal
Dynamics and publisher Square Enix. It is
the tenth Tomb Raider game, and the first in
a new take on the series. Tomb Raider
explores the intense and gritty origin story
of Lara Croft and her ascent from a
frightened young woman to a hardened
survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and
the ability to push beyond the limits of
human endurance, Lara must fight to

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