Unit 4: Critical and contextual awareness in creative media production
Intent: Improving our ability to analyse games and breaking them down.
Implementation: Covering the history and predicting the future of a game series
Impact: Improve your analysing making it easier to build on your own ideas
Soft skills: Game Design, analysing, idea generation
Industry: Game Designer, Games Journalist
English & Math's: Speaking + Listening, written work, analysing work
Discuss as groups: Come up with some genres! Write them down and name some games for them.
On your Google Sites:
What is a genre in games
Name 3 genres
Name a game for each and why it is that genre
Research: What are game genres and why do they matter
On your Google Sites:
Write what game genres are
Why do they matter
Research: Look at a controversy with a game in a chosen genre
On your Google Sites:
What was the controversy
What happened due to the controversy
What do I do?
Write about three genres and there defining traits
On your Google Sites:
Write about each genre
Identify traits in each
Talk about some game examples
Going further:
Go over the history of the genre
What do I do?
Add your own views on the genres you have covered
On your Google Sites:
Write down your views
Going Further:
What would you suggest to improve a genre
What do I do?
Create a 2 min pitch for a new game of that genre
On your Google Sites:
Written 2 min pitch (paragraph)