Digital Games

Purpose

There are many different purposes for digital games, such as Entertainment, Education and Training, which supplies immersive and an entertaining experience, along with developing new skills and simulating real-life scenarios through interactive gameplay.

Legal Requirements

There are three main points when it comes to legal requirements, such as having the correct permissions and licensing for images, music, and other assets to ensuring no copyrighted or trademarked content is used in the game. Complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for data protection laws, especially if you are in the EU. Finally end user license agreement (EULA) which you are buying the license to play the game but not buying the game itself.

Technical Characteristics

The typical frame rate is 30 or 60 frames per second (FPS) with the main intent to supply low latency and smooth gameplay by containing a consistent frame rate. The main software/ game engine is Unity, and unreal engine which will determine the performance and development of the game, along with physics engines will also create an interactive, modern game. Compression methods are used on assets like textures and audio to improve loading times and storage used.

Photorealistic modelling has been used in games such as the last of us and death stranding, creating scenes and 3D models to impersonate reality. This can be used to make objects and environments with a massive level of detail, texture, lighting making them look like the real world. Which will immerse players into a lifelike experience.

Overall, game engines help with the performance and physics engines help realistic interactivity, which photorealistic modelling is the visual realism to keep players engaged and immersed, to shape the experience in the final product.

Impact Analysis

We want to deliver a positive influence on the final product which the performance, interactivity, loading times and the quality of graphics are a huge role to immersing players and delivering a positive player experience. Furthermore, character animations will help bring the game character to life, enhancing the story, and gameplay by immersing the user into the game, along with in-game cinematics, helping deliver the games story, to help deepen the players emotion.

Contextual Understanding

The effectiveness and legal compliance all come down to whether the audience is engaged and continue to keep the users, by making sure preferences are aimed at the target audience. Which the audience will need clear objectives, natural controls, and a user-friendly interface to make the game usable and not frustrating. This will enhance gameplay, with the story delivery and player engagement, including the emotional involvement and overall immersion created by the animation, along with adhering to privacy laws, and age restrictions. Finally, the production will involve pre-production, production, testing and launch, which has a high price and difficulty, causing it to take months to years to construct.