DME - Dyari Media Exams

Audience Read this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience. A brief synopsis of the game and its features. Synopsis, gameplay features, and a call to action. 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? The game heavily reinforces choice and customizability. 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  The reviews enjoy the game for being a portable Sims game, however many complain about how frustrating or unfair it is. Audience pleasures would probably include escapism. Participatory culture Read this academic journal article - The Sims: A Participatory Culture 14 Years On. Answer the following questions: 1) What did The Sims designer Will W...

Audience Look at this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles? PS5 - 71% male to 29% female Xbox Series X/S - 68% male to 32% female Nintendo Switch - 54% male to 46% female PC - 61% male to 39% female 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? The difference between "hardcore" and "casual" is how seriously the gamer in question is taking the game. A casual gamer, as the name implies, is a person who plays games casually, while a hardcore gamer takes games more seriously and plays more intensively. 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? To relax and wind down To pass the time To escape from reality for a while To challenge myself To complete cha...

Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on. Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or here using your Greenford Google login. Find Media Factsheet #169 Further Feminist Theory, read the whole of the Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What definitions are offered by the factsheet for ‘feminism ‘and ‘patriarchy’? 2) Why did bell hooks publish her 1984 book ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’? 3) What aspects of feminism and oppression are the focus for a lot of bell hooks’s work? 4) What is intersectionality and what does hooks argue regarding this? 5) What did Liesbet van Zoonen conclude regard...