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Audience and Industry

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 12/02/24 Lots of gamers watch ‘walk-throughs’ or read official guides to complete video games and win all the trophies. Twitch – This is a website when games play against top gamers/can watch them speed through it  Only 2.4% of people who’ve played on the PlayStation have achieved all the trophies!  The trophies have no real gain to the game, it’s just for ‘bragging rights’. Once you achieve all the trophies, you unlock the platinum achieve trophy and “platinum a game” Successful it allows people who are creative and imaginative people to flow and enjoy  classic game play can entertain, surprise and is capable of many things  keeps the classic way of building and smashing bricks  matched visual aesthetic of the film as everything is made out of lego unique details Unsuccessful very repetitive  no reward for completing and boring after tasks have been done some of the tasks are too easy  lousy job of delivering a storyline  How can you apply the Uses & Gratifications Theory to the

Video Games

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 5 March 2024 Cross promotion, marketing is being used to appeal to young audiences an to increase exposer. E.g. sets from the lego movie as lego bricks , Lego as a video game -This will get warner bros more money. - synergy Why do people play video games based on movies? People play video games based on movies as they can take an active part in a film they enjoy and make their own version of the story.   To identity with characters to identify with values good versus evil diversion/ entertainment to enjoy suspense, action, action, excitement, humour Escapism Develop a sense of expertise in self enclosed fictional world social interaction/personal relationships (pies) Para-social interaction with establishes characters from the film to earn trophies and gain self-satisfaction where can you buy the lego movie game? toy stores (smiths) online websites (Argos, amazon) Xbox Game supermarkets (Tesco)   TT Games is a British video game developer.  In November 2007, Warner Bros. Interactive E