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- 1. Steam greenlight is an online game store where you can pay a one - time fee to submit your games to steam to try and get them to put it on their website for people to purchase it. Steam allows anyone who is on steam to purchase the games as long as you have an account you can play big and small games produced by a range of companies and small time developers. There is no time scale for the game because it is an open time scale and the product is aimed at anyone who plays games on steam so this can range from children to adults. In order to submit your game to steam you only need to pass the legal and ethical checklist the legal and ethical issues are resolved by not making anything offensive to any race and by ensure the game is suitable to play without any issues also the game will be reviewed by the legal and ethical team so they will check for anything and if they think your game is suitable they will allow you to put your game on steam.
- 2. Indie vs Pewdiepie is a website where the You-Tuber asked his fans to make some games for him and he will play them on his channel this is so that he can interact with his fans the client for this are Game jolt they are the main client for this because they set up the website. The client wants the media to produce games for the competition. There isn’t much constraint s because there isn’t much time and you must follow the guidelines to get your game judged. The time scale to deliver the product was 72 hours but he also left it open after for late entries this was so most of the people sending there game in to make the game manage to get them into the competition. The target audience for these games are pewdiepie and the other judge’s people are making the games for them so they can have a chance to win the competition. The legal an ethical issues were resolved by some rules such as no racism, no homophobic bullying, and last but not least nothing offensive this was to make the game suitable for everyone.
- 3. The client is the company Global game jam and every year host a competition brief for anyone who wants to, to come develop a video game in the space of a weekend. The time scale comes to around 48 hours and allows individuals or groups to work on their brief. There is no specific audience as the brief is a short period of time and is judged on the games quality rather then that it’s aimed at. The legal and ethical constraints are guideline within the brief presentation shows to all competitors at the start however there are the basic rules, of no hate speech or personal attacks. The only constraint that competitors receive is the time scale as this constrains the scale of the project.