Introduction

Hello my name is Rafiq

What am I presenting?

I will be presenting my knowledge of research the knowledge I applied to the games I researched and the different types of research available (Primary/Secondary).

What is the point?

It’s important to research if you’re going to do anything from getting a game review for the game you have just created to writing a news report. If you’ve just created a game without researching that game most likely won’t be any good; the reason being you haven’t gone and researched what people’s likes and dislikes are and also where you got you’re inspiration from.

Research in general

What is research?

Research is simply getting background information on whatever you’re creating. Looking at key facts, opinions, where people got their inspiration from and looking at videos, blogs and reviews on someone else researching.

It’s ok to reference quotes but you can only do that to a minimum because research has to be everything that you found and taking information from someone else is unoriginal because it’s meant to be your research findings it’s illegal in universities and colleges and could get you blacklisted from education in the country.

Why is it key in the industry?

Research is key in the industry because it shows where you got your inspiration from and also the feedback you got. This is all to improve games and find out what people want in games.

What general research can I use?

Anytime I do any research I will turn to the internet first where i can look at blogs

I can look at YouTube videos

I can do surveys and look at other survey reviews

And I can ask a family member or a close friend or someone with a mutual interest.

Research can differ based on time, if I created a modern game but got my inspiration from an old game that came out years ago then I would have to look at the available resources and research techniques that artists and game makers used at that time. The way the game was advertised for example posters, TV. Ads, magazines, books and how popular the game was and the sales it made.

Classic Game Research overview

What did I research?

I researched Super Mario World (released in 1990 by Nintendo)

What special research techniques did I use?

For this task I had to do primary research on a classical game. Primary research involves getting all the information on my own without looking at research that’s already out there. I did create a survey and distributed it online and to the public. The first and most important thing I did was play the game. I also got a picture of me playing the game to prove that its primary research and original.

Classic game research in depth

Primary research?

Doing primary research on a classical game involves looking at what media was available at that time. In this case I looked at what media and technology was available in 1990. Compared to today technology wasn’t very advanced pixel art was main stream and the graphics at that time wasn’t arguable. For artists and game makers to do primary research they would look at books, magazines, do photo-shoots and also play games. I looked at how this game was advertised, they used posters, and TV ads, also put it on their website.

What did I learn?

The obvious thing I learned was how to apply primary research to an old generation game; this also expanded my own knowledge of research because when I was younger, I used to just use the internet all the time. I also learned that primary research is strict like everything has done by yourself and you have to have proof that it was done by you.

How can I apply this knowledge to my game?

I think id add a controller to my game because I liked how the super Nintendo controller provides stability it was so easy to control the character, I could easily navigate the player 1 around objects.

Modern day research overview

What did I research?

I researched Call of Duty Ghosts

What special research techniques did I use?

The research I did for Call of Duty Ghosts was secondary. Secondary research involves getting background information from sources that are already out there and also from blogs and sites like Reddit.

Modern day research in depth

What did I learn?

Today doing research is a lot easier because of the internet being so accessible.

Whilst doing my research I learned what reliable sources are out there and where to look it’s mainly opinions and reviews. What I did was look online at reviews of what people liked and disliked and just taking quotes and I wrote why people disliked certain aspects and features of Call of Duty Ghosts.

How can I apply this knowledge to my game?

By taking peoples dislikes if I was to make multiplayer maps for my game I would make them medium sized and also make the spawning fair so no one’s getting killed a few seconds after they’ve just spawned and also make the players movement speed equal.

Research Evaluation

I found that doing primary research was easier than doing secondary because the first-hand experience. Like When I played Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo I got to experience the controls and it also helped me think of questions that I could ask on my survey.

Another thing I liked about doing primary research was I didn’t have to look at research that someone else created. Everything that I did was original. I liked how I could create a survey and ask questions that I wanted to know.

During my research for both primary and secondary I think that I struggled with writing what I think about something and what the public think about the same point. So it ended up taking me a long time to write a paragraph on let’s say for my secondary research I wrote about a few multiplayer maps and why people disliked it. I took to the internet to look at what people thought and then took notes from them all and put what people generally thought.

Research was never really my strong point but when I started doing this it has helped me learn where I can look for quality information and also how I would get my questions and point out to the public.