This website is mainly a videogame online blog. It will publish video game news, culture, entertainment, reviews and videos. The goal is to set the content of this website apart from other game journalism outlets by focusing people making and playing the games rather than the game alone. There are two main purpose for this website. First, it is a great platform and community for gamers to share their game play records online, exchange experience and give out a more professional reviews to each games. Second, it will provide us with the latest video game news like “The top 10 best action games of 2017” or “The most recent changes to The Call of Duty”, which are long-form magazine-style feature articles.
Audience:
The target audience for this website will be the teenagers and adult, between 14-35 years old, who are very serious towards gaming. These people share love of every different kinds of games and most of them are students. Usually, they have been play games for more than several years. And they love to share their gaming videos to other players and they love to read and learn every little changes to the game they play in order to improve their gaming performance.
Needs Assessment:
For myself, I have been playing video games for more than ten years and I am still an active game player. Therefore, I have a lot of gaming friends. They provide me with some good information about what should be on the website. Articles about the most recent game update and changes are the must. It is much better to have video to explain everything in details. Second, a video showcase of those pro gamers game play will be the most attractive content on this website.
Questions asked to the group:
What type of information would attract our target audience to visit our web site often?
An online blog that contains articles about game update and changes including pictures and video.
An online review section where gamers share their experiences and comments is built to grow a family community of video game.
A pro guide or tutorial about how to doing better in certain games.
Links to other game official site and more professional video game website.
What type of information should not be on the website?
All agree that anything that has nothing to do with gaming should not be on the website.
What are the most important section should I focus the most on?
Pro gamers game play record should be the most essential part of this website.
Five Reference Website
For the content part, it is very similar to the Polygon, but not that advertisement.
For the layout part, the goal is to keep it as simple and clear as possible. Aligned banner, navigation and content. A good example is Gamespot
For the color scheme, the color on this website will try to keep it just black and white. And the plan is to use a video for the background. Example IGN
For the navigation, this website component vertically organized. Example Gamesradar
For the characters, it is very important to make it big and clear enough to express the content. Bad example Kotaku
Content:
Based on the responses the gamers, I have chosen to include the following content areas:
Video game blog: that contains articles about game update and changes including pictures and video.
Pro stream: A pro guide or tutorial about how to doing better in certain games. (either made by other gamers or website host)
Review section: where gamers share their experiences and comments is built to grow a family community of video game.
Links to other game official site and more professional video game website.
Presentation of Information/Rationale of Organization:
To provide a consistent look and feel across all pages and to give my audience a sense of connected fluidity in my site, all pages will contain / use
The same banner logo at the top of each page.
A heading just below the top horizontal navigation that will provide the Page Name
Same navigation conventions Same heading formats and colors all
Contact information at the bottom of each page
Link back to the home page
The home page
It will be laid out in a table format.
It will provide links to the main sections.
It will also contain a welcome statement, the mission statement and contact information.
All subsequent pages
will provide vertical navigation (as text with graphics) at the left side of the page.
I plan to keep the pages under four screen lengths
The following details the content of the proposed pages:
The Video Game Blog page
It will have a list of popular video games brand (listed alphabetically); the gamers can click the game they play. It will take them to another page which lists with articles about the updates and changes of the game and also there will be more links to other videogame website. Therefore, gamers can access more information.
The Pro Stream page
It will have a list of popular video games brand (listed alphabetically); the gamers can click the game they play. It will take them to another page which lists with videos stream that is unloaded to the website. Gamers can watch whichever the video they want. Also there will be links below to bigger game streaming video website like Twitch and Youtube.
The Review page
It will have a list of popular video games brand (listed alphabetically); the gamers can click the game they play. It will take them to another page which on the page will have a blank space that everyone can leave comments or share links. And other people can access to it and reply or even hit a like. (example: it is very similar to our web canvas discussion section) Also there will be links to the reviews to other game website.
Media
I will create my personal logo by using photoshop and if possible I would love to make a motion graphic logo in Aftereffect for the logo design. Since this is a video game website, all images we using in the website are originally from the game or other artists. I will make an extra page and links for the citation and credits in a very professinal way. These will include a featured photo on the home page, photos of the varieties discussed in the review section and video game blog All images will be optimized for web use and credit will be given to the authors. I intend to include this statement below each image, "Photo courtesy of name." I'll include a footer statement such as "All images used in this site are original. Any further use of these images is prohibited."I will do the same thing to both videos and audios
Color scheme and rationale:
My goal for this website is to make it simple and clear.Therefore, I decide to use balck and yellow for the primary colors. Text will be black or yellow and the links will be blue.All the same color I use for different purposes will match.The backgroud will be black mainly.
All material in this site is original and created by the site owner, Fuchun Song. Any further use of the material is prohibited without permission from the site owner.
