1. Explain how video game producers can affect the video game industry. Refer to Minecraft to support your answer. In your answer, you must also consider how social contexts influence the video game
Minecraft is the most successful video game of all time, most recently taking over Tetris.
It was created and designed by Markus Persson in 2009, who also developed and published the game through his company Mojang. A full version of the game went on release in November 2011.
In the involvement of creating this interactional successful game Perrson was a lone creator. This magnifies his talent and success. This creative idea Came solely from his mind and was developed in 2009, unaware of the significant success Notch would have over the video gaming industry. This huge success caught the eye of major companies, such as Napster, Microsoft and Mojang, in which they brought it a couple years later. They bought it on the terms of Notch being able to still have full access over the game. This is because Markus Perrson developed a close community of fans, who helped Minecraft be the game it is today. Minecraft is largely community based, this means that the producers rely on the information the minecraft community gives them- exploring the themes of interactivity with the fans, making minecraft connect with their audience. The Beta version of minecraft makes the game better and bonds with the community more. The beta version allows the audience to play an unreleased game and report back any aspects that don’t work/ need replacing, before it is released fully. Mojang’s minecraft keeps up the exciting themes by having many different modes - survival, creative, hardcore and adventure. It makes a widespread game for the community allowing a range of gameplay and keep expanding their already large community
The community within minecraft is just as important and the mojang development team as in reality they are themselves. Mojang's minecraft relies on the community to find problems and possible new gameplay features to further develop the game. They play the game as it is being made, as said earlier in the beta version, and this allows for mojang to find the next thing they need to add. Moreover they also hold large scale events, for example Minecraft live, this event tell the community all the new possible features are to be coming to Minecraft, in doing this they are able to get feedback but they also allow the community to vote, live on new features, for example new mobs (creatures that the player can interact with in the game). In turn, without the gaming community, Minecraft would not have the flexibility and span of content that it does today as the Minecraft community are the ones that make the changes and create the game itself. Mojang would struggle to be as widely praised
In conclusion, video game producers affect the video game industry by relying on their audience to find problems within the game for them to fix, as shown mostly by minecraft. Community is the key in the development of games as if they developers didn’t listen the game wouldn't be what it is now.
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