Genre Conventions

Genre Conventions

Game	Genre	Typical conventions
*	Guns/War	You would expect to see a rather dull colour, to connote a sense of mystery, and it also doesn’t give much away. You, on this type of game, would expect to find a gun. The typeface on this is Tough and metallic looking which connotes the gun, or another metal like object; Helicopters, planes etc...
*	Childrens Game/RPG	On a children’s cover you would expect to find lots of bright and exuberant colours and a friendly looking character, which would give the children a more accepting feel. The bright colours also link in with this, as if the game cover for this was similar to the last one, i don’t think children would want it. The typeface, is quite large and easy to read, which is helpful for the children who will be playing the game. The colours you would expect to see are bright colours such as; Pinks, yellow, oranges and as in this a subtle blue,
*	Football	On a football cover you would usually expect to see, a player playing football or possibly a direct picture of a match or a stadium. on this cover, you see the footballer’s are celebrating a goal, which tells you that they may only put the better goal scoring players on the front cover, which is similar to magazines and tv in the sense that only the best, most perfect footballers can make it to the cover. The title ‘FIFA 14’ is quite rounded, where it can be, this may link into to the type of text used on football shirts, sponsors, club logos etc…  or the style of writing used on logo’s throughout ‘The FA’ and ‘FIFA’
*	RPG/Crime	This sort of game is just a general RPG game, it is also very focused on crime. So you would expect to see pictures of ‘the ghetto’, drugs, guns, cars, prostitutes, etc… The typeface on this game, is like a graffiti style which again is the sort of style you would expect to find in the game. In many first person shooter games they tend to, have very rough typeface, metallic like, connoting guns or graffiti, like this game, connoting crime. Whereas the top game seems to be rather disaster-struck scene, as in many other RPG games seem to just focus on the guns and violence there is some variation between RPG games as they are not all similar, like 1st person shooters.
*	Music	On a game like this, ‘band hero’, you would expect to find instruments, such as; drums, guitars, bass’ etc.. You would also expect quite a low PEGI Rating. As well as bright colours, as you would want to attract the attention of younger children. The typeface is very reflective of the style of music that is in the game, ie, Pop music may be very extravagant colours; oranges, yellows etc. Whereas Rock music may be the cool blue colour, this colour perhaps again giving a feel for the game.
*	Children’s games	This sort of game, a children’s game, you would again expect to find an array of different colours, again to attract the child’s attention The title on this game is very free-flowing and fun, like a carnival, the bright colours and ‘NEW’, will also grab the eye of the gamer.