Documentation Project - Evaluate the Competition

 

Your analysis of the competition for your game is a section to include in your final Documentation project. This section will also be graded separately. For this project, evaluate the competition for your game. What games are similar and what are their audiences? How will your game appeal to similar audiences? What will set your game apart?

 Suggested resources

  Trade magazines from the Gaming area, which usually consist heavily of game reviews.
 
  What's currently on the shelves at Best Buy or Babbages   or Blockbuster or Wal-Mart, or other stores in the area that are selling games in retail outlets. Look at sources that have added games to an existing store where you wouldn't traditionally go to make that specific purchase, such as Staples or the grocery store. When only a few titles are chosen for a small area of a store, which are the ones chosen and why? Of the stores where  you would purposefully go to buy a game (Best Buy, Babbages), which games are displayed the most prominently? Which games get the best shelves?
 
  What's selling at online juggernauts such as Amazon, which has a whole section devoted to Video Games, as well as the online stores for the stores listed above (Babbages, Best Buy or or Blockbuster or Wal-Mart, or any other online store).