1b Assessment

Minecraft Timeline

17th may 2009 – First release of the game
21st may 2009 – Accounts can now be registered
24th may 2009 - Official Minecraft forum is opened
8th June 2009 - Multiplayer released
20th October 2009 – Beginning of survival test
29th January 2010 – Introduction of the crafting system.
17th June 2010 – Minecraft passes 20,000 sales
22nd July 2010 – First over internet test of survival mode multiplayer
16th October 2010 – Mojang is founded
22nd December 2010 – Minecraft beta version is created
12th Jan 2011 – Minecraft reaches a million sales
1st July 2011 – Minecraft passes 10 million registered users
16th August 2011 – Minecraft pocket edition released for Xperia play only
17th November 2011 – Pocket edition released on IOS
9th May 2012 – Released on Xbox 360
25th October 2013 – Java update 1.7.2 released ‘the update that changed the world.’
13th December 2013 – Minecraft for Java surpasses 13 million sales.
4th September 2014 – PlayStation 4 edition released.
5th September 2014 – Minecraft Xbox 1 edition released.
10th December 2014 – Pocket edition released for Windows phone
30th June 2015 – Minecraft for Java Surpasses 20 million sales.
13th October 2015 – Minecraft Story mode released.
17th December 2015 – Minecraft Wii U edition released
2nd June 2016 – Minecraft sold over 100 million times over all platforms, makes a 2nd bestselling game.
27th June 2016 – Minecraft announces the release of Minecraft the movie for May 24th, 2019
1st November 2016 – Minecraft education edition released
19th December 2016 – Minecraft pocket edition released on Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV.
May 11th, 2017 – Minecraft Nintendo Switch edition released
13th September 2017 – Minecraft released on Nintendo 3DS
December 2017 – Minecraft hits 74 million active players and 144 million total sales

Notch Article

Video Game Language Matching

Media Exam Examples

Reflection

Ownership:

-       Microsoft, Mojang

-       BBC

-       Disney

Q1

	Jungle Book 1967	Jungle Book 2016
Production	Storyboarding Xerography- Photocopying Musical soundtrack	CGI SFX- backgrounds Angel falls Animatronics 3D Cameras
Distribution - Marketing	Posters, merchandise, interviews on the radio	Super bowl trailer Social media – snap chat filter, twitter, Fb YouTube Website VR experience
Exhibition and Exchange	Cinema Disney vault Later VHS DVD	3D, platforms for seeing the film Cinema Netflix Sky Phones, Tablets, PC

Q2

BBC remit and Ben Cooper’s plan.

Production 630- 1-, music choices, presenter banter, gets celebrity interviews, friends/mates around the table, Nixtape – Give examples of real games, gimmicks what happens on his show, Type of music played.

Marketing – Social media R1BS, Social media Grimmy – Promote each other, website, cross-promotion between DJs, YouTube videos, Giveaways, Radio 1 weekend, teen awards.

Distribution – Radio, DAB, phones, FM, Spotify, podcasts, TV.

Audience – 15-29 Males/Females – how is the audience being targeted.

Q3

Notch- 2009 – YouTube, players share what they created, word of mouth below the line marketing, massive fans, community, play on PC.

Mojang - 2010, Licence, servers, further developed the game, Xbox, PlayStation – Minecon

Microsoft – in 2014- bought for 2.5 billion dollars – merchandising, more platforms, international, fans have to pay for extra things.

Video Games Introduction

Video game- A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display.

Action/Adventure. – Fable, The last of us, Dying Light

Simulation. – Sims, SimCity, Prison architect.

Horror. – Outlast, Until dawn, Slenderman

RPG. -

FPS. COD, Halo, Rainbow Six Siege

MMO.

Sports. – Fifa, f1, NBA

Sandbox. Minecraft, Roblox

Strategy., Halo wars, Direct Action, Act of War

Fantasy.

Kids.

Puzzle solving. Professor Layton, Mario,

All the computer consoles.

Sandbox.

Computer company. – Xbox.

Bootleg games. – Platforms.

Servers.