Minecraft (Fact File)

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Example Exam Questions:

Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video game production, distribution and consumption. Refer to Minecraft to support your answer.

Production
-How the games have been developed through time

-Convergent- means that you can have many things on it.

-Genre sandbox game
-Made in 2009
-Global games market is now worth in excess of US$ 100 billion and UK is 4 billion
-China is the fastest growing sector, currently enjoys US$ 24.4 billion versus America's US$23.6 billion.
-Improvement of the internet speeds has lead games to develop
-Minecraft is a sandbox game, created and developed by Swedish based Mojang Studios.
-It had started but wasent really popular as the company didn't have money fro advertising.
-The game was first placed on sites such as Penny Arcade.
-On January 2011 the beta version of the game had passed over one million purchases in just only one month.
-By April 2011 Persson estimated that US$33 million of revenue had been made.
-In November 2011.
-By 2012 it went on Xbox
-In 2013 Minecraft Pi edition meant for educational purposes for novice
-In 2014 Microsoft acquired Minecraft intellectual property for 2.5billion.
In 2015 it 121 official copies of the game have been sold across a variety of forms and platforms