HA11 Task 1 - Analysis

My chosen game is a MOBA game called League of Legends. MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena or also known as action real-time strategy or ARTS for short. This is a genre of strategy video games which originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy.

Analyse the genre’s characteristics - the codes and conventions of the genre, the audience and purpose of the genre and how the genre has changed over a period of time.

Analyse the narrative structures – how does this allow the player to engage with the codes and conventions of the genre.

Analyse the representation of characters - consider issues such as how gender is constructed and represented, who is present or absent, and who is positively and who negatively represented within the genre’s narrative.

Lists of games in the MOBA genre

• Smite
• Dota 2
• Vainglory
• Gigantic

• Talk about the differences in art, gameplay and camera angles.
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• talk about how communicating through a headset could make teamplay much better.
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• The atmosphere becomes more intense at some point.

 The game that I have chosen is called League of Legends