Platform game research

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Platform games are games that have some platforms on the game for each level or game. It is often very colourful because it shows who the target audience is for and a made up magical world. I think that Platform games are aimed for children and teenagers, sometimes adults depending on what type of games you enjoy playing. It is aimed for children/teenagers mainly because of the colours that is used in each game/level. It is appealing to children/teenagers because of the memorable characters that stick into the mind. Each level or game has their own secret or secret level that you have to either unlock or win or earn to play the level or bonus level. They are kind of secret in a way because you have to collect secret items. Most platform games are 2d but their is the odd 3d platform games.
A platform game is a game with different levels for each level or game of the main game or character.









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Sonic is a classic platform game character because of all of the powers and levels that he can do. He is a hedgehog with special powers, almost like a superhero. His powers conclude things like being able to spin and roll to collect things like coins and items. He has abilities of a normal hedgehog with added features which I like. This character is mainly aimed for people who like Sonic, mainly boys but the odd girl likes it aswell. He is always in a happy mood showing that he is a good character.  It is popular for people to play this game with this character because he is a super-hero. Also he has the ability to do unusual stuff that the audience wouldn't normally get to do. Sonic is a character with a wide range of imagination when it comes to helping, saving people. This isn't realistic because Sonic is just a hedgehog super-hero with an amazing super  powers/ability. Children love Sonic because of the crazy, cool stuff things that he does. The colours of Sonic show that he is a child's favourite character. The bright blue colour of Sonic show that he is a memorable character

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Alex the lion is a great Platform Game character because he is the main character to follow throughout the game. Other characters in this game pop up like Gloria (a hippo), Melman(a giraffe), Marty(Zebra), King Julian(Lemur), Mort(Lemur), Maurice(Lemur). Extra game characters include characters from the game/show Penguins of  Madagascar that I enjoy also. This is more of a bonus game because of the different characters that the penguins encounter, also the 4 main characters are used for the mini/bonus games. Alex is the main character because he is the character that has the background of being in the jungle and then abandoned to be sent to a Zoo where he is King of the Zoo and his name changes from his real name: Alakay then it is changed to Alex throughout the films and games. He is the character that you follow throughout the film or game where he befriends his best friend Marty, Melman and Gloria.  It is a popular game/character because it shows how Alex became Alex in the game or films. It is also popular because it shows different Zoo animals living in a Zoo with the ability to talk to each other like the penguins. This is a comedy because lots of interesting/funny stuff happens such as tripping/falling over to funny moments in the film or game. It isn't realistic because none of the characters in real life can actually talk to each other or do comedy slapstick in the world of being an animal. The graphics used in the films/programmes/games is the fact that the characters act just like the animals in real life with the bird features of the penguins bobbing their heads up and down and Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman having features of a real-life animal that they are.

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This  game consists of the main character called Horrid Henry. This game is a platform game because of the different levels and items that you as Henry have to collect. Henry is the main character/protagonist in this game because he is the mischievous, horrid 10 or 11 year old boy who doesn't like his brother or parents. His best friend is Ralph(rude) and his arch enemy is Margaret(Moody) who lives next door to him. Throughout the game/mini games you have to be Henry and help him do things such as collect goo and shoot the goo at some-one or something to collect points. He is in all of the games because he is the character that you play as, he is the main character in this game. He/the game uses bright colours showing that it is aimed for children. It clearly shows/states that it isn't allowed/isn't aimed at Adults because of some of the things that henry gets up to which an Adult or parent wouldn't appeal to but a child might learn from Henry's behaviour/ he is the comedy character throughout the TV series and game because he falls over stuff(slapstick) and does daft stuff that a comedian or sitcom would do. It is similar/ I think it is based on Miranda, Mr Bean because those are both slapstick legends. It is popular because a lot of children like watching Horrid Henry or to play his game, to see how good/great school is and how much a trouble-maker Henry is.



In my opinion I think that all 3 of these characters are memorable. This is because all 3 characters are bright and colour ful. They are also memorable because all 3 characters have great names that children will remember. I think that a character should have a great name so that you can remember the name and the characters. Also all 3 of these characters have different abilities. For example Sonic has the ability to jump and roll just like a normal hedgehog, even though he has super powers, Alex has the ability to be a lion and do the trapeze which I didn't know Alex did. He also has the ability of protecting his friends as he is a lion. Lions look after and protect their friends and family. Horrid Henry has the ability to be his horrid self causing him to get into trouble which his parents, teachers and sometimes friends.