Task 3 Business Models

Explain the three business models of: Arcade Box, Ship and Done Observe, Measure and Modify.

Arcade Box - Coin:

In this ere of games design small puplishers, maybe one or two people (maybe more), designed the game, programmed the game and then built the hardware for the game to go in. (Arcade Box's) The money was made when people vsited these aracdes and put in there money (Coins) so they could play. This was a very simple method but it generly genrerated a large income due to peoples adicition to the game. Some people could spend hundreds of pounds in just a few weeks playing in acrades on games such as; Space Invaders, Pac Man and Asteroids ect.

Box, Ship and Done:

In this ere of games design the publishing compaines had grown much larger into teams of people working on the games development, hence the job role developers. This is when the first home video game consules were realsed and the companies making these consules would simply make them and then box them up ship them out and then... That's it! That's all they did, except maybe create game for the consule or work along side a differnt third party development team and publisher their game. But, that's all that happend.

Observe, Measure, Modify:

This is the ere were playing viddeo games at home became a lot more popular, so the publishers and developers had to step up their game and work with the ever advancing technoligy in the world around them. It was no longer enough to just make it and ship it out, they had to look at reviews and take a whole new varity of things into account while creating a game, things like graphics. People want state of the art graphics with a scernery to compliment it, not forgetting a story to really make the game feel involved. Even after all of this their work is not fineshed, they have to look at their product and try to make it better by creating exrta content like add ons/micro payments and genrally downloadable content. Then they must find errors within the game and fix them using patches.