presentation research findings

2. What this presentation is about.
This presentation is going to be about the
findings from the primary and secondary
research I did for a classic game and a
modern game.

3. What is Research?
Research is finding facts or looking into something
extensively. Research involves finding facts about what
you are looking into.

4. Primary Research
Primary research is when the researcher does researches
something by actually doing it and not finding information about
it from somewhere else. For an example if you are researching
a game using primary research it cant be taken from anywhere
else, you can play the game yourself and write what you found
in the game itself as research.
I did primary research on The Legend of Zelda – A link to the
past. I looked into the game in depth from the gameplay
mechanics to the story.

5. What I found
I found out how different classic games from modern
games.
 The gameplay feel is really different because of
the engines used.
 There is very minimal and only basic animations
used.
 Less detailed than modern games.

6. I played the game my self on a Super Nintendo in order to do the
primary research.

7. Market Research
I also did market research for the game and it was very
simple and used real people to represent game
characters. It was all just straight the point letting the
consumers know what's in the game and why they should
buy it.

8. Secondary Research
Secondary research is the most common type of research used in
the industry today, secondary research is using data that is already
processed, Researchers usually look at already created videos, articles
etc. to collect information that they need.
I did secondary research on a MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena)
called Dota 2. I did secondary research on the game mixed with some of
my own experiences in the game. I explained how the game works in
terms of gameplay mechanics etc. I also explained how the items and
heroes abilities work in the game. Towards the end of my research I did a
survey and got some people to do it to get some statistics on how many
people played the game and actually liked it etc.

9. DOTA 2

10. Map

11. Main Roles
 Support
 Carry
 Pusher

12. Hero categories

13. Heroes and abilities
Charge of Darkness
Empowering Haste
Greater Bash
Nether Strike
Arc Lightning
Lightning Bolt
Static Field
Thundergod's Wrath
Bloodrage
Blood Rite
Thirst
Rupture

14. Counter picking
The hero you pick will also decide if you win or not. All heroes’
abilities can be countered by other heroes for an example Riki, a
hero who can be permanently invisible until he attacks and then he
we will visible for minimum of 2 seconds. His invisibility would go
away if he is silenced or tracked. Heroes like silencer with his
global ultimate ability to silence everyone in the map and bounty
hunter with his ultimate he can track someone for which would give
his team vision of Riki for some time.

15. Items on Dota 2
Items play a big part in this game, the items you buy in a game will
determine if you and your team will win or not.

16. Market research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
cSFPIwMEq4

17. Conclusion
In conclusion Researching these games made me view games really
differently than usual. It made me think about how the games work,
how developers made these games and how much research went into
these games.
For an example in Dota 2 the researches had to research what the
consumers liked from Dota 1 and what they didn’t like. So that they
could take out what the consumers didn’t like about Dota 2 leave what
they liked.