The document discusses the stereotypical audience of the puzzle game Braid. It describes this audience as a nerdy, male gamer who spends much of his time on computers and would be intelligent enough to enjoy puzzle games over shoot 'em up games. The game had low-budget graphics and little advertising, so the audience would have needed the right online contacts to find the game. Overall, the audience is portrayed as insular, anti-social but highly intelligent males in their 20s from America or other English-speaking countries who have little social life outside of gaming.

1. The Audience Of Braid
By Emily and Sarah

2. The Stereotypical Audience of
Braid
• The stereotypical person who would play
Braid is a nerdy, male gamer who spends
most of his time on computers.
• It is a puzzle game so the gamer would be
expected to be intelligent, rather than
someone who simply enjoys RPG shoot
‘em up games such as Call of Duty

3. Braid Trailer
• From the trailer we can see that the
graphics are not very advanced due to it
being low-budget.
• The game was not widely advertised and
very few people saw the trailer, unlike
games for the Wii which are widely
advertised.

4. Audience
• How is the audience represented?
• The audience is represented as insular,
anti-social yet highly intelligent. They
would have to have the right contacts to
find the game because it was not widely
advertised. The audience is not
represented in a positive light by the
press.

5. Audience Profile
• Male in their 20s, intelligent and possibly ‘nerdy’
who enjoys indie games.
• Probably American, because it is an American
game that received very little publicity, or if not
they would probably be part of the English-
Speaking world.
• The gamer probably has very little social life
outside the internet and spends most of their
time on the game, rather than being someone
who plays the game occasionally.