Katie Scragg – Mario Kart Phenomenon
Katie’s DA is about the Mario Kart culture and she will be playing the game and uploading Tik Toks of her doing so. I really liked reading up about her idea and thought her pitch was super informative and factual as I genuinely learnt so much. I had no idea that Mario Kart was its own culture.
My comment on Katie’s pitch was reiterating the fact that her pitch was super informative and how and why Tik Tok is a great platform for her to use. I also suggested her to potentially use other platforms such as YouTube to reach to even more of an audience for those who don’t have Tik Tok (even though everybody does now). I also suggested that Katie live stream her playing the game as I feel her audience will be super into that as Mario Kart is such a fun and interactive game and there is so much to talk about during and after playing the game. I also linked an article I found on more background information about Mario Kart so that Katie is super informed with her game media and can understand fully the game she is playing and looking into.
Michaela Shales – Gender Sexualisation in Games
Michaela’s DA idea truly got me thinking. Basically, her idea is to play the mobile app game ‘Episode’ and analyse it by looking at the gender sexualisation of the characters, more specifically the females. This pitch got me thinking about how important it is to look at this aspect of life with global societal issues because simple things such as video games has more of an impact on us than we realise when it comes to this sort of thing.
The comment I left on Michaela’s post spoke about my views on the topic. I thought it was super relevant for me to do so as it shows that she does have an audience and that her pitch gets people thinking about what she is talking about. I also thought that her uploading these videos of her playing the game to YouTube is a really good idea as it is the best way to engage with this type of audience, as I too, watched the example and inspiration behind her DA idea. I linked a PDF file to some information on the undermining of females in video games which I found really interesting and is relevant to her idea.
Lydia McGahey – Positive Impacts of Games
Lydia’s idea is something different that I would never have come up with. Her idea is to interview her friends and others to talk about the positive effects that video games have on them and things such as their personality, beliefs etc. I think this idea is so interesting and a really important thing to consider. I think we don’t realise how much of an effect things such as video games have on us, whether that be positive or negative.
My comment on Lydia’s post spoke on my views of what her idea is and that maybe she could not only talk about the positives but also the negatives. I suggested that she could also look at people of a younger age as well as the age group she has requested as that way she can compare the effects of video games when they first came out to video games now that they have evolved so much. I also linked her to an article about the effects video games have on sleeping as this is another aspect of our lives that she could look into with her interviews.
Overall:
My 3 comments contributed to the above pitches as I gave my views on the topic and gave other suggestions on how to expand their DA ideas. I gave relevant links of which I found interesting to show them the types of things their audience will be into when looking and following their DA. I think I could be more engaging with my comments by possibly suggesting more things, such as other games or maybe even books rather than only articles.
I learnt so much about all 3 areas that I read up about when commenting and what I liked most about all 3 pitches and ideas is that they all got me thinking about the topics. I truly cared and was interested in what they were talking about which just shows the relevance of their ideas and how well it is being received. Not only did I learn so much about their topics but I also was thinking about my own views when it came to their DA ideas. Therefore, out of this experience I learnt a lot and found out that I am interested in more areas of life than I thought.
~ R.
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