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Research into Wordpress Interface

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As I have no experience using Wordpress, I wanted to investigate the interface so that I was familiar with editing the website. After logging in as an administrator, I first attempted to add a different theme to the already-existing website however this ruined the layout of the page which included the content, imagery, image slider, icons etc. (Own Image, 2019) Initially I thought that the original designer had added code to the back-end of the site which caused this problem. I decided to tackle the moving image carasole as this was causing the main problem to layout. I thought this may have been coded in however I found a plugin I believed was responsible for  this feature and decided to de-activate it. (Own Image, 2019) With this removed, the layout looked better but still didn't follow the theme that I had chosen. Design decisions included attempting to remove images/content/slider to understand how workpress.org worked. On reflection I would have need to le...

Gaming Components & Target Audience

I composed a simple list of things that I wanted my game to be/include: 2D Platformer Side Scroller Uses one scene Collectible items Enemies Non-Playable Characters to talk to (or them speaking)  Includes a message for the audience Target audience: Initially I was considering aiming this game primarily at children as I thought that a cute artstyle and a moral message would be more appropriate for a child. However I began to think more into my ideas and realised that a teenager/young adults would be better suited towards this type of game as the story may be too complex for a child to understand fully and the situation may be more relatable to this age group. Therefore my target audience is as follows: Mainstream audience: Teenagers Secondary audience: Adults Peripheral audience: Children No Interest: Individuals who do not play or enjoy video/computer games.