How Many People Play Video Games?
If you’re a coffee-lover and enjoy playing video games on a console or even your mobile device while on break, then a Coffee Dealer Joe video game might be what the barista ordered. Explodingtopics.com shows statistics that there are approximately 3.09 billion active video game players globally, with 45% being females, 52% of all gamers are subscribed to at least one gaming service, and the gaming market has a current valuation of $282 billion. Overall, there’s a lot of demand and money to make in the video game industry. Should Coffee Dealer Joe Gifts invest in developing a video game to entertain its fanbase?
To figure out if a video game is worth the time to make, we have to ask a few questions. *Note: Not all of the questions will be answered in this article.
- What types of video games are there?
- Out of that list, which ones are most probable for Coffee Dealer Joe Gifts to make?
- What would the graphics look like?
- How much does it cost to make a video game?
- How would we get funding?
- How badly do you want a CDJ game to play?
Types of Video Game Genres
Video game genres range from puzzle games like Tetris to first-person shooters and battle royals like Fortnite. Based on an article from Juegostudio.com here is a list of the Top 12 Most In-Demand Game Genres.
- First-Person Shooter
- Sports
- Survival
- Role-Playing
- Battle Royale
- Action-Adventure
- MMORPGs
- Fighting
- Racing
- Real-Time Strategy
- Simulation
- Puzzle
After looking at this list, we have to determine which genres are possible by looking at where Coffee Dealer Joe Gifts is as a business. It was still in early development at the time when this article was created. We have to remember that it’s a small business and not a giant franchise like Amazon or Dungeons & Dragons, where they have a ton of money to spend, fans who love the products, or lore that can generate more content and information. Let’s eliminate some genres. Currently, there’s only one character to focus on, which is Joe. We’ll remove fighting, racing, MMORPGs, and battle royales since they require multiple players. First-person shooters don’t have to include other players because you could just shoot-up some cups of coffee as target practice, but here’s the biggest problem with this genre. We can’t see Joe! Playing a game and viewing the character you’re playing makes a big difference psychologically. It’s like watching a movie where you don’t know what the main character looks like. Let’s eliminate this option. Narrowing down this list is looking good so far. What’s a “real-time strategy” game? “In real-time strategy games, players must attempt to build their resources, defend their bases and launch attacks while knowing that the opponent is scrambling to do the same things.” – Techopedia.com. Gathering coffee-based resources and then throwing cups of coffee and coffee beans at enemies sounds like a lot of fun! But, like survival and role-playing games, there’s a lot of strategy, content, game mechanics, and lore that needs to be created for these types of games to come out well. We’ll keep in mind a Clash Royale, Stardrew Valley, Legend of Zelda, and Pokemon style video games, but for now, we’ll cross off the genres of real-time strategy, survival, and role-playing games. It’s time to take a look at simulation games. They were first released in the 1980’s involving a wide range of aspects of real life – from city-building games to flight simulators, public transit management games, and sports management simulators. Adding Coffee Dealer Joe into a simulator game might not be exciting enough. The game could be about making coffee, but we run into the same problem as the first-person shooter genre where there’s not enough visual focus on Joe. After analyzing a majority of genres on the list, we have our top 3 options to choose from.
The Top Three Genres
The top 3 most possible video game genres for Coffee Dealer Joe Gifts to create are sports, puzzles, and action-adventure games. For the sports genre, we would have to focus more on solo sports like golfing, bowling, surfing, archery, and running. There’s a ton more of single-style sports we can look at, but we have to remember about the game’s story. What does Coffee Dealer Joe do? If you read some of the captions from our Brain Games and Free Wallpapers sections, you’ll learn that he sells coffee on street corners and dark alleyways. In Brain Game: Maze #000, the story tells us that he’s running late and has to meet up with a client on the other side of the city. This is a perfect story for a sports genre game that includes running or even skateboarding. A game that we could reference is Imangi Studios Temple Run series. This is a mobile game where the main character is running and your job as the player is to swipe left, right, up, and down to avoid obstacles and not fall off a cliff or be attacked by a monster. By adopting this gameplay and switching it to the Coffee Dealer Joe theme, we can add coffee beans or a cup of espresso to give the player an extra life or points in the game. The environment would be a cityscape instead of a temple, and a police officer could be chasing Joe instead of a monster.
Next up are puzzle games, which are about testing problem-solving skills and range from math questions to trivia games, Tetris, and classic solitaire. Like the sports genre, there are tons of options we can dive into for puzzle games. But hold on! We already have a form of puzzle games. The Brain Games shared on social media and the Coffee Dealer Joe website represent the puzzles you’d find in a coloring or activity book. They’re not designed for motion. Should there be an upgrade to Brain Games and transform them into a video game? Let’s take a break from this thought and move on to the final video game genre.
Action-adventure video games involve taking down enemies, exploring, using problem-solving skills, and following a story. These elements are merged from puzzle and role-playing games This genre of video games has become one of the most popular in the market. Currently, the best action-adventure games are Hogwarts Legacy, Stray, The Last of Us, The Witcher, God of War, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Now that we know the most popular ones from today’s generation, let’s take a historical look at the games that helped this genre grow. In the 90’s, we had Super Metroid, Tomb Raider, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past which were considered the best action-adventure games of the time. With the action being the main source of entertainment, can an action-adventure Coffee Dealer Joe video game work? From what we know, there is a story we can follow of Joe selling coffee to customers on the street and not being caught by the police. With the help of Brain Games, we can create some fun problem-solving objectives. Other genres we haven’t spoken about are stealth games that we could include. For the “action” portion of the game, we can include a platform genre like Super Mario Bros. or Sonic the Hedgehog where Joe throws coffee cups at customers to gain points and at police to trip them up.
Which Genre Do You Want to Play?
There are more factors we need to talk about, such as video game graphics, and platforms like mobile, pc, ps5, and xbox. Who would be designing and coding the game? After figuring out the answers to those questions, funding becomes a major concern. For a small start-up like Coffee Dealer Joe Gifts, making a video game will cost a lot of money. Using a crowd-funding site like Kickstarter could be the key to accomplishing the goal of creating a video game. There’s one more question needed before starting a project like this. It’s also the most important answer! Which is “How badly does the Coffee Dealer Joe fanbase want a video game to play?”
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