Intentions and Ideas for The Sunday Gamer – James Rouault

The task of producing a cover of a magazine for gamers suited me as I used to game a lot and have a lot of friends that game. During our induction day we had some time in the lesson to produce a draft on paper. I used this draft to structure my design when I began to create it in Adobe Photoshop. Below is my draft and finished product; as you can see there are some changes, but they are very similar. However, it doesn’t look like a magazine cover.

So, I searched online for gaming magazine covers and this is what came up:

I noticed my cover didn’t look like any of the others; so, I started again having done a bit of research on what the magazine covers should look like.

A game I used to play a lot was Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, so I found a portrait image to go as the image on my cover as I had noticed all the others had one larger image that filled the cover.

Then I added the name for my magazine, The Sunday Gamer. I had seen a lot of the covers put the text behind the head of a character if there was one. So, I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to do this.

I then went back to my previous cover and looked at what I put around the sides of the cover to see what I could reuse. So, I kept the free Envavo Heatbuff for when you subscribe to the magazine and the article on what is the best gaming phone. I put these in the red banner at the top of the cover. I then found new images as I didn’t like the old ones and wanted to get rid of the background, so it is just the product on the red banner as this is a clean and professional look.

I then put in the bottom left corner another hint at an article in the magazine that is about the new Oculus Quest which is a VR headset that has no wires.

I then went on the Ubisoft website to find out the latest news on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and there is a new season coming in the next couple of weeks, so I said I was making an article about what is expected of the new series.

I thought of the name for the magazine as I work at M&S St John as my Saturday job so I looked at the papers and saw a lot have daily in the title however no teen would buy a magazine daily, so I thought go weekly, I then saw that the daily papers offer a special Sunday edition. Therefore, I came up with the name ‘The Sunday Gamer’. It could be sold as a separate magazine on Sundays or it could be a supplement in one of the Sunday papers.

Once I had the name, I decided to make a logo for it using Adobe Illustrator. I came up with the idea to put the name of the magazine into a TV/monitor as to play any games you need a screen.

I chose the font Bebas Neue as it is blocky and chunky as gives a style that is similar to what games often use.