My gaming magazine is going to try and target a larger audience by featuring different styled games which will attract more people. My front cover contains a a multi-style layout so that I can show my audience the style of magazine that it is through the front cover

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?

04 WHY 80S GAMING RULED

08 FORTNITE CHALLENGE

16 LEVEL UP

20 MARIO GUIDE: TACTICS

24 THE MAKING OF MARIO

28 THE MAKING OF SONIC

32 ULTIMATE GUIDE: MARIO VS DONKEY KONG

36 TOP 25 NINTENDO GAMES

40 TOP 25 PLAYSTATION GAMES

I have now decided rather than doing an interview with a professional games designer, I will instead do a how to tutorial with Adobe Fuse.

I liked the layout of this DPS as it is clear and I also liked the tilted title and images in a bordered box as I feel it it will appeal to my young teenage target audience. I will use the same house style (fonts and colouring) than I have used in my contents page and front colour.

Once I began designing my contents page, I realised it doesn’t follow the codes and conventions of a magazine cover. Therefore, I have looked at more exemplar contents pages and have decided to redesign my contents page and follow this style model as I liked the layout and the use of space.

Even though it’s double page, I am going to remove the welcome message. Instead I am going to have boxes with previews into games featured in my magazine and I am going to have a “plus box” with extra articles.

I have decided to redesign my magazine contents page as I feel this layout will appeal to my target audience rather than my original style model, which didn’t suit my teen target audience

double page spread ideas

contents page ideas

Theme: Adobe Fuse

What is it about?

• My DPS is going to be about how a majority of the popular games featured in my magazine are designed in Adobe Fuse.
• I will have an Adobe Fuse created character, one male and one female, in order to be inclusive and I will have the Fuse girl character have dark skin to be inclusive and give a good representation of my magazine as usually people only feature people who are lighter skinned.
• My magazine DPS will be radical as I will have a darker skinned woman posing in quite a masculine way in order to show that women and men are equal. My Fuse Character will not be doing something related with females, ie cooking as I want to challenge the dominant ideology and the expectation of females.
• I will follow the house style of my contents page and front page. What I mean by this is that I will use the same font and colouring as I did for the title of both my contents page and my magazine front cover and I will also have the title for my DPS the same font size as for the title I had used for my contents page.

Style Models

• I am going to design my DPS to look slightly like this “Gears of War 2” DPS. However, I do not like the tilted text, therefore, I am going to have the text straight.
• However, I am going to have the title of the DPS in the top left hand corner in order to follow the house style of my magazine.
• The coloring of the page will be fairly feminine colours (possibly a pale purple/pink) in order to appeal to my female target audience.
• I will put my text into columns in order to make it easier for the audience to read and to give it a clear appearance.
• I want to keep the title of my DPS quite simple so that it is easy to remember and effective to attract my audiences.

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