P5

A)

identifying trends 

Legal & Ethical issues

LEGAL

In terms of legal issues, these tends to be about who owns the rights to something, or whether you are slandering (saying something about someone that is not true), or sometimes it can be a legal issue of making sure your content is not breaking the law (as in 
there is no suffering to animals depicted)

ETHICAL

Ethics are more of a minefield and there are certain ethical considerations that we have in the west that are important to understand. Ethics is about what society views as right.

Such as – is there a balance between male/female genders

If there are,  are these stereotypical roles (eg powerful  and strong male, weak female often dressed provocatively)

Is there swearing, are there weapons?

Southpark is controversial because a lot of people disapprove of its ethics. However, the producers might argue that it is for a small cult audience who are adult enough to know what is right and what is wrong.

What are the legal and ethical issues of your production and can you justify them?

LEGAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
The name of my game might have been taken.	To solve this, I will have to copyright my game and its name to stop other people from suing me or stealing my game idea.
Stolen soundtracks to put over the top of my game.	I have used sound tracks that are royalty free so I have all the rights to use it in my game without any legal issues.
The game principle may have already been used/ made Stealing people’s characters	The idea for my game is original (own I.P) I have made sure I have created everything myself so I have no worries about stealing other people’s creations.   I have created my own characters so I don’t have to worry about legal issues

ETHICAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
A lot of violence and swearing	Don’t have any violence and or sexual content in the game so it doesn’t include any ethical issues
Making a Stereotype for a certain group of people or a person	I won’t stereotype the characters to offend a person by making them the same gender. In my game, I have stereotyped my characters by making them both male which can be seen as an ethical issue but I have spotted the issue and have added a new character that is female
Avoid Sexism	I have tried my best to make the game equal with genders so I have left out any sexist comments or views.
Avoid showing social habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs	To keep the game child friendly, I am going to leave out drugs, alcohol and smoking so the people playing the game doesn’t make these social habits acceptable.

Week 1 : I researched different games and genres and picked  genres I believed Where top genres that people play.

Week 2: I selected the genre I was going to make my game About and I started drawing sketches and a prototype

Week 6: Started making a prototype and found the bugs that needed to be fixed and also wrote down what parts ihn the game don’t work.

Week 9: i programmed and went over the bugs and glitches and made sure the game was running smoothly.

Week 12: I did the characters design so there was interaction in the game.

Week 14: I created the environment using top programs to get the best visual outcome.

Week 15: I created and found free sounds that I would use in my game.

Week 16: I created a user interface that was easy to navigate and fully functional.

Week 17: the game went through quality assurance.

Week 19: I realised the game to the public on a many of the platform on the day 14/11/2018 (14th November 2018).