The Indie Game Analysis

My review of the indie game is aimed at 13 to 25 year old casual gamers, the target audience can be any gender but typically slightly more males watch gaming channels than females do. This video would be on a YouTube gaming channel as the website is popular with the target audience. The purpose of the video is to review the game, demonstrate the gameplay and to instruct the audience on how to download the game for themselves. The aim of the piece is to encourage people, as well as for them to download the game, to ‘like’ the video, comment on the video, subscribe to the channel and to watch the user’s other videos. This piece is influenced by other gaming channels, such as ‘Pewdiepie’ or ‘Markiplier’, who are also popular with the target audience …show more content…
I began by using a lexical set of technology, referring to “GameJolt” and “YouTube”, to show the practical aspect of the review, then moved onto a lexical set of murder, with the concrete nouns “culprit” and “blood”, to establish the crime genre of the game and provide escapism. I used the proper noun “Mr White”, which is also a reference to ‘Cluedo’, the noun phrase “masquerade party” and the concrete noun “manor”; to establish the game’s context and storyline.
I have used declaratives to inform about the game and evaluate it, such as “the controls are fairly simple” and using intensifiers to describe it as a “really good indie game”. I have used first person pronouns, the YouTuber referring to themselves as “I”, to show their opinions and direct address, using the third person pronoun “you”, so the viewer feels as if the video is more personal and engaging. I have used colloquial language as it is an appropriate informal register for the target audience because the YouTuber seems friendly and