Conventions of games covers

after looking at a range of game covers from the same genre of game, that there was many conventions that are in each game cover.

Front Covers:

In an analysis of the front covers of sandbox games, we can see that the main conventions are:

- Protagonist in the centre of the frame

- Title of game shown

- The environment of the game in the background

- Form of weapon shown (iconic weapon)

- Enemy of the protagonist

- Logo of producer

- Platform of game in iconic place

- rating of game in bottom left corner

- bright colours (colour shown)

Back Covers:

In the back covers of sandbox games, the main conventions are:

- small description/ insight to what game involves

- between 3-5 images of game play/cinematic scenes

- range of in-game characters shown

- game details in the bottom 3rd of the cover

- creative scene to set the mood (example; joker with spray paint/ knife in water for far cry 3)

- Larger image in the cover that isn't in a frame

In the game image frames:

- unique feature of the game

- Characters in the game

- Action scene

- Enemy shown when obvious (example; joker in batman/ lizard in Spider-man)