First Research

Since being told that my dissertation title was too vague, being "The social side of gaming" I need to come up with a new one.

Ideas I've had include:

• The integration of social media in games
• The advancement of gaming through social media
• The benefit of social media in the gaming industry

So far I'm leaning towards "The advancement of gaming through social media".

The past week I've been looking at tutorials teaching app development on Android -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOWNXGRc6g


I'm trying to get an early start on developing the FaceGen app to go with my dissertation and my final major project.

Also I've been looking statistics with regards to online game usage. There a plenty of statistics online that can back up my dissertation, here are just some of the links:

• http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/online-gaming-statistics/
• http://wearesocial.net/blog/2010/11/10-mind-blowing-social-gaming-stats/
• http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/03/0324_game_esa/index_01.htm

There are plenty of stats on these websites such as "53% of Facebook users play games" and "There were 217 million online gamers worldwide in 2007". These two stats alone show that there is potential for my idea. I need to research more into smartphone statistics.


EA GameFace:

The top 3 of the pictures are my EA Game Face as seen on the website, but when transferred into Fifa 2010, as you can see in the 4th picture, the likeliness is lost. This shows that there is room for improvement in the FaceGen department, which opens up opportunities for my Smartphone app idea.