Badge Design

Here are my first designs for my badges that I plan on making. I used google images to help me look for ideas and then I drew my own small badge designs. I later ticked the ones I like and crossed out the ones that were really rubbish.

This is the cover design for the piece of cardboard that will hold my badges. I copied my 4 favourite designs from the previous page, added a title as well as a small piece of text to add some content.

Analysis Section 2

X-men Cover Written Analysis

The game is about the Marvel X-men. The idea of the game is that you can become these powerful characters, Wolverine, Iceman and Nightcrawler, so the genre is definitely Action. So many people love these characters so would love to play as them. The game is as official as it gets. It even features the voices of the actual cast of the X-men, the Last Stand, which is what the game is based off of. The game is heavily based on action, since these are 3 very powerful characters. The back cover says "Master the power of the X-men" which means you'll me able to play as a lot of them.

The characters are featured a lot, their faces are on both the front and back covers. It's undeniable that Wolverine is the main character since he is always featured in the front, in middle frame in full colour, with Iceman and Nightcrawler behind him to his right and left.

Game is well produced, you can tell that by the company names at the bottom. Activision is a large company, with a history for producing good games. Marvel are also now known for their live-action recreation of popular comic book super heroes and villains.

Wolverine's claws are featured a lot on the cover. Claws, especially Wolverine's, since they are made of metal, are very intimidating, but also look very powerful. This shows that they will be used a lot in the game as you play as him. It's also a co-incedence that Wolverine has 3 claws, and this game is made from the 3rd movie of the X-men live-action franchise, you can see this feature used on the front cover.

The "X" logo recurs a lot throughout the cover, meaning that the X-men are very powerful. The X on the front cover is also the same colour/texture of Wolverine's claws that overlap it.
The cover has a very ordered layout. Everything 

Print Analysis Section 1

Repetition

1. Claws repeated over the cover. There are 3 claws because Last Stand was the third film.
2. Blue background copied from front cover over onto the back cover.
3. The 'X' logo of the X Men repeated constantly but also matches the Xbox 'X' logo.
4. The X logo on the front cover repeats the metal colour of the claws over it.
5. Company logos repeated on the front and back covers.
6. The shape of the X is repeated on the front but also on the spine.
7. Wolverine himself is repeated over the front and back pages. He seems like the main character.
8. White text and small image boxes repeated.
9. Xbox logo repeats the green inside of the X.
10. The characters are repeated on the front and back covers.

Contrast

1. Orange text and white text contrasts.
2. Metal claws and metal X logo almost blend, the opposite of contrast.
3. Black and white contrast on the spine and on the top left of the back cover.
4. Iceman's, Wolverine's and Nightcrawler's costumes are all different colours as to contrast.
5. Nightcrawler's blue face contrasts with Wolverine and Iceman's white skin.
6. Orange text contrasts with black background.
7. The Xbox X and the X Men X contrast each other.

Alignment



1. The front cover is almost symmetrically apart from the text. Very simple shapes.
2. The X is in line above the text.
3. 'The Official Game' is straight and centred on the cover.
4. The title on the spine is in the centre and straight.
5. In line with the text below it.
6. Also in line with the text above and below.
7. The segments of white text separated by 'X' logos in even order.
8. Famous actor's names in a row with the more famous towards the top.
9. Company logos all in order and spaced out.
10. Information regarding warnings and other things in neat order.

Proximity



1. The characters are all in proximity of each other, like they are a team.
2. The characters are all together again, but Wolverine is in front, and in colour, so he is obviously the main character.
3. The X on the front cover is behind the 3 claws. Because this game is of the third X Men film.
4. The text on the back cover is all in close proximity in order to keep it compact and neat.
5. Small images of in-game cutscenes all close together in order to be quickly scanned over.
6. Company logos all in close proximity.

Hand Drawn Type ideas

This is my attempt to mimic as many type fonts as I could on a single piece of paper. This helped me to understand how different typefaces can be used and what kind of feeling they portray.

Subject Matter Drawings

Mood Board

This is my digital mood board for my video game case cover. I looked at lots of images of future-related things and added them to this mood board. This helped me to see what kind of design I should go for on my own game cover. It also helped me to see other game covers, such as the "TimeShift" one, which I have decided to partly base mine off of.

Video Game Case Digital Draft

This is my second attempt at a digital draft of my Game Cover. 

I have used lots of bright blue neon colours to make the cover seem more sci-fi.

I've made sure to include screenshots from other games to include as gameplay for my game cover.