English Department Petra Christian University Jl. Siwalankerto 121-131 Surabaya 60236 Phone: 031-2983066 Email: katakita@petra.ac.id Website: https://katakita.petra.ac.id/
Adrian Darmasaputra(1*), Priska Febrinia Handojo(2),
(1) English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia (2) English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
This project is a gaming information blog that contains types of interesting news referring to the result of the survey on the news that might interest youth video gamers. Based on the survey, the types of news are games’ soundtrack, games technology, and superheroes news. The project is also designed based on copywriting theory to create emotional breakthrough and simple design theory to create a truly-simple gaming information blog. The basic concepts of the blog are simple design, four news articles, and three sets of tone. The four types of news are news about games, games’ music, games’ technology, and superheroes. These four kinds of news are different from the other similar types of blog that only contains gaming news, as in Gamespot.com and Kotaku.com. The tones are friendly, sincere, and sarcastic tone. The gaming information blog has four pages; they are You’ll Like These Games, You’ll Like These News, Release Dates, and About Us. The youth video gamers can access this gaming information blog, search for the four types of news, and comment or discus with other gamers by writing on the comment section of the blog. In other words, youth video gamers can share their ideas or opinions through this gaming information blog. In conclusion, this gaming information blog has differentiation in terms of the types of news. The various types of news in this blog make this blog unique. It also means that the youth gamers only need to access this blog to get more than one kind of news when they access the other similar blogs. Furthermore, this blog can be developed to have its own domain.
Keywords
gaming information blog, blog features, domain, gaming news
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