Grand Runeterra Tavern Community Hub

Shougang Hao

《International Core Journal of Engineering》 7卷9期 (2021/09) Pp. 221-228

https://doi.org/10.6919/ICJE.202109_7(9).0033

摘要

Grand Runeterra Tavern (abbreviated to GRT), is a project aiming to be a community hub for casual and gaming enthusiasts by offering a dedicated website and forum. This website will attract users by offering esports streams, scores, news, and community tools like the forum and match scoring. As the gaming industry grows, so has its esports sector, with numbers over 380 million viewers in 2018. This growth is only predicted to continue into 2021 to 557 million (Newzoo, 2018). Breakout games such as League of Legends have already shown their potential, outstripping traditional sport view ships such as the MLB and NBA, partly thanks to its more international appeal and audience. Revenue-wise, esports is relatively young, investments into tournaments have reached close to 700m with analysts predicting it to reach 1.4 billion by 2021. This growth will be driven by more major named brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and DHL investing in advertising across esports in general. With the esports scene also growing in Australia, we have found an opportunity for our project to tap into those investments and develop an esports community website.

關鍵字

Community Hub ； Community Website ； Forum

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