All physical work on this topic can be found on page 17 of the black sketchbook, and pages 9 - 13 of the black backlog.
Phase 4 is equally as long as Phase 3, spanning four weeks from Monday the 02nd of December 2019 to the semester 1 hand-in on Friday the 17th January 2020.
Phase 3 was about refining several throwaway game ideas into one final idea to move forward with.
Phase 4 is the final stage in semester 1, where our main game ideas are fully developed and honed, and we create a full 'game project proposal' document. As well as this, we must create prototypes from our idea, to demonstrate how certain things would work in-situation.
To complete this phase, we must:
Create a fully finished, rich game project proposal document
Create prototypes, artefacts, concepts, mechanics and a visual style for our game
Decide where our game fits into the market, what platform(s) it will be played on, create the game's story and aesthetic
Sketchbook (page 17)
29/11/2019
Presentations are over!
Phase 4
- Ask questions!
- Select one idea - create a honed piece
AIMS:
Create a rich game project proposal.
Can be any format, digital or physical
Market, platform, story, design, aesthetic, visuals
Play (testing & playing other games)
Now is a chance to create prototypes.
Present this at the end of Week 12 (10th January 2020) 3 term-time weeks. This must be done in full.
Evidence must be gathered, collated and packaged.
Create concepts
Understand mechanics
You must ask questions to finish the work in this semester.
- Things don't have to be finished but they must nearly be finished.
- Make artefacts
- Clear & consolidated
- Work out a schedule to write about.
Feedback on Idea #1:
Where does your game fit into the market?
Why would people want to play it? What's the USP?
Your game could be changed from a D&D setting by having 'selectable' character stories instead of set encounters
Rank up the ambition this semester, think about game jams
Take a research trip to Southampton CIC
Don't make your idea overly-complicated
Week 10: 02/12/2019 - 08/12/2019
Week 11: 09/12/2019 - 15/12/2019
Week 12: 06/01/2020 - 12/01/2020
Week 13: 13/01/2020 - 17/01/2020
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