PLAN

PLAN:

Task 1: Plan

Procedure: Write a plan on what I’m going to do from the beginning to the end and how I am going to do all these steps in Create. Include the equipment I need, any problems I might have with realizing this game, what I am going to teach through it or how it is going to benefit someone else, and my audience.

Task 2: Familiarize with Game Salad

Procedure: To plan my game I have to first get familiar with gaming in general, so I’m going to go on YouTube and watch various tutorials so that I can understand some of the terminology and get comfortable with the program I’m using. I want to watch videos that are at different difficulty levels so I can understand where my game should be at.

The three main videos I’m going to watch are:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0-mZqMUbY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YhFnT72xVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7z8pvKvQTU

Task 3: What is appealing to the audience

Procedure: I’m going to ask people which are familiar with computer games what makes a good game good. One of these people is going to be my father.

Task 4: What do I want to do?

Procedure: I’m going to do a list of possible and realistic ideas, and then from that narrow it down until I manage to chose one. What I’m going to do needs to be something that I’m going to enjoy doing and something which is interesting and educational to an audience.

Task 5: Audience

Procedure: Once that I chose my game, I need to chose my audience which will help me decide on how hard and how educational my game is going to be. The audience I chose is also going to be the audience that will evaluate my game in the end in order to give me feedback and constructive criticism.

Task 6: Software and Designing  

Once I have all of the tasks above completed, I will draw out on a paper my scenes and what I want my characters to look like. This plan will also include some of the rules and regulations. I need to also decide on what program/ software I want to use: Kodu or GameSalad. I’m probably going to choose the software which works on a mac so that I can work on it at home.

Task 7: Creating the game

Procedure: I am going to create my game and write a short evaluation on how much I proceeded in that day. In these evaluations I will have to include how much time did it take, what I did, any technical problems I had, etc.

Task 8: Finishing the game

Procedure: Once I am going to achieve what I want to achieve, I am going to go back to this plan and see if I followed the plan in order to so I can give my self a fair and understandable evaluation.

Task 9: Evaluation

Procedure: I am going to complete my evaluation, and write it according to my plan and creation. My evaluation is also going to change depending on the feedback I get from one of the audiences.

Evaluation of Plan: I think that this is a good plan, I think that it is effective because it is clear and easy to understand. It is going to guide me adequately and clearly through this project helping me realize these ideas into a game. For this plan to work like I want it to, I need to keep a time line at home so that every day I can see at what point I’m at and understand if I’m on track or behind. I didn’t make any modifications to my plan in terms of creation because I think that I will be able to finish it on time and efficiently.