XP Project-Planning Game
XP Project-Planning Game
Planning game
Game Development Project
Brainstorming
Design
• What’s the basic interactive design?
• What’s the planned interface (UI and controls)?
• What’s the planned perspective (1st person vs. 3rd person)?
• What’s the genre of the game
• Is it single player or multiplayer?
• How difficult is the game?
• How long will it take the average player to complete?
• Story & scenario (if any)
• What’s a synopsis of the overall story?
• What’s the full story (going more in-depth)?
• What sort of scenarios are in the game? Are there cinematics and cutscenes?
Where in the story do they fit?
Gameplay
• Describe the gameplay
• Describe what a player would experience in a typical
playing sessions
• Describe each mission or level of the game
• Describe the preliminary maps of each level of the game
• Describe all the characters, and secondary characters
• Describe the sound design in as much detail as you can
(music, voices & sound effects):
Marketing
• Does this game target one core audience or
multiple audiences?
• Who’s the target audience and what are their
expectations of a game like this?
Game Theme
• A hiking trip
• A solo player
UI requirements
• Mountainous scenery
• Hurdles like narrow path, land slide, rain,
insects/wild animals!!
Market/Business requirements
• Single player
• Implement Head-up-display (HUD)
Sample stories
actions performed after game starts
Focus on what actions the player will take to generate some
output
Theme