Final Project Proposal: Design Your Own Game

The first part of your final project is a proposal that outlines the design of your game and your plan for implementing it. Your team will present the game design during class on Friday, November 3. The purpose of this presentation is to solidify your ideas to the point you can explain them, develop a plan to implement your game, and to receive input from the class on your ideas and plan. All team members must be present on the day of the presentation and must be able to answer questions about the proposal.

Specification

Develop a web page, linked into your course web page as your Project page, and a 10 minute in-class presentation with the following parts.

• Game Overview
  Describe in one paragraph the theme and structure of your game. If the overview of your game takes more than 500 words, your game is probably too complicated.
• Game Design
  Describe about the parts needed to implement your game, including at a minimum
  • Sprites needed in the game
  • Trackers needed in the game
  • What happens upon collisions
  • How score is kept
  • The levels of the game
  • Resources (images, sounds, etc.) needed in the game
  • Opening splash screen and those between each level
  • How the game ends (both winning and losing conditions)
• Prioritize Game Features
  Describe your game in more detail than in the game overview. Specifically, categorize the aspects of your game that are essential to making the game functional and other aspects which would be nice, but not necessary. It should be clear from your description what parts of the game you are near 100% sure you can complete for the first user test session. If you do not think you can complete the basic game in this time frame, reevaluate your game and try to come up with some ways to simplify the game.
• Possible Enhancements
  Describe what you could do to make the game better. Be sure to prioritize by the difficulty of the enhancement and its added benefit. Try to do the simplest enhancements first (like better splash screens) and more complicated enhancements as time permits (like special bonus levels).
• Timeline
  Create a time table that estimates when you will be finished with each task in your game. Include on your timeline:
  • Design of video game classes, methods, and state.
  • Implementation of basic game.
  • Testing/debugging.
  • Documentation.
  • Enhancements.
  • Release.