Computer Game Development and Design 2020/21 fall

Design Document

Your game design document must have the following components:

1. The name of your game
2. Names of the team members
3. The summary
   1. What is your aim?
   2. How do you begin and what do you do?
   3. How does the game respond to your actions?
   4. What changes in game over time or as you progress?
   5. What must you do to keep up with the game progress?
   6. How does the player fail and succeed?
4. Game Design canvas (template is below)
5. Add detailed descriptions and illustrations for following canvas cells:
   1. Market research - (screenshots of similar games)
   2. Meta-game - (describe your meta-game elements and add an illustration if possible)
   3. Storyline / Setting / Theme - describe and add illustrative pictures from the internet (don't use other game screenshots)
   4. Visual Style - describe and illustrate the visual style
   5. 1st level mockup - drawing of your first level (can be part of your paper prototype)
6. List of tasks for your minimal viable product (MVP)

Bonus: State the intention, scope, purpose, and scale for your paper prototype. Create the prototype itself and include a photo of it to the design document (This task will give up to 2 bonus points)

Empty Game Design Canvas:

Game Design Canvas with explanations:

Prepare to present your game idea next week, slides are required but you don't have to submit them in courses:

• 5 minutes for presentations (2-5 slides)
  • Present your team
  • Describe your game idea
  • Describe the planned MVP for 1st milestone
• 1 minute for answering questions

Only one person in your team has to submit (all names have to be in the document). Submit one well-formatted PDF document!