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1. Evaluation
Bailey Dyble

2. Research
I think my research for this task was very good
and very useful because it allowed me to
implement parts of successful games into my
own. I think I looked at a good selection of 4
games which were both 2D and 3D style. This
allowed me to appeal to my target audience.
From my research I also got the idea of the
changeable characters which can be bought or
earned but offer no competitive advantage in
game. Almost all the games feature
upgradable characters which often offer
different skins on the characters with a
microtransaction.

3. Planning
I used the mind maps I created to generate ideas for my game, I thought
about the look I wanted and what I wanted the player to be able to do in the
game. For the actual contents of the game, I knew my artistic ability but I also
know what I managed in the experiments.
The only thing I never considered for the planning was a name, I saw that
multiple games in the genre feature the word "run" but other than that I had
no idea, examples being "Minion Run", "Temple Run"

4. Time
Management
I don't think my management of time was
too bad, I managed to get everything done
on/around schedule. However, if I had more
time and/or a greater drawing ability I
would have definitely included a more
detailed background and character however
to save time and make animating the
running/jumping cycles easier I kept my
character as a stick man. I was going to add
more details to the background but ran out
of time and had absolutely no ideas how to
draw what I wanted (having tried and
experimented with different things).

5. Technical Qualities
I used lots of delays on the starting screen, with the
longer delays on the different characters and shorter
delays on the arrows.
By using the delay between frames feature, I managed
to make the character speed up at the end of the run
before the eagle gets you.

6. Aural Qualities
The sound for my game I'm not too fond of. I think I did an alright job with the
jumping sound effect but the running and the menu screen's music I think
could've been improved. It would've been much better if I had managed to
sync the footsteps and the sound effect but trying to do this in beepbox made
it extremely difficult.

7. Aesthetic Qualities
There are not very many positive qualities to
the aesthetic of my game other than the eagle
which I am very proud of and I think looks very
good. The character is really simple as I
wanted to be able to animate the running and
jumping cycles for it, due to my lack of artistic
ability this limited my characters complexity as
it would need to look the same on every part
of the cycle.
I have however kept a similar style of art
throughout the game and the starting/loading
screens

8. Audience Appeal
I think I have done an alright job at appealing to the target audience because I
have followed a similar layout to the games which are successful in the
industry. However I am almost certain the lack of graphical complexity would
reduce the audience appeal because it doesn't look like a good game and
doesn't hold the same impressive look as many of the other games.