Gemma Nicholls outlines her initial plans for a video game project. She considers different game genres like platformers, puzzle games, and shooters. Platformers seem most interesting with ideas she has. Her reaction to the brief was positive about creating characters and backgrounds. She will create mind maps and a mood board to explore 3 game ideas and set the theme. A schedule is provided with tasks over 5 weeks including character/level design, animation, and evaluation. Sources for research are listed like game websites, images, and target audience opinions.

1. Initial Plans
Gemma Nicholls

2. Initial Reaction
• My initial thoughts where what types of games I
could make; infinite runner, puzzle, choice
game, shooter, fighting game, platformer, etc.
they all seemed really interesting, but if I had to
chose one I was looking at most I would be the
platformer as I had a few ideas as to what I
could do.
• My reaction when hearing the brief was a
happy one as I could create characters and
backgrounds and it was something I was looking
forward to

3. Mind Map
Bubbl.us or hand drawn-scanned using college
printers exploring 3 potential ideas

4. Mind Map

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated
colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
My mood board consists of a variety of different screen shots of platform games.
The art style majority shown is not to complicated, it is all pixel art with a variety
in different details. Most of the images I chose show outside levels with bright
skies. Repeated colours in my images are; blue, green, brown, turquoise, white,
light yellow and pink. The darker colour pallet images take place at night or
underground, these images use more reds, deeper blues, black and orange . A few
images show text from characters speaking using text boxes or completing
something (“new sequence”). The text is easy to read, understand and it uses a
blocky font to match the pixel art.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
My mood board will influences my final product by helping me keep my theme
consistent. Also it will also help me chose what colour I use when creating
characters and backgrounds. My mood board will also influence what kind of
levels I create and the style of art I want to make my videogame be created to
look like.

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 create and animate 3 different
experiments .
 Write about my initial reaction, create
mind maps to help me think about
different game ideas and create a
mood board to think about what kind
of game I want to create.
2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
 Research existing products
(platformers)
 Plan for my own game , audience ,
concept, rational and evaluation
3 Production  Create all the characters, character
text/ movements, monsters/ minions.
 Create all the backgrounds and
different levels that the character will
appear on
 Create any needed props.
 Product reflection
4 Production  Create anything else needing
 Start to animate to make a coherent
videogame.
 Product reflection
5 Evaluation  Evaluate my planning, making and
target audiences pinions of my
videogame animation.

8. Bibliography
• Name at least 7 sources that you plan to use in this project. These should include audience research,
books, videos/films/video games, magazines and newspaper articles etc.
1. Google. (July 12, 2001). Google images. Available: https://images.google.com/. Last
accessed 15 Feb 2019
2. Levon & Kiril. (Jan 2006). bubbl.us. Available:
https://bubbl.us/044067005838618173. Last accessed 15 Feb 2019
3. . FDG Entertainment Games. (November 17, 2016). Super Cat Tales/ super cat tail
2:cat adventure (phone games). Available:
https://neutronized.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Cat_Tales. Last accessed 15 Feb 2019.
4. . Silicon Jelly. (22 march 2016). Mimpi Dreams. Available:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/444770/Mimpi_Dreams/. Last accessed 15 Feb
2019.
5. . TicToc Games. (4 Jun, 2015). Adventures of Pip. Available:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/303550?snr=2_9_100000_. Last accessed 15
Feb 2019.
6. . Nintendo. (). Super Mario. Available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario#Super_Mario_Bros._2. Last accessed 15
Feb 2019.
7. Target audiences opinions