Joshua Meredith plans to create a Pokémon-style pixel art battle game for his project. He considers a Pokémon, Street Fighter, or Duck Hunt style game and decides Pokémon would be easiest as he is familiar with the gameplay and style. His game will feature two original grayscale characters battling in 3 turns, showing moves, damage taken, and experience gained. He creates a mood board and schedule to guide the project, which will include designing characters, animating moves, and assembling the battle scene over 5 weeks. Research sources will include various Pokémon video games to reference the gameplay style and mechanics.

1. Initial Plans
Joshua Meredith

2. Initial Reaction
• As soon as I got told this was the next project I
already had the idea I wanted to do. This is
just artwork in frame form so it is a skill I know
well and have done before. In my opinion this
project is very easy for me and can get done
quicker than every other product ive done

3. Mind Map
Pokemon style game:
Similar to pokemon red but my
own design
Grayscale to limit colours and
give me more time
Show the battle scene
Minimal animation
Easy to do
Wouldn’t take a lot of time
Not too easy but not too
difficult and ive also played
pokemon before quite alot
Street fighter style game:
Similar to street fighter but my
own designs
Also grayscale to limit colours
and give me more time
Show the fighting scene
A lot of animation
Not easy to do
Would take a lot of time that I
don’t think I have
Already done before
Too complex
Duck hunt style game:
Similar to duck hunt but my
own designs
Grayscale aswell to limit
colours and give me more
time
Show the gameplay as
theres very minimal
Very minimal animation
Cant show controls of
playing the game
Very easy to do
Wouldn’t take time at all
Too simple

4. Mind Map
Pokemon style game
Two characters
Both characters facing eachother to give clear indication of which character is
yours
Grayscale color scheme so its very simple to do and makes the game have an old
and retro feel to it
Both characters will be original and not based of off any other pokemon
Will do the battle scene
Dragon type vs flying type to show dragon moves and flying type moves
Moves may be used from original game
Same sort of animation to pokemon
Very simple task and shouldn’t take a long time to do
Will last 3 turns
My characters gets hurt aswell
Shows xp gain at the end aswell of the character

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected?
Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• Most images are grayscale as that’s the colour scheme I'm
going for when making this. All these photos show the same
type of screen as that’s what my product is going to look like
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• My moodboard shows a very good indication as to how the
final product will look

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 experiments was coming up with
designs and testing my ability in making
pixel art and testing animations and
how it works, my initial response was
talking about how I thought on the
product and how I felt with it. Research
was me finding other games that fit
with the product I was making
2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
 continuing to do research talking about
games that are similar to my product
and why. The proposal is me giving all
the details on. My planning will be
making sketches of the characters and
them move looks
3 Production  this will be making all the sketches
become the final artwork. Giving the 2
characters full body art and starting on
making the commands on screen
4 Production  finalising the product and putting all
together with all the animations in
place
5 Evaluation  give an overall evaluation on how my
product went and my thoughts on the
making of the product

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. The Pokémon team (1996) Pokémon Red
2. The Pokémon Team (2000) Pokémon Crystal
3. The Pokémon Team (2004) Pokémon Emerald
4. The Pokémon Team (2006) Pokémon Pearl
5. The Pokémon Team (2010) Pokémon White
6. The Pokémon Team (2013) Pokémon X
7. The Pokémon Team (2016) Pokémon Moon
8. The Pokémon Team (2019) Pokémon Sword