initial plans

1. Initial Plans
Erin Stephenson

2. Initial Reaction
✨An idea of what I could create could be a game based around
collecting items with a larger goal in mind, similar concept to
the Mario games.
✨I believe I am good at the simplistic style of 8-bit games
however I want to try challenging myself and going that step
further to try and experiment with different techniques, tools
and software.
✨Personally, I do not play a lot of video games however
growing up I enjoyed playing all the Mario games on my DS
and still remember the frustration of not being able to
complete a level so by creating a video game it is giving me
this sense of nostalgia I had growing up

3. Mind Map 1 – book based puzzle game

4. Mind Map 2 – musical notes game

5. Mind Map 2 – sea version of candy crush saga

6. Mood Board

7. Mood Board Analysis
✨ In terms of images being repeated, there is a significant number of
images relating to my book based idea with the matching memory game
✨ For colours, the ideas tend to follow a less colourful approach with greys,
blacks and whites for the piano and rune idea whereas the beach candy
crush game follows a cool tone palette and colour scheme
✨ My mood board will influence my final product by using similar colours
that consistently appeared
✨ Another thing part of my mood board which will influence my final
product will be the symbols used such as the runes.

8. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 Trialling out sound matching with
animation
 Pixel art experimentation on PS
 Idea Generation
2 Product Research,
Proposal, Planning
 Looking at products in detail
 Complete proposal
 Further planning
3 Production  Create runes
 Create cards
 Plan menu screen
 Trial first animations
4 Production  Create sound for intro fails success
etc.
 Complete menu screen
 First level finished
5 Evaluation  Start second level
 Complete second level
 Fix any glithces if necessary
 Finalise sound

9. 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. Developer. (Year of Release) Game’s Name
2. Clare, C. (2013) The Shadowhunters Codex
3. Freeform (2015) Season 1 Teaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA6nGwUwLt4
4. Smule (2010) Magic Piano by sule
5. Clare, C. (accessed 2019) Cassandra Clare Information
https://www.cassandraclare.com
6. Clare, C (2007) City Of Bones
7. Harald Zwart (2013) The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones