The document outlines Thea Jennings' initial plans for a matching video game project. It includes mind maps of game ideas, a mood board analyzing matching game aesthetics, and a production schedule. References include Candy Crush, Water Splash, and articles about the mechanics and success of match-3 games to inform the planning and design of the project.

1. Initial Plans
Thea Jennings

2. Initial Reaction
• I could make a simple match game such as
Candy Crush and Pokémon Shuffle
• I could create my characters using shapes
other then drawing them myself
• I’m good at making backgrounds

3. Mind Map

4. Mind Map

5. Mind Map

6. Mood Board

7. Mood Board

8. Mood Board

9. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected?
Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• There is repition in the colours of the shapes used in games
which are bright colours such as red, blue, green, purple.
• The image styles are also repeated as all the pictures I have
chosen are matching games.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
My mood board will influence my final product by my product
becoming a matching vidio game

10. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
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2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
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3 Production 
4 Production 
5 Evaluation 

11. 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. King (2012) Candy Crush.
2. Anon. (7 Apr 2017). Water Splash - Cool Match 3 game overview. Available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feiw6LHny8c. Last accessed 24th Nov
2019
3. Tracey Lien. (Feb 26, 2014). From Bejeweled to Candy Crush: Finding the key
to match-3. Available: https://www.polygon.com/2014/2/26/5428104/from-
bejeweled-to-candy-crush-finding-the-key-to-match-3. Last accessed 24th
Nov 2019.
4. Anon. (2019). King. Available: https://king.com/. Last accessed 24th Nov
2019.
5. Anon. (2015). 50 Games Like Candy Crush Saga: Let's Crush'Em All. Available:
https://www.findmesimilar.com/2013/04/games-like-candy-crush-saga.html.
Last accessed 24th Nov 2019.
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