The document outlines Jack Lowes' initial plans for a 2D adventure game project. It discusses his initial reaction which was that an adventure game would suit his strengths in visual design. It includes mind maps exploring game ideas. A mood board analysis notes inspiration from sprites and mysterious game environments. A schedule outlines the project over 5 weeks, including tasks like character animation, environment creation, and adding sound effects. The bibliography lists 7 sources for audience research and inspiration, including video games like Pokemon and Zelda.

1. Initial Plans
Jack Lowes

2. Initial Reaction
• After thinking through multiple genres I think I
would be most interested in making an
adventure game. I could potentially display a
console / pc game. The game should be in a
2D world where the world actually feels
interactive. I feel like my strengths lie in visual
design so that element of the game would
definitely be my priority.

3. Mind Map

4. Mind Map

5. Mind Map

6. Mood Board

7. Mood Board Analysis
• There are some similar sprites in these pictures. I feel especially
drawn to the smaller one that limit the pixels they use. Combat
seems to be a small theme here however many of the images seem
to create a foreign, mysterious game environment. I feel as though
my strong suit flows towards designing game environments so I
hope to be able to replicate the mysterious atmosphere in my work.
Despite the colours being very different, they all work with each
other in each image and create an environment. Although they are
not all identifiable this is what gives them uniqueness.
• Many of the art styles in the visuals are appealing to me and I am
sure they will help inspire my own art style. Along side this some of
the more high quality pictures have certain models or effects I
would like to include in my work

8. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 Creating one animated character
 Creating a bigger fully animated game
with sound
 Creating mind maps, mood boards,
mood board analysis and a bibliography
2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
 Existing product research.
 Proposing an idea
 Plans of final product
3 Production  Creating sprites, game environment
and multiple step processes.
4 Production  Adding HUD, start screen, victory
screen and potentially text.
 Animating the visuals
 Adding sound effects
5 Evaluation  Reflect and what worked/ didn't work
and reference what would be done
differently next time

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. .Nintendo (2005) Pokémon mystery dungeon blue rescue team.
2. .Treyarch (2010) Call of duty : Black ops 1.
3. .Nintendo (2013) Legend of Zelda : A Link between worlds
4. .Epic games (2017) Fortnite save the world
5. .Trendy entertainment (2017) Dungeon defenders 2
6. .The duffer brothers (2016) stranger things
7. .Bethesda game studio(2011) Skyrim.