Jay Birkin plans to create a new video game to gain experience in the genre. He is considering puzzle or shooter games since they are new to him. As he is not a strong artist, he plans to make a first-person 2D game without visible characters. Puzzle games could include mazes or matching, while a shooter may involve sniping given the lack of such games. His mood board influences the dark, mysterious tone and inclusion of choice-based gameplay like in The Walking Dead game. During production, he will create backgrounds, characters, sounds, and animate everything together in Photoshop and GarageBand before reflecting on the final product.

1. Initial Plans
Jay Birkin

2. Initial Reaction
• I could make a numerous amount of things and I would like to try something new which I
have never done before to get better experience about video games. My options are from
genres such as puzzles and shooters which are new too me and I have never tried before. I
am not as good at drawing characters from hand in pixels so I am probably going to create my
game as a 1st person 2D game so you cannot see the character, just through the eyes of
him/her. My opinion on these game types are that they are some of the best and fun
challenging games out there and I hope my idea can be too, with them you can be very
relaxed at times and just take your time to complete them, which is why mine might be a bit
darker and have a timer so it seems like it is much more challenging. Puzzles can include
mazes and matches games, and with a shooter I might do a sniper game because there are
not many of them and I believe I can create something pretty fantastic.

3. Mind Map

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
• Yes there is a few bits of repetition in my mood board. The colours and mood of most of the pictures are
darker colours apart from the city game and the witness puzzle game. These are brighter because they
attract the eye more so people will buy and they are more relaxing games. The images include not any
characters they are all 1st person games and they look okay. Even though all puzzle games are different
they are also pretty similar in many ways which Is why you want to combine other genres of games into
them to make them more interesting.
• The black colour is the absence of colour. Black is a mysterious colour that is typically associated with the
unknown or the negative. The colour black represents strength, seriousness, power, and authority. Black is
a formal, elegant, and prestigious colour. Authoritative and powerful, the colour black can evoke strong
emotions and too much black can be overwhelming. Black is required for all other colours to have depth
and variation of hue.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• My mood board will influence my product quite well considering it is where I am going to be getting most
of my ideas from. Because of the walking dead choice option I have decided to include this idea in my
game. Seeing all the buildings in city games makes me not really want to create one because it seems like
a lot of effort and time when I can create so much more on a puzzle genre. For the final video game
product I am going to have to include a title and logo and even a character although you cant see him to
give the game more meaning. My mood board has such a variety of images on it such as choices, different
puzzles and colours that I will have to do qualitive or quantitive research methods to narrow down the
idea for my game and get an intended target audience.

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Case Study, Initial
Response, Product
Research
 Complete my case study about sniper
elite III making sure I use the
production lecture. Also an initial plans
where i generate idea and a research
PowerPoint where I will look at existing
products.
2 Audience Research,
Production Experiments,
Proposal, Planning
 I am going to finish my experiment
PowerPoint by making experiments in
Photoshop and then I am going to write
about them including all the tools and
processes I took to make them.
3 Production  During this week I am going to go on
Photoshop and make my backgrounds
and characters for my game. As well as
this I am going to make all my sound
effects and music in garage band.
4 Production  At this time I am going to make any
extra details like a menu screen and
animate it all together and then add all
the sound over the top of it in premier.
During this I will also reflect upon
everything that I have made.
5 Evaluation  For this final week I am going to talk
about everything I have made and
reflect upon it in PowerPoint and If I
have any extra time and something
isn’t finished from earlier on then I will
come back to it.

8. Bibliography
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