Emma plans to create a dark, horror-themed platform game similar to Zelda or Mario. She wants the narrative to involve an alien invasion where the main character must save the world. Her initial mood board focuses on red and black colors to create an eerie feel, and features clowns as enemies and axes as weapons. Her 5 week schedule includes researching and experimenting with games, conducting audience research, creating game assets like backgrounds and characters, adding sound effects and animation, and evaluating her work.

1. Initial Plans
Emma Garthwaite

2. Initial Reaction
My initial response to the brief was that I had a few ideas. I would like to do a
platform game either action-Adventure or more of a horror, dark type of
platform game. I would like to do a simple phone game where there are
different enemies to fight. Similar to Zelda/Mario but a little darker. The
narrative could be a number of things but I like the idea of doing something
like a alien invasion and the character being the only one that could help the
world and can save everyone. There will be one main character and the
perspective will be 3rd person.

3. Mind Map

4. Mind Map

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
My mood board is very focused on the colours red and black to
create an eerie feel to it. This is a colour scheme I would like to
use within my actual video game. It is very focus around my main
idea with clowns as the enemies and axes being the weapon.
The horror mood is very prominent within my mood board
therefore really amplifies what genre my game is going to be.

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Case Study, Initial
Response, Product
Research
 research one specific game
 Mind maps
 Mood board
 bibliography
2 Audience Research,
Production Experiments,
Proposal, Planning
 research an existing product
 Cast two interviews
 Do experiments
 Analyse experiments
 Proposal
 Style sheet
 sound effects plans
3 Production  background
 Characters
 Enemies
 obstacles
4 Production  sound effects
 Animation
 Putting everything together
5 Evaluation  production reflection
 Evaluate research
 Planning
 Time management
 Technical qualities
 Aesthetic qualitites
 Audience appeal

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. nr. (2013). dead light lets play. Available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhvOTK9apdo. Last accessed 22
feb 2018.
2. nr. (2017). The overdreamer lets play. Available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toV1dl8c1b0. Last accessed 22 feb
2018.
3. nr. (2017). return game play. Available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VagmhhnK1fA. Last accessed 22 feb
2018.
4. Stranger Things Game, Bonus Xp Inc, 2017
5. Zelda ocarina of time, Nintendo, 1998