Kallum Sykes evaluated his product design project. His research involved examining existing video games to get ideas for techniques to incorporate. He looked at games targeted at his intended age range. For planning, he experimented with fonts and color schemes. While one game he created differed from his original plan, it provided learning. He acknowledges not managing his time well and wishing he could have added more details. His product was an infinite runner game like existing ones but with his own character selections and interactions. Strengths included unique sound effects and music, though he could have created more sounds. He wishes to have improved the simple background. The audience appeal came from balancing simple designs with complex animations.

1. Evaluation
Kallum Sykes

2. Research
• My research helped my product because I got to look at other existing
products from a professional games designer. I looked at some different
video games and I got some good ideas that I could add into my work. The
reason I did this is because I got to know some good techniques that I
could add to my work and make it the best I could.
• A strength of my research is that I had a age range that I was targeting so I
knew exactly what I wanted in my product so that it would appeal to
correct age range. This is good because if I put something that would
appeal to children into the product then older people will not want it
because the will think that it isn’t for them.
• In my research I could have had a look at many other games so that I could
get different ideas from other games instead of the same type of game
that I was going to create.

3. Planning
• Some of the strengths of planning my product is that I get to see and
experiment with different fonts. I can use different fonts and put them
into a powerpoint and then I can find different fonts that match my
genre. Also another strength of my planning is that I can plan colour
schemes that will work well together so when I look for images I know
what colour to look for. This helped in my product because I used a lot of
different colour schemes that looked good together.
• A weakness of my planning is that I made one of my games completely
different to the game that I was planning on creating. On the other hand if
I did the same game I wouldn’t of got much from it. SO it was kind of a
good idea and also a bad idea.

4. Time Management
• If I am honest I do not think I have managed my time well because I have
had to go into the Christmas holidays but I have still completed everything
and made sure it is all handed in. if I had more time I would of gone over
every document that I created and added as much detail as I could until
there is anything else to talk about. Also if I had more time on my final
product I would of added a better background and put more detail into
the game. I would of added mountains into the background and also put
moving objects like birds flying around.

5. Technical Qualities
A similarity that my work has with the existing product is that we both have the same concept of game.
They are both infinite runner side scrollers where they have a character that runs and dodges obstacles
and collects objects. Also both of our games have a point system where they run along the screen and
collect as many coins as they can. A difference that my work has with the existing product is that they
have a detailed background where as my background is very simple but effective.
A strength of my work is that I have added a system where I choose what character they want to use
and then focus on the character picking up everything throughout the course and interacting with the
obstacles. A weakness of my work is that I have is I could of added a moving background to make it look
that much better but that’s was not needed.

6. Aural Qualities
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A strength of the audio elements throughout my work is that I have added a
different sound effect throughout the whole video game. Also I created my own
music that plays over the game and I did this by using the website
www.beepbox.co. A weakness of my audio is that I have not created my own audio
for some of the sound effects. This would of improved my product because i think I
could of made them much better.
A similarity between my work and the existing product is that we have both used
sound effects when something major happens. For example in my product when I
die there is a sound effect showing that I have died and in the existing product
when they shoot a sound effect happens that indicates they are shooting. A
difference between my work and the existing product is that they have dialogue of
the characters don’t. This would of definitely made my product much better If I did
this or at east made mine interact with the audience.

7. Aesthetic Qualities
I think my work looks good as all of the colours come together nicely and
aren't too over the top. Also the characters that I created a very well put
together and I spent a lot of time designing them. I think my work was also
creative because I created the different objectives and all of the obstacles that
were put into the game. If I could improve anything on my game, it would
definitely be the background because I kept it very simple as I didn’t have
enough time to make the background look better. I Probably would of changed
it to have clouds in the sky or something else like that.

8. Audience Appeal
My product appeals to my target audience because I have made my designs
simple but then I spent more time on the animation. I think my audience
would rather have a simple design but then make the game a little bit more
complicated.