The document provides an initial plan and schedule for a video game project. It includes the following: - An initial reaction where the creator likes their animations but needs to improve movements and may change their pixel art character design. This gives them ideas for their final video game. - A mind map and mood board were created to influence the final product. The mood board showed the importance of color and different game types. - A 5 week schedule is outlined with tasks like experiments, research, planning, production, and evaluation. The first weeks involve design and animation, later weeks involve finishing animations, sounds, and assembling sections into the full game. - At least 7 sources are listed that will

1. Initial Plans
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2. Initial Reaction
• I like the animations I have made, the pixel art design looks good and I
am improving in the movements of them.
• Even though I am improving, I need to improve more on the
movements as it is a very important area for my final game.
• By sticking to my pixel art design, the walking cycle will be more
difficult as my design doesn’t have much leg. I may have to change my
design a bit just so I am able to do the running cycle properly.
• By making these experiments, I have ideas in my head of what I want
to do as my final video game.

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
• Something that consistently comes up in my mood board is colour. There’s a heavy
mix of every single colour in my mood board and I will mimic that in my game,
making a colourful and good looking game.
• There’s also a similarity in every game on my mood board. They all show full court
games as part of their game. This is something I won’t do and will try to be
different to other existing products
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• My mood board shows different types of games and the colours that the sport
involves. This has let me know that colour is a very important area to make a good
game. Every kit has a different colour and if I am doing a game which has two
different teams, then the audience will also consist of those two colours.

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 Create walk cycles and other short
animations.
 Create three ideas and narrow it down
to one.
2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
 Analyse and research other games that
are similar to mine. See what I should
be doing.
 In more detail, talk about my audience
and my plan
 Create a detailed plan which will allow
me to create my game more easily
3 Production  First week will be spent designing
everything. Towards the end of the
week I will then start to animate it in
photoshop. However, designing then
creating all the characters and menus
will take a few days
4 Production  The second week of production will be
spent finishing the animations. Then I
will have to create the music and sound
effects. Once all of this is done I will put
all of the different sections together in
Premier to make my full game
animation
5 Evaluation  In my evaluation, the most important
area to concentrate on is what areas I
like and what areas I need to improve
on next time. It allows me to see what I
can do better, and so next time I do
something like this, I’ll know what I
need to do.

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. Visual Concepts. (2018) NBA 2k19
2. Electronic Arts. (2016) NBA Live Mobile
3. DoubleTap Software (2017) Basketball Battle
4. Dreamon Studios (2017) Bouncy Basketball
5. Namo Gamo (2018) Basketball Classics
6. Joycity (2015) Freestyle 2: Street Basketball
7. Saber Interactive (2018) NBA 2K Playgrounds 2