This document outlines Connor Wiffen's initial plans for creating a video game as part of a brief. It includes Connor's initial reaction, which is that creating the game could be enjoyable but challenging. Connor has some experience with video games, animation, and pixel art creation. Potential game ideas are outlined, including an action game, space game, and puzzle game. Connor decides on creating a space game. Details of the space game's story, gameplay, and art style are provided. A mood board is included to influence the game's design. Finally, a schedule is outlined laying out the specific tasks to be completed each week over 5 weeks to develop the game.

1. Initial Plans
Connor Wiffen

2. Initial Reaction
• My initial reaction to the brief is that it could be enjoyable but provide some challenge.
• I do know a little bit about video games considering I have played a lot of them and have researched the
industry in the past.
• I am pretty capable with animating in Photoshop and creating pixel art creation.
• Creating my own sounds may be the most problematic aspect but with some practise I imagine it will
come out fine in the end.
• Any thing I do not know or understand I will research from different sources online.

3. Mind Map
Potential
Ideas
Action Game – A
side scrolling
action game where
the player controls
a dragon as it
fights other
mythical creatures
Space Game – A
top down Space
ship game where
the player can
customise their
ship, Battle threats
and explore the
Universe.
Puzzle game –
The player
travels through
time to fix
fragments and
restore the
timeline.

4. Mind Map
Final Idea:
Space Game
Story Outline
A singular ship is
separated from its fleet
and stuck in disarray due
to everyone becoming
an enemy. Stuck in
hostile territory – Players
must do whatever is
necessary to rectify it
and regain some form of
peace to the galaxy.
Gameplay
Top down view of the created
ship with the enemy on the
screen as well - combat works
with selecting where on the
enemy ship you will target
(Weak and vital points) and the
battle will take place in turns.
Out of combat the ship can be
controlled by moving from
system to system where
random encounters and
scripted events would take
place.
Art Style
Detailed pixel art to convey
as much detail as possible
in the abstract style

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated
colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
They are all made from Pixel Art which is the style my game will also adopt.
They commonly portray Space as more vibrant than it actually is with a lack of
black space.
Blues and Purples (Colours that contrast well with the darkness of space)
Ships are brighter colours to again contrast with the background and make it
easier for the player to actually see them.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• Designs of the ships
• Style of Space
• Basic Layout of the HUD

7. Schedule
WEEK§ OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Case Study, Initial
Response, Product
Research
 Discuss chosen game in detail
 Think of ideas for a game.
 Research similar games to the one I want to
create.
2 Audience Research,
Production Experiments,
Proposal, Planning
 Come up with relevant questions to ask my
intended audience.
 Play around with my game’s concept
 Plan out the look and feel of the game
3 Production  Create pixel art assets for the two space ships
(Player and Enemy) and the backgrounds for the
game which will consist of Space related
content.
 Make the sound effects for: Ship engines,
Combat, Ship damage, Background music for the
separate scenes.
4 Production  Turn work into an animated screenshot
Battle scene, Opening scene and Main Menu +
any elements that I think should be added
afterwards.
 Put animation into Premiere and combine the
elements together with the footage and made
sound effects.
5 Evaluation  Evaluate each section of my work:
Research Planning Time Management
Technical Qualities Aesthetic Qualities
Audience Appeal
 On going evaluation throughout with Production
Reflection

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. Interviewees, Name. (2018) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on
DATE)
2. Gamer Magazine/Website: Author, (Year, Month of Publication). Article
Title, Magazine Titles, Volume(Issue).
3. Game Store: Author, A. (date of publication). Title of document.
Retrieved from http://URL
4. Nintendo Labo. (18/1/18). First Look At Labo. Available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmRhLA3Qzk. Last accessed
19/1/18.
5. Books on Space: Author Surname, Author Initial. (Year Published). Title.
ed. City: Publisher, p.Pages Used.
6. Newspaper/Magazine articles on Space Games: Author, (Year, Month of
Publication). Article Title, Magazine Titles, Volume(Issue).
7. Game: Game Title. Developer, Date