The document provides guidance on using feedback to improve a game design plan in four key areas: client requirements, target audience, equipment, and legal issues. It emphasizes understanding the needs of the client and target audience. The client requires the game to be suitable for 9-11 year olds and include certain features within a 5 minute time limit. Feedback should be used to strengthen the description of how the design will meet client requirements and appeal to different genders. Legal issues around copyright and content ratings must also be considered.

1. Feedback
Lesson 7

2.  Understand needs of client and target audience
 Know legal issues that impact on your work
 Be able to use feedback to improve planning section
Lesson Goals
#feedback
#improve

3. Client Brief
What are the main requirements for this project?
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Understand client/audience needs
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4.  Game Spot have asked you to create a
simple PC game that can be used in
primary schools to encourage more
children to create computer games.
 The game must be suitable for 9 - 11
year olds, both male and female and
include map pieces and props that fit
into one or two key themes.
 Your game must have a clear set of
rules to allow the children playing it to
play and win the game within a 5
minute time limit.
Client Brief
Game Spot
Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work
#feedback
#improve

5.  The game must include these features:
 Single Level Map
 1 or 2 Large Rooms
 A few Small Rooms
 4 Doors (Minimum)
 5 Characters (Minimum)
 1 or 2 Location Themes
 The objectives for the game must be:
 Collect 5 Objects
 Avoid Being Killed
 Good Chance of Winning
Specification
Game Spot
Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work
#feedback
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6.  The four main sections of your plan we will improve today are:
Planning
Client Requirements
Main task, Objectives, Key Features
Target Audience
Age, Gender, Overall Needs
Equipment
Hardware and Software Required
Legal Issues
Copyright, Moral Issues, PEGI Rating
#feedback
#improve
Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work

7.  Your client is the person who has set out your task for you. They
have told you what they want you to plan and create for them.
Client Requirements
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 The key requirements of your client
are set out in the written specification
and you must describe how you will
plan to meet those requirements.
 Your analysis of the requirements is
important for you to show you clearly
understand what you’ve been asked
to create in this project.

8.  Different genders in your audience
will require different things:
 What will appeal to boys?
 What will appeal to girls?
 The young age group you are aiming
your game towards means you will
need to carefully consider the
content of your game.
 Your target audience is the person or group of people that you
are aiming your final product towards.
Target Audience
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9.  The Software you use will include
features such as props & characters
but you could also think about:
 2D/3D Environment
 Ease of Use
 System Requirements
 The role of each item of hardware you need must be explained:
 Monitor
 Keyboard
 Mouse
 Headphones
Equipment
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Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work

10.  When planning the content of any
video game moral issues must be
considered so your game is giving
the right message to it’s players.
 PEGI certification is important in the
games industry and your game must
adhere to a particular set or rules to
fit in with the relevant rating.
Legal Issues
#feedback
#improve
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Use feedback to improve work
 Copyright will have an impact on you in two ways in this project:
 Protecting your own work
 Preventing use of others work

11.  The difference between grade boundaries in this part of the
unit comes down to the level of description used in planning:
Marking
Clear Identification
Describe requirements & audience
Merit
2-11 Marks
Detailed Identification
Explain impact of client & audience needs
Distinction
12-15 Marks
Limited Identification
List requirements & name audience
Pass
1-6 Marks
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Understand client/audience needs
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12.  Use the feedback given on your R092
Game Design document to improve
your plan in the following areas:
 Client Requirements
 Target Audience
 Equipment
 Legal Issues
 You must describe your ideas in each
section as fully as possible.
 Make sure you add a comment to
explain any improvements you make.
Your Task
#feedback
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Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work

13. Keywords
 Feedback
 Improve
 Requirement
 Information on your work that will help
you improve what you have done.
 To make something better by refining or
editing work that has been done.
 Something that is needed or wanted by
your client in the finished product.
#feedback
#improve
Understand client/audience needs
Use feedback to improve work