KIT109 Games Fundamentals Assignment 2 — Game Concept Document Weighting: 5% Due Time/Date: 11:55pm Friday 30th of August (Week 7) Aims of the Assignment The purpose of this assignment is to give you experience creating design concept documents for a simple video game. It addresses the following criteria from the unit handout: • Students should be ICT professionals with the abilities and skills to: o design, identify required techniques, and apply knowledge of development principles and technical skills to develop games • Students should acquire attitudes needed by an ICT professional to: o communicate effectively at a professional level Assignment Requirements The assignment is to develop a game concept and present that concept via a Game Concept Document. The concept you come up with will be implemented for the rest of semester and will form the basis of your work for Assignments 4 and 5. This is an individual assignment. Report Requirements The report has the following requirements: • It must be 2–4 pages in length (1 page maximum for title, concept statement, and overview, 1–3 pages for the treatment and concept art). • It needs to be submitted electronically as both a PDF file and a Word (or equivalent) file. The concept document should address the following areas: • Overview, including: o The working title. o The concept statement. o Genre or category of game. o Concept creation process/area (e.g. subtractive design, anti-game, mashup, etc.) and influences. o Audience and competitive analysis. • Game treatment and concept art. Referencing It is expected that you will need to reference pre-existing games or any images from external sources (e.g. for influences or concept art). Any suitable referencing style is acceptable for this assignment, but it must at least be consistently and correctly applied throughout your document. Additionally, all images in your report should be captioned and referred to somewhere in the text – i.e. they should always support what the text is saying and be relevant. See here for the University’s guide to referencing here: http://www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/staff_resources.html. Assignment Submission Two files must be submitted before 11:55pm Friday 30th of August (Week 7): • The report files (PDF and Word/equivalent copies), to be submitted electronically. • A signed individual assignment coversheet (available from the EICT website: http://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0006/161376/AssignmentCover.doc) These files should be submitted through MyLO only. Student Name: Working Title: Assignment 2 — Game Concept Document Individual Assignment (5%) criteria HD DN CR PP NN In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you: ILO1 Design and specify requirements of games Overview (40%) specified the game’s working title failed to specify the game’s working title provided a concise and interesting concept statement provided a concise concept statement failed provide a concise concept statement identified genre(s) and thoroughly explained reasoning identified genre(s) and partially explained reasoning identified (plausible) genre(s) failed to identified genre(s) provided detailed explanation of how the game concept was developed with influences identified and relevant examples provided provided detailed explanation of how the game concept was developed with influences identified provided detailed explanation of how the game concept was developed provided basic explanation of how the game concept was developed with influences identified failed to describe how the game concept was developed provided a detailed description of the target audience and thoroughly justified why they would be interested in the game concept provided a detailed description of the target audience and somewhat justified why they would be interested in your game concept provided a detailed description of the target audience provided a basic description of the target audience failed to provide an adequate description of the target audience Treatment (40%) provided an exciting treatment and clearly highlighted compelling features of game concept provided an exciting treatment and highlighted compelling features of game concept provided an exciting treatment provided a basic treatment of game concept failed to provide an adequate description of the game concept selected concept art was appropriate, consistent, and provided a clear idea of the targeted style selected concept art was appropriate and consistent selected concept art was appropriate provided concept art failed to provide adequate concept art ILO1 Design and specify requirements of games General Style (20%) wrote very well and work was easily understandable wrote well and work was easily understandable Wrote well and work was understandable wrote adequately wrote poorly had no spelling and/or grammatical errors had some spelling and/or grammatical errors had many spelling and/or grammatical errors cited references where appropriate in a consistent style cited references where appropriate failed to cite references where appropriate all included images are relevant, captioned, and referred to in the text some included images are relevant, captioned, and referred to in the text images are irrelevant, poorly captioned, and/or not referred to in the text Comments Grade
