Planning Your Game or Sim

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Topic Summary: The Design Plan is the blueprint for building your game. Planning is crucial to all great creative projects – from skyscrapers to movies to video games. Before anyone ever picks up a hammer, camera or computer mouse, they need a clear written plan explaining WHAT to make and HOW.

In this topic you will create a detailed Game Design Plan that includes:

A GAME PITCH that explains and ‘sells’ your game idea
A SCENE-BY-SCENE DESIGN PLAN that helps you work out the details of your game and create a list of all the assets (images, sounds and other game pieces) that you will need to make for it.

Topic Assignments

Create a DESIGN PLAN

Copy the content from this Design Plan Template to an new wiki page, then fill in the details for YOUR game. Work as a team to decide on and describe all the details of the game.

Understand and Assign TEAM ROLES

After you’ve created a Design Plan that lists WHAT you are building, the next step is to figure out WHO will create each part of the game.

Learn about Team Roles here and decide who on your team will take on each role.
Discuss what will each person will do on your team to help make the game.
Write down the team member names and roles on your Team page.
Assign someone to make each part of the game included on the Design Plan template.

Create a TIMELINE

The final planning step for your game is to decide WHEN each part must be done.

Decide on dates when each part of the game must be done and add those dates to the Design Plan template.
Each team member should update the plan when they have finished an item that was assigned to them.