Game Proposal Design Document

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Game Proposal / Design Document
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What is your game about?

• Project Proposal
• The Story
• plot
• introduce main character
• identify his/her problem
• describe the problem or task
• explain how player will succeed in the game

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High Concept

• Vision Thing If you can not boil it down to a
  quick summary, it has no chance of success.
• State in one or two sentences what your game is
  about.
• Most games begin with a single idea

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Gameplay

• Summarize what the player will do when he is
  playing the game.
• Genre Statement
• How it departs from conventions - what is your
  new twist in the genre?
• What does the player do?
• What level of difficulty will you include?

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• What type of interface is incorporated?
• What type of navigation will you give the player?
• Will you have AI programs? What do they do?
• What sort of tools will you give the players?
• What sort of setting is it?
• What is the plot?
• What is the ending?

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Features

• List major selling points of your game
• Identify the technical advancements

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Concept Art

• Ideas of what it is going to look like
• Visual Reference Library
• collected from the internet, (example Bond
  carries a Rolex watch that allows for GPS
  wireless internet using voice activation - show
  picture of Rolex watch, write a description of
  why it is more than just a watch)

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Technical Design

• How does the game get from words on the page to a
  game platform?

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Target Market

• Who are you developing the game for?
• Niche market or specialized genre?
• Mass market?
• Kids?
• Sports fans?

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Hardware Platform?
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Competitive Analysis

• What games have come out in this genre?
• How did they do?
• How will yours be better or worse?

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Risk Analysis

• What do you think could prevent you from getting
  a game like this off the ground?
• How would you minimize risk?

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Summary

• Why is this going to be a great game?