Design Specification!

During this morning, I made a start and created the introduction and explained some gaming genres with examples. I made a lot of progress and I have decided to finish this at home. 

At the start of the day, "Zoetic Zoe" split us into groups of two to three's and we had to come up with what we need to have before we start creating our games on GameMaker. Me, Ben R, and Adam M stated we need scripting. This was to get us thinking for assignment 2 of this unit.

Next, "Zoetic Zoe" discussed about the design specification for our games. This is the beginning of the second assignment as planning and showing evidence is required before we make our games.

The design specification consists of:

• Storyline (Where set, what you have to do).
• Genre.
• Platform.
• Assets.
• Controls.
• Sound Effects/Music.
• Level Descriptions.
• Game Player Descriptions.

She also mentioned other factors which we will cover on Monday, these are: action list, pseudocode, graphics, storyboards, list of data types, and script. After the explanations, I continued my storyboard and managed to complete it - giving me my basic overview of my game (which can be altered or changed if a new idea comes to mind). I then moved onto creating the game cover, essentially I copied the design cover I made from U30 with "Amazing Adam" and altered it by adding text for which it will become the main menu. Immediately after, I had added a new asset in my storyboard "spikes", so I spent several minutes using the platform asset to measure the size of the spikes. I exported this as a .JPEG and I will eventually re-size this to fit into the game, into a .PNG format.

Moving on, I then inked my storyboard in pen and erased all the pencil marks, allowing "Zoetic Zoe" to photocopy this for me which I have added into my design specification. I also used this as an example to show others how I roughly laid out my storyboard. It consists of the main menu, instructions, abouts, and some levels/rooms. Each of them are annotated in the narration box.

Eventually, "Zoetic Zoe" resent me U1A1, and so I made the following changes she required, this will allow me to achieve P3 as all I needed was to add an important sentence. During the end of the day, I resubmitted to "Zoetic Zoe" and planned all the tasks I need to do at home. Overall, today I was a very focusing day. I got a lot done but there are still so much more to do, it starts becoming confusing and I will eventually get confused too. The reason for my early departure today is due to parents eve, hope it all goes good for the others.

Have a good Friday!