initial+proposal

My objective for this project is to learn more about the field of game design and to increase any programming skills I have so far. I also plan to learn things such as “what makes a game fun”.

I’m motivated to do this project because I have always had a lot of interest in videogame design since I was young so I think that this topic would keep me interested while at the same time teaching me many new things about videogames.

Some of the sources that I plan to use include videogame reviews. The videogame reviews will help me because they will provide me with information on what do a majority of people like about a videogame and what aspects of a game usually annoy people. Another type of source that I plan to use are videogame creation guides, this will tell me things such as what are key things that are needed in a certain style of game and point out key differences between types of games such as action RPG, and RPG

What I plan to do to get this project done is to ask a game design expert on his/her thoughts on videogames, do a lot of research on videogame design and its history, and by the end design a few basic (but different styled) games.

Some of the problems that I may encounter while working on this project is that some people have different visions of what makes a videogame “fun” so I may have to design more then one game in order to appeal to more people. Another problem that I may have during this project is that I’m probably going to have to learn some new code in order to design the many types of games.

My mentor is going to help me with my project by keeping me on track and remind what I need to do and then it needs to be done because I would forget or procrastinate otherwise.

By mid November I expect to have all of the basic