Game Project

Game Project, 6–15 ECTS

Assignment

Design and develop a fully playable game that is at least beta level

The game should be

A murder mystery with 4 to 5 characters (plus the murdered one)
Happens in an isolated island with no possibility to leave before X days
No violence within gameplay

In addition, the groups have different mood that they should have in their game.

The group Tails’ adjectives are:

witty
calm
foggy

The group Heads’ adjectives are:

paranoid
beautiful
hot

The group should publish the game as freeware.

Assessment

Quality of game design
Quality of execution

Note that missed deadlines will reduce grades (unless extension to the deadline is agreed beforehand).

Deliverables

Design Document (deadline 27.10.2010)
Art Bible (deadline 27.10.2010)
Asset List (deadline 27.10.2010)
Main Assets (deadline 8.12.2010)
First Playable (deadline 11.3.2010)
Beta (deadline 6.5.2010)
Learning Diary¹ (deadline 27.5)
Work Amount Report¹ (deadline 27.5)

1. Each one return their own

To Get You Going

Lies and Seductions Unity project (C# code is freely usable in our games as long as the authors are acknowledged). The project includes

Wayfinding (A* with NavMeshes)
Dialogue engine (+ editor)
3rd person camera handling
and some other possible handy code

We also have small budget to buy assets for the games.

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Petri Lankoski, D.Arts, is a Associate Professor in Game Studies at the school of Communication, Media and IT at the Södertörn University, Sweden. His research focuses on game design, game characters, role-playing, and playing experience. Petri has been concentrating on single-player video games but researched also (multi-player) pnp and live-action role-playing games. This blog focuses on his research on games and related things. View more posts