Project name: Minor Project: Game

Subject: ITS

Project Code: 10MiP

Due Date:

Teacher: Mr Hoey
 The Design – Develop – Evaluate Process

Project Development Model

Phase Brief description of what the phase encompasses

Documentation
Clarification of the issue being examined involving clear
Identification
statements of problem identification, rationale and aims.
Description of the type of outcome required, including the
Design

Specification nature of inputs and outputs, hardware and software

requirements and audience, as appropriate.

Documentation of all phases of the project, together with

Planning the details of the solution using a recognised
Design
methodology.
Develop

Implementation Implementing the design with the chosen software.

manuals (user and/or technical)

Testing for accuracy by checking for logical and syntactical
Testing
errors.
Evaluate

Making judgments about the quality of the product, and

Evaluation the process of development including time-management
issues.

Final Documentation Checklist

Included
Phase Brief description of documentation in each phase
(Y/N)
• Title Page
Context • Company Profile, Disaster Recovery Plan, Team
Member Profiles
Identification • Pre-design Planning Checklist
• Design Brief – including background, outcome
Specification required, target audience, details/specifications, and
Design

hardware/software required.
• Original sketches and design notes
Design • Storyboards
• Navigational Structure/Concept Maps
Develop

Implementatio • Weekly Work Log

n,
Testing • Individual Work Log

• Project Evaluation – information about the process

Evaluate

of development, and quality of the product

Evaluation
• Team / Individual Evaluation

Appendices
Extras

Other • Screen Prints Of Project *

Materials to • Annotated Bibliography / Bibliography
demonstrate • Client Contract *
project
• Design Brief Form
planning and
• Minutes Of Meetings
proof of
authorship • Signed Authorship Form *
• Copies of correspondence (emails etc.)
• Project Timeline (Gantt)
 Epic Nerd Designs
254 Lapwings Cresent
North Lakes, QLD, 4509

Phone: 07 3886 4562

Fax: 07 3165 5649

www.epicnerd-designs.com

Designer: Josh Missen

Client: Mr Hoey

Contact Person: Mr Hoey

Contact Email: mhoey8@gmail.com

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Company Profile

Epic Nerd is a multimedia design based company. We create all kinds of multi media based
products such as graphics designs, logo designs, typography, photo edits, Animation,
Interactive Animation, Gaming and a few more.

The staff at Epic Nerd are very experienced in what they do. They all have there own talents
and parts of the company which they contribute to. They are hard working and will get the job
one as quick as possible t the best of their ability.

Prior projects include:

• Interactive Comic
• Flash Games
• Photo Edits
• Web Designs
• Graphic Designs
• Logo Designs

Disaster Recover Plan

Epic Nerd Designs understands that computers and data can, and do, at times fail. However,
we have in place a strict disaster recovery policy which gives the client peace of mind that
their project will be completed on time, without any loss of data. The recovery plan involves
us making 3 backups of our product which we have created for you. We will instantly back up
on our server and a backup server also on completion we instantly back up your files created
on a disc which is kept for 3 months.

On completion of the project the files are given to a client through email, mail via CD or USB,
or face to face (CD or USB can be picked up at our office. Epic Nerd also retains a copy of all
project files for 3 months should the client lose their copies; after this time the files will be
deleted and/or destroyed unless an extended storage time is purchased.
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Pre-Design Planning Checklist

1. The purpose of the project is: 2. The target audience of the product is:
a) to sell a) a Home/Personal user
b) to inform b) a Business user
c) to entertain c) an Educational user
d) other: _______________________ d) some other group : _________________

3. The finished product will: 4. Design documents needed will be:

a) contain images a) sketches
b) be strictly topographic b) design notes
c) contain cartoons, animation, illustration c) a CMAP
d) contain a combination of the above d) storyboards

5. The finished project will be distributed: 6. The project is a:

a) on CD/DVD a) a practical task
b) on the Internet b) an oral task
c) on a local network c) a written task
d) other: __________________ d) a minor/major project

7. The storage space for the project files is: 8. The required software is:
a) sufficient a) available for use
b) not sufficient b) not available for use

9. The necessary hardware is: 10. The project will be:

a) available for use a) a completely new design
b) not available for use b) an adaptation of an existing design

11. In terms of completing the required task I feel I have:

a) sufficient knowledge of the software to achieve success
b) insufficient knowledge of the software to achieve success
c) a great deal of knowledge of the software and will achieve success

12. The project deadline is:

a) realistic – I will most likely finish the project by the desired due date
b) unrealistic – I will most likely not finish the project by the desired due date
c) too easy – I will definitely finish the project by the desired date
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Design Brief

BACKGROUND

North Lakes State College is a proud and innovative college that offers high quality education
for both boys and girls from the Preparatory school year through to Year 12.

The College is defined by a nurturing literacy and numeracy focused Prep and Junior School,
a challenging and developmentally appropriate Middle School and an innovative community
based, multiple pathway Urban Learning Senior School.

The school has an educational orientation designed for the maximisation of learning
outcomes deemed of value for the future by the community and by Education Queensland.

OUTCOME REQUIRED:
• Epic Nerd Designs has been contracted by the school to create a website re-design
for an existing website.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
• Home users
• Business users

DETAILS/SPECIFICATIONS:
• Flash Based Game
• Top Down Shooter
• Aim to be a extremely fun and playable game, with minimal glitches and good design

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIRED:
• Flash
• MS Word
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Weekly Work Log

Major
Week Major Activity Problems Encountered Planning
Accomplishments
What, if any, problems
What needs to be done
arose?
next?
How were they handled?

I got multiple weapons Had a few problems with

designed to their full ability tracing with the tablet at
Got many More weapons and our main
and ready to be first. Once i got the hang of
1 weapons. Traced character needs to be
implemented in the game it it was quite easy to do.
with a tablet. designed soon.
play whenever Dominic The hardest weapon to do
needs them. was the chainsaw.
All weapons are now Had a few problems with
basically complete (bar 1 correct shading and line
Most weapons now Character to be designed
2 or 2) and we have no work but was easily fixed
complete. next week.
started to get our character with tablet corrections and
designed line sizing.
Animating was hard but
Character and
Character and enemy eventually handled with time More enemies and possibly
3 enemy designed
designed and animated and use of the onion skin a few level backgrounds.
and animated
feature on flash

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Individual Work Log

This log is to document your progress throughout the project. Each day you have ITS you
should fill in the details of the tasks accomplished in the log below – either for the last five
minutes of class or at home. A completed log must be submitted as part of the project.

Approximate
Date Work Undertaken (Including Meetings and Outcomes)
Time Spent
13/04/10 We began planning our weapons and characters, with around 15 weapons 1hr 30 mins
planned and a story line + specifications thought out we are ready to start
designing the weapons of the game first.
14/04/10 I have designed a few weapons using the line tool, very basically because i 1hr 30 mins
have planned on using a tablet to make them look nice and give them a more
cartoon/flash based look. So far I have a spear and fight club soap designed,
although the designs are very basic due to further altercations being made.
16/04/10 I now have a tablet and traced both my previous weapons created last 1hr 30 mins
lesson. I also talked to Lachlan about his designs and how he should do the
main designs and I should draw over them with the tablet because he seems
to be better at detailing and designing the weapons whereas i seem to be
better at drawing them.
20/04/10 I traced a few more of Lachlan’s weapons, while also designing and creating 1hr 30 mins
a chainsaw and samurai sword myself. The chainsaw was difficialut to make
and even though it is not correctly positioned for a top down game we
decided that it would work best for the enjoyment of the user of the game if
they could see the chainsaw this way (side on)
21/04/10 I traced a few more of Lachlan’s weapons with the tablet, while designing a 1hr 30 mins
few more of my own. There were a few problems encountered with the
weapons which were mainly due to hard to trace lines and such. But were
resolved with some thinner lines used.
24/04/10 I traced one of Lachlan’s weapons, and touched up my old ones with some 1hr 30 mins
shading and made sure they looked ok at their original sizes for the game.

27/04/10 Lachlan designed a character this lesson and I traced it with the tablet, it 1hr 30 mins
looks very well done and now needs to be animated for a walking cycle for
game play. Only had trouble with tracing the hair of the character but I’m
going to fix that next lesson.
28/04/10 I fixed up our character so it now has a centre point, and gave it a walk cycle 1hr 30 mins
for every direction he can go. I had many problems with getting it lined up on
every frame, so i had to use the onion skin feature and that resolved the
problem. I also partly designed and drew an enemy with Lachlan and got it
doing a similar walk cycle to the main character.
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PROJECT EVALUATION

PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT

[Summarise the design process – use your individual and weekly logs to fill this in. Talk
especially about the problems you encountered, how you resolved them, and how you dealt
with time-management]

QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT

The completed product…

Improvements I would have liked to have made, if time allowed, would be to…
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Individual Evaluation

SELF-EVALUATION

What I did well on this project was…

What I should have done better was…

If I had to grade my work on this project, I would give myself an [A,B,C,D,E] with respect to
the amount of effort I personally put into the project.
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Screen Prints of Project

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[insert description of above screen shot] [insert description of above screen shot]
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Client Contract

Date:

Project Name: [01OR]

Client Name: North Lakes State College

Contact Person: [e.g. Mr Hoey]

Phase Name: Client Proposal

Sign Off Title and Items: Design Brief and Client Proposal

This letter signifies your review and approval of the items provided in the Design phase of this
project. This is the final sign-off for these items. Any changes made to these items following
this sign-off may constitute a Change of Scope.

If this is required a Change of Scope letter will be completed outlining the time and costs
associated with the changes. Please sign and date both copies of this letter, keeping one for
your records and returning the second copy to my attention. If you have any questions please
do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

[Signatures Here]

[Team Member(s) Name(s) here]

I ___________________________________ approve the reviewed and revised items, with

no additional changes or revisions.

[Signature Here]

Date: [Date Here]

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Authorship Form

Regarding [project code] – [project name]:

I/We certify that the practical and/or written work represents valid work and that neither this
work, nor any materials with substantially similar content under my/our authorship, has been
taken from other sources without being referenced accordingly.

I/We have seen and confirm the submitted work as my/our own. I/We have participated
sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the contents. The author(s) have made
substantial contributions to the intellectual content of the work and fulfil at least 1 condition for
each of the 3 categories of contributions: i.e. 1) conception and design, 2) development of the
work, 3) evaluation of the work.

I/We absolutely certify that all my/our work has not infringed upon any other person(s) work
without due credit being made.

I/We certify that all material(s) not of our creation that have been used have been properly
acknowledged, either in the programming code or via the Bibliography, and where necessary
written/verbal permission has been obtained.

The author(s) undersigned hereby, while retaining all copyright ownership, give permission to
North Lakes State College to use any materials for school purposes, in the event that such
work is used by North Lakes State College.

Authors' name(s) in order of appearance in the team profile.

1. Signature: Date:

2. Signature: Date:

3. Signature: Date:

4. Signature: Date: