
Goal
- Create a game
- The game should be well planned, show what you have learned (effective use of game design), and be very polished
21st Century Skills
- Pick one 21st Century Leadership Skill from each of the four sections linked below
- Demonstrate these four skills during this project
- Gather evidence of these skills
- Include your evidence in your (NAME of GAME) Game Production blog post
Pitch
- Present developed idea and GDD to teacher for approval
Product
- A blog post with an embedded game link or a video of gameplay from YouTube
- Journal Entries for the pre-production, production, and post-production stages of one of the production team roles listed below
Examples
- Pitch Project Examples
Steps
- Week 1
- Hour 1 – Create Blog Post and Add Headings, Fill in…
- Review the Game Production Project Feedback Form (PDF)
- Create a blog post titled (NAME of GAME) Production Project
- Copy and paste headings from the Production Project TEMPLATE
- (Optional for Covid) Fill in the Teamwork Form PDF’s
- Game Teams (PDF)
- Game Team Presentation Form (PDF)
- Task Time Team Form (PDF)
- Research your role
- Find role a model(s)
- Study their work
- Find at least one tutorial, embed it, follow it, and take notes
- Hours 2-5 – Begin Pre-production
- Planning and preparation
- Research ideas
- Create a Game Plan
- Create designs, storyboards, a list of coding needed, etc.
- Prepare tools; equipment,
- Organize talent and props
- Learn script
- Planning and preparation
- Hour 1 – Create Blog Post and Add Headings, Fill in…
- Week 2
- Hours 6-10 – Begin Production
- Code
- Use the equipment to capture images and sound
- Gather supporting material
- Foley sound effects
- Images
- Adapt the game plan, as needed
- Organize files
- Hours 6-10 – Begin Production
- Week 3
- Hours 11-15 – Begin Post-production
- Edit game
- Edit/add sound
- Recode, as necessary
- Add titles and credits
- Publish video of gameplay to YouTube
- Hours 11-15 – Begin Post-production
- Week 4
- Hour 16 – Second to Last Day
- Publish game
- Embed a video of gameplay into blog post under the Game heading
- Finish the Summary and What I Learned and Problems I Solved sections of blog post
- Publish game
- Hour 17 – Watch the gameplay
- Hours 18-20 – Receive feedback and finish to blog post
- Hour 16 – Second to Last Day
Tools
- Unity
- Construct 3
- Photoshop
- GIMP
- Illustrator
- Inkscape
- YouTube
- Flickr
- GarageBand
- Audacity
- SoundCloud
- freeplaymusic.com
- filmsound.org/sound-effects/libraries.htm
Resources
- Unity Learn
- Audio for Games with GarageBand
- Free online sound sources with Search.CreativeCommons.org
Feedback Form
- Game Production Project Feedback Form (PDF)