Projects: Week 8

Projects: Week 8 First Playable

At this stage, you should have a 1st playable version of your game –
Once the prototype is good, the next logical step is called the First Playable. It’s obviously the first playable version of the game. Not really an alpha yet, because not complete enough, but not a prototype, because it is cleaner and more complete. The first playable version aims to show the real guts of the game more than the sole concept. The first playable doesn’t offer the complete flow of the game: the main menu is often missing, there is no real player ranking, no real story… but the main elements are here and playable.
Also, one of the most visible differences between the first playable and the prototype is about art. While it’s normal to use placeholders and ugly assets in the prototype, everything should be replaced by prettier assets, even if not final.
Time. You should budget approximately 2 hours for this assignment. Record your thoughts and ideas and at least one image in a blog post as you work.

Your Blog Post

Here are some items that you will definitely want to have in your post:

    • Prototype
    • Discussion on what’s working and what your finding difficult
    • How your meeting you targets set in your plan 
    • Image(s). Take at least one screenshot from your developing game,  As always, include image information.
    • Post Title. Include the phrase “first playable” somewhere in the post title.
    • Post Labels. Label the post with: Week 8, Project.

And, as always, be sure to spellcheck and proofread.

SEND ME AN EMAIL

As I explained last week, the Project is the only assignment each week that you will turn in by email,  So, please copy-and-paste the information in the blue box here into an email that you send me, and use this subject line: First playable

DECLARATION

Then you can do the Declaration in Moodle; the Declaration there just says “I have sent in the email.” Each week for the project it will work just like this: you will send me an email that lets me know you are done with the assignment, and then after you send me the email, you will do the Declaration.

Paste this into the email you send me: 
I have written a blog post with research about a project topic.
PROTOTYPE 
DISCUSSION what’s working and what your finding difficult
IMAGE(S). I included at least one image with image information (caption and link).
POST TITLE: The phrase “First playable” appears in the post title,
POST LABELS: I used two labels — Project, Week 8 — separated by a comma.
PROOFREADING: I used a spellchecker, and I proofread my post.
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