MA INDIE GAMES DESIGN BLOG

The final two weeks of the module were filled up with with discussions and meetings to finalise the pitch content and record our...

Week 9 involved making plenty of changes following the weekly team meeting. During the meeting, we discussed the lack of story and...

Week 8 was another busy week for the team, with everyone working on delegated tasks focusing within their own disciplines. Despite this,...

Week 7 began the first of three development sprints with aim of having a fully working prototype by the end. As part of this cycle I...

Week six was all about the practice pitch, with last minute preparations and discussions being had within the team. We would be...

I started the week by drafting the Games Design Document – using a similar format from the one used in module 720 , so that it could be...

Week 4's activities and resources were around planning and coordinating a pitch, as in week in week 6 we will be pitching our product...

Week 2 was all about the rapid ideation of our artefact following on from the formation of the team. We started by selecting a name for...

This week was the beginning of the Co-Creative Design & Development Practice module. For this module we will be required to work in...

Week three's activities and resources were based around Lencioni’s (2002) 5 disfunctions of a team, behaviours and communication. Bruce...

In this video I showcase my game prototype 'A Scarecrow's Life' and explain a little bit of my thought process:

Week 10's challenge was all about running a QA test and playtest for my game. To do this I would need to test what I had completed of so...

For Week 9's challenge we had to complete a first pass of a sound design document for our game. To do this, I wrote down all of the...

Week 8's resources and challenge activity was based around level design. We were tasked to design the levels, environments, missions and...

For week 7's challenge, we had to create at least two key animations for our game project, and integrate them into our game engine. As...

For week 5, the challenge activity is all about Art Direction. Good art direction is one of the keys to successful indie game...

In week 4, we have been tasked to explore Narrative design, how stories can be told through video games and the techniques that can be...

This week is programming week, and the challenge activity is to create an interactive ‘grey box’ prototype. Week 3 is all about...

For Week 2’s Challenge Activity, I used the game design principles outlined in the reading materials to produce a proposal for an indie...