Video Games

1. TASK: Requirements of the brief

Brief: You're tasked with making a level of Pitfall

What do you need to consider?

Do I need to code the game and design the assets?

What elements will I be designing?

What is the game environment like?

Target Audience

Deadline/Time frame

I need to consider the game Pitfall and work out what style of game it is, what it is played on etc.

How is an interactive project different than an audio-visual project?

It requires something from you, it is not just watching content with audio. An example of this is an app which requires input.

What research do I need to do?

I need to research:

• Gameplay
• Software
• Characters
• Controls
• Obstacles

Gameplay

Having played ten minutes of the game pitfall, I learnt that the gameplay is very simple. The easiest way to describe it is you are making a character run down an obstacle course but they have to hit the least obstacles possible. The aim is to have the highest point score at the end and you lose points by hitting obstacles or losing a life.

Characters

In Pitfall there is not many characters. You can play as one main character and that is it.