Creating a small concept document was the task of this assignment. The concept document must have been a game design idea for a game of your creation based on an 80's cartoon. The cartoon I was assigned was Jem, a very pink and vibrant cartoon with a musical basis.
The difficult part of this assignment was coming up with how to change the show into a game. That is why I tried to design a game which fitted to the original show as closely as possible. After looking at other documents and my own I seem to notice that visual appeal is important for a design document. So, later I will add many more images from various points in the show to illustrate my points. I'll also likely remove mentioning on how the controls will work in favour of an image showing them instead.
From this assignment I learned that in games design you might not work with any kind of interlectual property you particularly like and so that you should not limit your ideas to just what you want to do, otherwise you could miss out some good oppertunities.
Imagery is also essential. It's best to use an image where possible instrad of text. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I'm trying to remove a lot of text and replace it with images. The updated version of the document should be available soon.
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