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The brief The year is 2195 and the human race now lives in subterranean cities, after the Middle Era Wars. Police are hunting a renegade government official who has stolen plans for a new super-weapon. As a master of disguise, learnt from the alien Chentan race, the renegade is hiding somewhere in the city of Amerath. The police have had to contend with many instances of mistaken identity in their hunt. The Universe is in grave peril. Can you help the police to apprehend the renegade before he sells the plans to the dreaded Volkodans?

Making Key Points… It’s the future Police are after someone Someone has stolen weapon plans They are a master of disguise, learnt by aliens They are hiding in an underground city Can you help police catch them!

Word Fill  Our games are going to be set in the . We need to help the catch someone who has stolen plans for a super . This person who has stolen the plans is a of , so will be very hard to find. They have learnt this from . They are hiding somewhere in a . People now live because of an awful war.   Police Future Weapon Master of Disguise Aliens City Underground

What's NEXT Create a folder called DA204SPB Within that folder – have another 2 folders called: PRODUCTS EVIDENCE

FROM the criteria “You must produce a set of designs for your game that are detailed enough for others to visualise the finished product”

DESIGNS What characters would you have ? Using a design template complete your designs for your characters

Name: Design Sheet Character Name: Role:

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What is the game ? __________________________________________ What is the purpose of the game _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How do you lose? ______________________________________________________ What are the collectables? ______________________________________________________ How do you win? ______________________________________________________

P:\Curriculum\ICT\CIDA\Unit 0\Tracing in Adobe What’s next To ensure we can use our sprites we have designed we need to move our paper designs into computer using the software FLASH. There is a help sheet to support. P:\Curriculum\ICT\CIDA\Unit 0\Tracing in Adobe All characters need to be completed and saved into the EVIDENCE FOLDER. These will then be used in SCRATCH to create our game.

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Mood board “An arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, music etc. intended to help your game creation” Your Task: Create your mood board for your game. Use PowerPoint to collate all your ideas and thoughts.

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Research games You need to research 3 different styles of games and complete the table of information about these. Use the example to support: Game: ISOBALL What you have to do : Use the blocks, arrows, ramps, and bridges that are provided in the area at the bottom to build a track for the ball to get to the hole without falling and breaking. Click on a piece in the bottom area and click on a place to place it. Click on a piece repeatedly in the bottom area to rotate it. Age Range: 8+ Improvements: Sound for completion of level. More clear points High score board Good Points : Use of logic to complete tasks Multi level Instructions to help and support

WHERE SHOULD I BE ? In your folder – DA204SPB – EVIDENCE. You should have the following: Mood board Research on Games Characters in FLASH

Converting in PNG Open up your character you have designed in FLASH. Select FILE ---- EXPORT--- EXPORT IMAGE Call the character a suitable name Select PNG from the drop down menu

what's NEXT Copy and paste your web address for your assets table!!! In the next few lessons we are going to be starting our creation in Scratch. Before we can start we need to complete a background for our game. Find a background from a search engine and save it in your folder- EVIDENCE Remember to call it a sensible name e.g background_1 Copy and paste your web address for your assets table!!!

Asset table Save this as : Asset table in your evidence folder!!! Where found P/S* Description of asset Details of editing(how assets have been developed to make them suitable) Where it is used RobCop http://img02.deviantart.net/0d59/i/2010/189/6/c/pchat___chibi_robocop_by_guyverc.jpg P A picture of a Robot Cop Edited the robot to make it different including colour and detail This will be the police style cop in the game Save this as : Asset table in your evidence folder!!!

Proposal Overview Background story – What is the background story that leads to the start of your game ? The story of the game is…. Audience – Who is the intended audience of your game? My intended audience for my game is ….. Purpose/objective- What is the objectives of your game ? What players have to do to complete the game ? In my game the player will need to… PEGI rating – What will the PEGI rating be ? The PEGI rating of my game is….

Background Story-What is the background story that leads to the start of your game ? The story of the game is…. Audience - Who is the intended audience of your game? My intended audience for my game is ... Purpose/Objective- What is the objectives of your game ? What players have to do to complete the game ? In my game the player will need to… PEGI Rating - What will the PEGI rating be ? The PEGI rating of my game is….

P:\Curriculum\ICT\CIDA\Unit 4- Past, Present , Future\Lesson 1 Creating our game Using the help sheet provided: P:\Curriculum\ICT\CIDA\Unit 4- Past, Present , Future\Lesson 1 Create your introduction screen to the game. Remember to think about the brief!! Use the video tutorials to support your work!!

Story board Make your own version