The Victorian Games & Apps Challenge Summary and Design Brief (Powerpoint)

Get thinking: What is the problem, issue or challenge you want to take on?  How is your game or app going to increase awareness, provide strategies, create empathy or make things better for someone or something?   Who do you want to meet your challenge? Who is your audience? Can you come up with a plan and a design? Can you pitch and communicate your idea?    The Task – Design, Plan, Create and Submit to industry leaders at Microsoft    You will need to create your Design Brief with all of your planning, ideas and evidence. Use this PowerPoint to pull it all together and your teacher will submit one completed Design Brief per group. Create the beginnings of a game or an app (coding). It may be the first stage of a game or even a demo which introduces the characters, and the idea of the game or app. The Judges need to see that you/your group:    Used the tools provided to present your computational thinking, coding or development  Has presented evidence of your thinking, reviews and improvements you made to your original idea, collaboration and utilisation of your skills and talents.   Created something that met your brief – see the rubrics on the site section

2 XBOX One consoles for the winning school in each category The Tools  The tools you have available to use for this competition are:   Touch Develop   Unity   Visual Studio Minecraft Education to create apps and games  You can also use additional tools e.g. Scratch and others listed on the tools page http://gac.global2.vic.edu.au/tools-home/tools/ The prizes  2 XBOX One consoles for the winning school in each category Year 4, 5 & 6, Year 7 & 8 and Year 9 & 10 

This process is open to review and modification at every stage. The Design Process    Judges will consider ALL of the planning brief not just the final product. See Rubrics: http://gac.global2.vic.edu.au/evaluation-criteria/ Use the Design Process to help you stay on track You will need to: Investigate Design Conference Produce Analyse Evaluate This process is open to review and modification at every stage.  

Design Brief Enter Your Group Members’ first names  The Design Brief is where you should start thinking about and documenting all your ideas, inspiration and planning. Project Description What real world problem or challenge your game or app is going to solve or engage with. As an individual or group, you need to answer three key questions:   What is the problem/challenge you are trying to solve? What do you want your Game or App to do, and what features might it include? Who might benefit from your game or app? When working through the design technology process it's important to consider multiple options or design. Please ensure you develop two detailed and annotated designs for your product.  

Design 1 Add space for your designs as necessary. This can include words, diagrams, images and symbols. These should give the judges some idea of the process or function of your App or Game.

Design 2 Add slides for your designs as necessary. These can include words, diagrams, images and symbols. This should give the judges some idea of the process or function of your App or Game. It will need to be different from Design 1 in its entirety or at some stage of the process

Design Scrapbook Use this section to keep all your investigation materials such as website links, videos, screen clippings, ideas, references and other resources. Add slides as you need them. Help build your evidence   Research around: the issue possible solutions existing games or apps – What is your competition? Inspiration for design, look and feel Consider the visual elements of a game such as characters, scenery, objects, vehicles, surface textures, clothing, etc Which tool best suits your purpose?

What do you need to know? In order to build this game or App what will you need to know and be able to do? Create a list of skills and knowledge you will need to call upon or learn. Add slides and space as you need. Include website links, videos, tutorials, ideas, references and other resources What skills do you and your group currently have? Where are the gaps? What do you need to learn? Where can you get help? What help was useful?

Conference You must conference your two designs with your teacher and if possible your peers.     It is important for you to obtain feedback as well as reflect on their ideas about your designs!  

Teacher conference    Part of the design technology process is the importance of review and feedback about your product designs. Using the boxes below to document this process.  Teacher Comments  How can we make this product even better than it currently is? List some of the feedback provided by your teacher(s)    Our Reflection  As a result of your conference what changes to your design will you consider? 

Peer conference (Optional but valuable)    Part of the design technology process is the importance of review and feedback about your product designs. Using the boxes below to document this process.  Teacher Comments  How can we make this product even better than it currently is? List some of the feedback provided by your peer(s)    Our Reflection  As a result of your conference what changes to your design will you consider? 

Produce  Use all of the evidence you have gathered to complete the pages below as part of your final product and submission requirements: Add slides as required   What is your product? What does it do? One paragraph – “The elevator pitch” What does it look and feel like? Create the visual elements of your game or App: Design your characters, scenery, objects, vehicles, surface textures, clothing, etc. Create a concept art and storyboard, which helps communicate the proposed visual elements during pre-production Making it work Present evidence of your coding. This could be raw code (provide support for the judges if necessary), link to your functioning code or App or screen dumps of the code.

Your Pitch Here is your opportunity to SELL your idea! A pitch is a presentation or persuasive piece that promotes your solution. The format of this pitch could be (and not limited to): A video presentation (using www.officemix.com) A blog post (using http://global2.vic.edu.au) A website A video demo of the App or Game with set of instructions A radio/TV commercial Packaging for your Game or App App store profile A digital presentation using www.sway.com (free) My Pitch: Share your pitch below, this could include URL link.

Your Analysis or Self Evaluation It's time to reflect on your final product. Complete the PMI chart about your Game or App. Throughout the production stage, did you make any changes to your design? If so list the change and the reason you need to make this change... Positives Minuses Interesting Change Made Reason For change Evaluate See Rubrics http://gac.global2.vic.edu.au/evaluation-criteria/

Evaluation Criteria Use this as a resource for Teacher, Peer and self evaluation:    Relevance of the problem  How well is the problem explained and defined?  Are the influences and origins of the problem well investigated and understood?  Does the game or app address the problem? If so, how creative is the solution?  Implementation of the Idea  How well was the user experience considered?  How much thought was given to the design of the game or app?  How creative is the game or app? How original is it?  Demonstrated Excellence of Coding and Programming Skills  How well were the software development tools used?  To what extent did the game or app demonstrate computational thinking?  Documented your work  To what extent has the Design Portfolio been completed by the group or student?  How well has the product been communicated through The Pitch?

Submit Your teacher must upload your completed (One per group) PowerPoint Presentation to: http://gac.global2.vic.edu.au/submit/ If you/your group is working on a web space/site it is important that all the links are in this presentation OR that all the information in this design brief is included in the website/ space You would then submit a URL.