Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research, create and document the game concept
- Research, identify and describe the target market for the game
- Research, identify and describe the game genre and its working title
- Identify a suitable game platform
- Identify a suitable game engine
- Prepare the initial concept art to establish the look, and feel, of the characters, environment and game play
- Create and document the specifications for game design
- Create, and document, the technical specifications for the game
- Determine game mechanics
- Finalise the platform, game engine and operating system
- Specify the source and purpose of the code to be used, including level-specific code
- Determine the game physics and artificial intelligence
- Determine the sound engineering requirements
- Determine the procedures needed to test the game prototype
- Collate the game design document