CS/INFO 4152: Advanced Topics in Computer Game Development

ENGRC Discussion 2
Concept Workshop

Today's discussion is to help you complete the concept document, which is due this week. As we have mentioned in class, the concept document for this course is a little different than the one for 3152. We want you to make a slide presentation that covers the highlights of your game. It should be created as if you were going to do an oral presentation for your game (though you are not doing any oral presentation beyond what you already did for the pitch session).

If you are in doubt, the instructions page has a lot of examples for what we are looking for in this document. We suggest that you look at them.


Competitive Analysis

At the start of class, Traci will talk a little bit about competitive analysis, which is one of the new features in 4152. In 3152, the discussion about the competition was very minimal. However, if you are planning on a commercial release or submitting to a festival, it is something that you need to take more seriously.

The worksheet above is intended to give you direction for this discussion section. However, we are not expecting you to fill it out and submit it. We are expecting you to integrate your results into the concept document.

If there is time at the end of section, each group will be asked to present their result to the rest of the class. You will then receive some short feedback from Traci the rest of the class to help you in your submission this weekend.