KIT109 Games Fundamentals
Assignment 2 — Game Concept Document
Weighting: 5%
Due Time/Date: 11:55pm Friday 30th of August (Week 7)
Aims of the Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to give you experience creating design concept documents for a simple video game. It
addresses the following criteria from the unit handout:
• Students should be ICT professionals with the abilities and skills to:
o design, identify required techniques, and apply knowledge of development principles and technical skills
to develop games
• Students should acquire attitudes needed by an ICT professional to:
o communicate effectively at a professional level
Assignment Requirements
The assignment is to develop a game concept and present that concept via a Game Concept Document. The concept you
come up with will be implemented for the rest of semester and will form the basis of your work for Assignments 4 and 5.
This is an individual assignment.
Report Requirements
The report has the following requirements:
• It must be 2–4 pages in length (1 page maximum for title, concept statement, and overview, 1–3 pages for the
treatment and concept art).
• It needs to be submitted electronically as both a PDF file and a Word (or equivalent) file.
The concept document should address the following areas:
• Overview, including:
o The working title.
o The concept statement.
o Genre or category of game.
o Concept creation process/area (e.g. subtractive design, anti-game, mashup, etc.) and influences.
o Audience and competitive analysis.
• Game treatment and concept art.
Referencing
It is expected that you will need to reference pre-existing games or any images from external sources (e.g. for influences or
concept art). Any suitable referencing style is acceptable for this assignment, but it must at least be consistently and
correctly applied throughout your document. Additionally, all images in your report should be captioned and referred to
somewhere in the text – i.e. they should always support what the text is saying and be relevant.
See here for the University's guide to referencing here: http://www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/staff_resources.html.
Assignment Submission
Two files must be submitted before 11:55pm Friday 30th of August (Week 7):
• The report files (PDF and Word/equivalent copies), to be submitted electronically.
• A signed individual assignment coversheet (available from the EICT website:
http://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0006/161376/AssignmentCover.doc)
These files should be submitted through MyLO only.
Student Name: Working Title:
Assignment 2 — Game Concept Document Individual Assignment (5%)
criteria HD DN CR PP NN
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ILO1
Design and specify requirements of games

Overview (40%)
specified the game's working
title
failed to specify the game's
working title
provided a concise and
interesting concept statement
provided a concise concept
statement
failed provide a concise concept
statement
identified genre(s) and
thoroughly explained reasoning
identified genre(s) and partially explained reasoning identified (plausible) genre(s) failed to identified genre(s)

provided detailed explanation of
how the game concept was
developed with influences
identified and relevant
examples provided
provided detailed explanation of
how the game concept was
developed with influences
identified
provided detailed explanation of
how the game concept was
developed
provided basic explanation of
how the game concept was
developed with influences
identified
failed to describe how the game
concept was developed
provided a detailed description
of the target audience and
thoroughly justified why they
would be interested in the game
concept
provided a detailed description
of the target audience and
somewhat justified why they
would be interested in your
game concept
provided a detailed description
of the target audience
provided a basic description of
the target audience
failed to provide an adequate
description of the target
audience
Treatment (40%)
provided an exciting treatment
and clearly highlighted
compelling features of game
concept
provided an exciting treatment
and highlighted compelling
features of game concept
provided an exciting treatment provided a basic treatment of
game concept
failed to provide an adequate
description of the game concept
selected concept art was
appropriate, consistent, and
provided a clear idea of the
targeted style
selected concept art was
appropriate and consistent
selected concept art was
appropriate
provided concept art failed to provide adequate
concept art

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Design and specify requirements of games


General Style (20%)
wrote very well and work was
easily understandable
wrote well and work was easily
understandable
Wrote well and work was
understandable
wrote adequately wrote poorly
had no spelling and/or
grammatical errors
had some spelling and/or grammatical errors had many spelling and/or
grammatical errors
cited references where
appropriate in a consistent style
cited references where appropriate failed to cite references where
appropriate
all included images are
relevant, captioned, and
referred to in the text
some included images are relevant, captioned, and referred to in the text images are irrelevant, poorly
captioned, and/or not referred
to in the text
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