KIT109 Games Fundamentals
Assignment 2 — Game Concept DevLog
Weighting: 5%
Due Time/Date: 11:55pm Friday 28th 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:
• ILO1: communicate the design and development processes of games.
Assignment Requirements
The assignment is to develop a game concept and present that concept via a Game Concept DevLog on itch.io. The concept
you come up with will be implemented for the rest of semester and will form the basis of your work for Assignments 3, 4
and 5. This is an individual assignment.
Report Requirements
The concept devlog should address the following areas (you should create headings for each of these):
• Overview, including:
o The working title.
o The concept statement.
 Max 100 words1.
o Genre or category of game.
o Concept creation process/area (e.g. subtractive design, anti-game, mashup, etc.) and influences.
 Max 400 words.
o Audience and competitive analysis.
 Max 400 words.
• Game treatment and concept art.
o Max 1000 words.
See lecture slides for information about what each of these sections should contain, and how to approach this assignment.
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: http://www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/staff_resources.html.
Assignment Submission—itch.io
Your concept document needs to be in the form of a DevLog on itch.io published before 11:55pm Friday 28th of August
(Week 7). You will need to create a new “Game” project on your itch.io account with the title of your game and add a
DevLog titled “Game Concept”. See the instructions on MyLO for more detail on how to do this.
Assignment Submission—MyLO
The following file must be submitted before 11:55pm Friday 28th of August (Week 7):
o A signed individual assignment coversheet https://secure.utas.edu.au/computing-information-
systems/resources/cover-sheets/Assignment-Cover-Sheet-Individual-ICT.pdf

1 The penalty for going over the word count will be a drop of a grade level (e.g. HD down to DN, or DN down to CR) for the relevant
section that went over length.
Student Name: Working Title:
Assignment 2 — Game Concept Document Individual Assignment (5%)
criteria HD DN CR PP NN
In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you: In your submission, you:
ILO1
communicate the design and
development processes 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

ILO1
communicate the design and
development processes 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