Unit 2.

Game Design
Criterion A. Inquiring & Analysing
I. Problem or Need

Game Design: The need or Problem

1. Who is your client? (Introduce and give a brief personal background)
My clients name is Bruno Nhavene, he is 12 years old. He has lived in mozambique his whole
life. He is Mozambican and he is the third best player of tennis for his age in africa. He has a big
brother called Armindo Nhavene.He is having trouble with his math skills. So to help him i am
going to make a scratch educational game. It will be about math, the difficulty he is having is
square roots he is not that good and he needs improvement.
2. Describe the situation in detail ( the clients problem or experience)
Like i said before he is having trouble with his math skills, being specific he is having trouble
with his square roots. But not any type of square root they are the fractions square root. That is
very hard to do but i can see that he is having trouble, so i will make a scratch game which is
fun and i want to make it so that he doesnt notice that it is educational.
3. Explain why there is a need to address the situation ( why do you need to help
the client?)
I want to help him first because he has helped me in allot of things and i want him to be good in
math.I also dont want him to have bad grades but the main reason is because he is a very good
friend of mine and like people say you should never disappoint your friend.
4. Discuss how you intend to solve or address the problem.
To solve the problem i will make an educational scratch game. It will be like an animal chasing
another and when he catches the other animal a square root question will come up i think that
will help him allot. Like i aslo said before i also want to make this game not only for him but
every person that is having difficulties in fraction square roots.

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II. Research
Follow an example here: http://goo.gl/NG60tx
Research

Sources in MLA format

Type of source:

Brief summary of research

Guiding Questions
(in order of importance)

For citations, use

http://www.easybib.com
/
Make sure you have a
variety of sources.

Primary or
Secondary

information gathered, and how it

will help in creating the project

1.Where can I find tutorials

to learn how to create
Scratch scripts?

"Scratch - Imagine,
Program, Share."Scratch
Help. Web. 5 Dec. 2014.
<http://scratch.mit.edu/
help/>.

primary

This will help me because if i want to do

something complicated that no one
knows i can use the tutorials to help me.

2.. How can I share my game

to more audience?

Personal interview. 12
2014.

secondary

They told me that i could put the

website on facebook twitter instagram
and tell friends, and those friends will
tell other friendsand one day the whole
world would no about it.

3.Are there Scratch games

similar to what I want to
create?

Me

Secondary

There is not, but there is games that are

similar. Like that are math but not the
same topic as mine.

4.
How can i make my game
more interesting?

How To Make Games

More Fun." YouTube.
YouTube, n.d. Web. 09
Dec. 2014.

primary

She tells you how to make a game

more fun and she doesn't only tell you
one way she tells you many ways to
make it funner.

5.Why do people play

educational games?

Playing to Learn:
Panelists at Stanford
Discussion Say Using
Games as an Educational
Tool Provides
Opportunities for Deeper
Learning."Stanford
University. N.p., n.d.
Web. 09 Dec. 2014.

primary

It tells you that people play them for

various reasons but the main reason is
because there teacher or parents tell
them to.

6.Can video games make you

smarter?

Can Video Games Make

You Smarter?" YouTube.
YouTube, n.d. Web. 09
Dec. 2014.

primary

It tells you that games make you

smarter in a specific type of way that no
one knows. Kids think it is boring and
everything but if you know why people
make educational games you would
play them every day.

7.how to make theme music

for your game

"Scratch Tutorial: How to

Make Theme Music for
Your Game." YouTube.

secondary

It tells you how to put a background

theme song.

YouTube. Web. 9 Dec.

2014.
<http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?
v=bjQ7s9DUTis>.

III. Analysis of Existing Products

Game 1: Well done

Game 2: Average

Game 3: Poorly Done

a. Link/URL for the

game

http://scratch.mit.edu/

http://scratch.mit.edu/proje
cts/26621012/#player

b. Briefly describe the

game

This game is about a monster thast

touches globes and a question
appears about capitals of Africa.
Only Africa countries. If you get the
answer right you get 1 point if you
bumb or fall ona obstacle you lose a
point. Basically this game testes
your knlowledge about the capitals
in Africa.This game is good and
doesnt have glitches. It has good
graphics and it is simple , fun and
hard. But overall I like it it is good
and I have no complains.

You basically play memory

cards but when you have to
match the question to the
math answer.

c. Possible target
audience for the
game

The person that made this game

said it was for 6 grade up.

it doesnt say

it doesnt say

d. School subject or
topic used in the
game

Humanities( Geography)

Math

Math

There is no glitches and

there is good graphics

i have nothing to say

it is to easy and it ends

very fast.

The arrows dont work

and there is glitches

e. 3 Strong points of
the game

f. 3 Weak points of the

game

It has good graphics, hard

questions and it is an interesting
game.
There isnt easy question, instead of
a monster he could put a real
person and the globes are not

It is about a stick man

that
has
these
adventures and he gets
coins and there is these
math problems when you
go to the next world

creative.

g. 3 Suggestions for
improvement

instead of a monster he could put a

real person

you could
questions

add

more

you could check your

game before posting it.

IV. Design Brief (Check out this example:http://goo.gl/caAkmI )

In a paragraph, answer the following:
a. Summary of your analysis of your research
b. Brief description of your project: What type of game are you designing and creating?
(Check out some examples here: http://goo.gl/InRLoj )
c. Target client or audience or intended users: Who will use your projectt? (Be specific)
d. Purpose of your project: How will your target client or audience benefit from your project?

From what i know many students play online games and video games. But i thought what if i make an educational fun game. It
will be educational but it will be hard to find out. In some schools teachers try to convince them to play educational games but
that doesnt convince them allot. But if people get influenced on my game they will start playing it and playing it again and they will
think the game is not educational. So what i am going to do is make a scratch game which will contain adventure and educational
and fun things all together. My target audience are seventh graders and up because fraction square root are hard and you only l