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Project Design Doc [GOOGLE DOC]

Project Design Doc [WORD].docx

Project Design Doc [PDF].pdf

Understand what a Personal Project is

Review Design Doc examples

Complete your Project Concept V1

Complete your Project Timeline

Complete your MVP sketch

Recap

Lab 1 - Project Design Document

Control the execution of code with common logic structures 

Level 1 Application Scripting

Joy Horvath

Instructional Designer

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In this first ever Lab session, you will begin the preliminary work required to successfully create a personal project in this course. First, you’ll learn what a personal project is, what the goals for it are, and what the potential limitations are. Then you will take the time to come up with an idea and outline it in detail in your Design Document, including a timeline for when you hope to complete certain features. Finally, you will take some time to draw a sketch of your project to help you visualize it and share your idea with others.

The Design Document will be filled out, including the concept, the timeline, and a preliminary sketch of the minimum viable product.

By the end of this lab, you will be able to:

Come up with an idea for a project with a scope appropriate to your time and available resources

Think through a project’s concept in order to better understand its requirements

Plan out a project’s milestones with due dates to better understand the production cycle and to hold yourself more accountable

Create a simple sketch / storyboard in order to better communicate your ideas

Given a particular feature description (e.g. an object spawner, a difficulty select menu, a loading screen, etc.), recommend an appropriate high-level system for its implementation (e.g. what data types would be required, what would be the logic flow, etc.)

Evaluate the efficacy of a finished prototype based on its design criteria

Prototype new concepts

Unit 1 - Player Control

Unit 1 - Player Control (Unity EdLab Edition)

Before we get started on our personal projects, we should make sure we understand our primary goals.

Now that we have some idea of what a Personal Project is, let’s look a couple examples

Click on the link to open a new Project Design Doc as either a Google Doc Copy, a Word Document or PDF

Think through how you would fill out a design doc for other games

Now that we’ve seen some examples, let’s try to come up with our own project concept.

Add your name and date in the top-right corner

Fill in the blanks for the first page of your design document: your project concept 

Share your project concept with someone else to make sure it makes sense to them

Now that we know the basic concept of our project, let’s figure out how we’re going to get it done.

Fill in milestone descriptions based on your schedule for the course, including self-imposed due dates 

Add features that will not be included in your MVP to the “Backlog”

To help visualize our minimum viable product, it’s always helpful to have a sketch.

Using Google Docs, some other online simple drawing program, or pencil and paper, draw a sketch of your MVP and add it to your doc

Lab 1 - Project Design Document

Overview Video

1. Understand what a Personal Project is

2. Review Design Doc examples

3. Complete your Project Concept V1

4. Complete your Project Timeline

5. Complete your MVP sketch

6. Recap

Complete this tutorial