Lab 1 - Project Design Document

1. Understand what a Personal Project is

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

2. Review Design Doc examples

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

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

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

3. Complete your Project Concept V1

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

1. Add your name and date in the top-right corner

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

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

4. Complete your Project Timeline

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

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

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

5. Complete your MVP sketch

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

1. Look at sketch in the example

1. 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

6. Recap

New progress

• Completed your project concept and production timeline

New concepts & skills:

• Personal Projects

• Design Documents

• Project Timelines,

• Project Milestones and Backlogs

• Minimum Viable Products