Simons Comunity Brief

While we waited to be assigned a Charity to work with, we were given the task of creating a game pitch document for the Simons Community. It was probably not going to be the charity or game we would be working on, but it was a test for the teams to see if we could work together efficiently

➢ Consider how you would create a game to convey the purpose and activities undertaken by

the Dublin Simon Community.

➢ You should conduct research into activities and services provided by the service

➢ Consider the game type, it’s tone and its presentation

➢ Don’t forget that ‘serious’ does not mean ‘boring’ – serious games can be funny, engaging

and informative all at once

➢ Submit your document as a PDF containing all team members names, a brief outline of the

game loop/core mechanic and any sketches or diagrams you have made.

➢ 3 pages max.

So I made a thread in the discord to keep things organised and asked the team to start posting ideas in the ideas chat of the discord, seeing as it was ungraded, it was unnecessary to start up the Trello for this.

We got a few good ideas for the game, and I let them develop their ideas over the week, in the end, we had a vote on what idea we thought was the "best".

We ended up deciding on Justin's Tycoon Idea where the player would manage the charity and build up donations to spend it on the charity's services.

We needed some concept art and a description for the game to put into our document, so I delegated Erik to focus on basic gameplay and core mechanics, and the rest of the team on the concept and ideation. Meanwhile, I focused on the description of the game and what message we would focus on with it.

Justins initial idea

Goal

Provide Home to the homeless per level this could go like village, town and city.

so the village level goal is to provide 50 homes for the homeless.

the level is cleared when the conditions are met.

Start Up

the game starts with no funding, one building for the player to start with and one donation spot

the building has max compacity of 5

Mechanic

Donation spot generates funding which can used to upgrade the building

---so by upgrading the building the compacity of the building gets increase by 5 until its maxed out and you can also purchase additional buildings (if necessary).

the player can also use the funding money to open more donations spots or the current donation spot.

--if the player upgrades it increase the spots donation

The final pitch, with the art and descritption from the team.

Simon Community Serious Game.pdf

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