Step 2: Game Planning

Once you have completed your dossier, you are ready for Step 2. Your entire team should brainstorm ideas together, but each person will take on one of the following roles as you complete Requirements:

Game Planning Worksheet
Storyboard
Full-Page Main Character Sketch

Producer
Your job is to lead your group’s process. First, print out a Storyboard Sheet (link) and Game Planning Worksheet (link) for your group. Make sure all team members participate in your brainstorming. Fill out the Game Planning Worksheet FIRST. Then the artist can do the Character Sketch and everyone else can work on the Storyboard together. Keep everyone on task so that you don’t run out of time!

Director
Your job is to participate in group brainstorming for the Game Planning Worksheet. Then you will work with the producer, writer, and technical advisor to create the Storyboard. You are responsible for drawing thumbnail sketches (simple, rough sketches to show ideas—these don’t need to be beautiful; you can label things too) in each window of your Storyboard to show the plot of your videogame.

Artist
Your job is to participate in group brainstorming for the Game Planning Worksheet. Then you will draw the Full-Page Sketch of the main character, while the rest of your team creates the Storyboard.

Writer
Your job is to participate in group brainstorming for the Game Planning Worksheet. Then you will work with the producer, director, and technical advisor to create the Storyboard. You are responsible for writing the summaries to explain the action going on in each window of the Storyboard.

Technical Advisor
Your job is to participate in group brainstorming for the Game Planning Worksheet. Then you will work with the producer, director, and writer to create the Storyboard. You are responsible for noting any sounds, music, camera shots (close up, zoom out, pan to left, etc.), and special effects after the writer’s summary of each window in the Storyboard.