Study Proposal

What I am proposing to do.

For BA6 – Project One, I plan to focus my study around the area of the mobile game market, focusing mainly on game Apps. Through this study and research I hope to go on to design an App, creating a games document to showcase the produced artwork and game design. I will then take this artwork to produce a demo of the game. To achieve this goal, I will also have to spend time learning to use a game engine such Gamesalad. Alongside this, on a more contextual level I would also like to do some research into publishing my App and compare this to industry.

Why I am proposing to do this.

There are a number of reasons why I propose this as my area of study. Firstly, I think that by designing a game and then taking it beyond the design process and actually beginning to make it will really help me hone my drawing skills as well as my artistic style. As well as this by taking the game into production I will increase my range of industry skills, as it will involve me learning whole new software’s, such as Gamesalad, as well as increasing my animation ability.

Another reason is that I think producing a game design document for an App that I had designed would look really good in my portfolio. This is why I also plan to do some contextual research into how to publish my App so that I could continue the project on and eventually publish alongside a later project.

Finally, I choose to focus my studies on the App market specifically as this is the area of the market that I would hope to work in as I think this is what my work would best suit. Also, on a more personal level I wanted to look at the App market and creating Apps as I have followed the markets evolution form the very beginning?

How I will achieve my goals.

I plan to achieve my goals through a number of different methods. Firstly, to keep the whole project on track I am going to create a schedule, setting deadlines for each section of work to be completed. As well as this, I will keep the schedule updated, changing it if I am ahead or behind schedule. Also I plan to achieve my goals by learning new software’s e.g. illustrator, Gamesalad. I plan to do this through the use of online tutorials and the help of my tutors, however I will need to make time for this in the schedule.