2/8 Project Scope

For this post, I wanted to create a detailed scope of the project I'm working on. I hope to get feedback on this next Monday and see if I need to update anything before I start pulling together prototypes.

Here are the categories I am considering: 

Motion Dimensions (1 or 2 degrees of freedom)

• Left and right movement
• Forward and back movement

Speed control

• Ball constantly moving forward
• Gravity rolling
• Speed is fully controlled by the player 

Camera Perspective

• Sidescroller
• 3rd person
• Top-down

Single event or gradual motion

• Single button press
• Button hold
• Full control over position
• Partial control - the game automatically changes position for you during an event?

Failure Penalty

• Lives
• Health
• Penalties
• Restarting

Game Duration

• Levels
• Endless runner
• Timed

Goal:
The goal is to create 3 working prototypes combining research and inspiration that has been collected. Keeping in mind how the player controls can be translated to Kinect Movements (head, hand or torso movement). After 3 prototypes have been created, I would like to choose 1 of the 3 to add Kinect movements to and balance further into a more complete game.

I plan on playtesting throughout prototype development as well as do a more formal playtest before choosing a final prototype to further develop. If time permits, I'd love to test the final prototype at a therapy session. I'm not sure if this is in scope or not.