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Sophie Artemigi<\/a> – Pitches and Game Loops<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sophie was kind enough to give us a very informative talk about game loops<\/mark> and give us feedback\/ideas on elevator pitches<\/mark> for our games. Pictured above is what I did during the game loop activity, where she gave us classic games to then put into game loops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She split the basic structure into start state, player action, result of action and win\/fail. Here, you can see that we failed to question whether Snake has a win state. At first you’d say no, but as the play space is limited, there is a limit to how long your snake can be – therefore the win state would be achieving the highest possible score\/length within the finite space of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then she came around to briefly touch upon elevator pitches for our games 1-on-1. I was initially struggling to condense the interesting part\/s of my idea into one\/two sentences, however after I said that in my head I have a main question<\/mark> I’m trying to answer, she said it was a perfect first slide to hook<\/mark> people with, and then to use her suggested elevator pitch as the next slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this, and a lot of iteration on my game pillars last week, I felt confident enough to start putting some of these things into a PowerPoint so I wasn’t going to be making the entire pitch deck last minute (below are the hook, elevator pitch, game overview, design intention and game pillars I came up with on Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n