PDP and Games Design Document (P7, P8, M2)

This is my draft doument of my PDP

Above is a copy of my draft document of my PDP. I asked Keith Pullinger to go through my PDP and point out any improvements that may need to be sorted out and applied to this document.


I got Keith to go over my PDP and Keith gave me feedback on what I need to do to improve my work. So to repay him I went over his PDP to try and help him to improve his work and may even help to bump up his grade. I was looking for any mistakes which could lower his grade which would be little things like him missing a bit of punctuation like full stops, capital letters and other bits of punctuation.

Draft Games Design Document with comments

I asked Oliver to review my games design document. I asked him if he could go through my games design documents looking for any problems that need to be sorted, things like a comma needed, full stops missed, general punctuation error and terminology that is needed to be imputed. If anything was found Oliver left a comment pointing out the mistakes so that I could reprimand it.

PDP and Games design review (D2)

My Draft PDP
Completed PDP
I got someone to proof read my PDP and thanks to Keith, who gave me feedback on my work I was able to reprimanding all the punctual mistakes that I made within my PDP as well as imputing the terminology where possible.

What was the PDP made for?

It was made so that I could keep track of what I have learnt and how I have had to overcome some barriers so that I can learn the skills. it was also made so that I can use it at anytime if I wanted to recorded any skills that I have learnt. it also helps because it is some where that I can put any personal goals and set my self a time that I have to try to achieve them by.

My draft Games Design document with comments
My completed Games Design Document



I got Oliver to read and put comments on my Games design document and thanks to Oliver I was able to improve my Games design document and make it look more professional all the comments that he left I added what he said I need to add and have linked the completed document and the draft with comments above.

What was the games design document for?

Thanks to my games deign document I was able to learn new things such. I learnt how to make my games design document consistent which will make my work look more professional also I found out how long and how much work is put in to the creation of the game. I have also learnt about different styles of fonts that I can use to make things such as headings stand out over general text.

Evaluate Game Pitch (D1)

Analyse
What did I have to do? Well I had to first use my written communicational skills to create a PowerPoint to do my game pitch. Then I had to use my spoken communicational skills along side with my body jesters to communicate effectively to the people I was presenting my game pitch to.

Assess
For my game pitch I had to put all of my worry's behind me so that I could give the best presentation I could do this by using the terminology generally correctly and consistently as well as being able to address the audience instead of staring at the bored and not keeping eye contact with the audience.

Evaluate
Even though I was worried about how my presentation was going to go I had my mined set on at least getting a merit. In my PowerPoint which you will see at the bottom of the page I used bullet points to remind me what I needed to say along with a couple of questions which I would answer so that I could explain everything I need to cover.

Comment critically
I think that my pitch went pretty well, but I  had one problem which was pointed out by Richard and this was that I said maybe to much which meant that I wasn't 100% sure about my game which just sent me down to a merit.

Evaluate critically
The PowerPoint was good but I missed out some bits of terminology that was needed. So I should have put more terminology within the PowerPoint to remind me to use it but I was helped out by my class mates when they asked question at the end of the presentation so that I could bump my grade up.

Summaries
I managed to achieve a merit which I am kind of happy with but if I hadn't said maybe so much and put a bit more terminology in I would have been able to get a distinction but I am happy with a merit due to the fact that I get worried when I stand up in front of people and have to talk.

VOIP (P5)

VOIP is a Voice Over Internet Protocol, a category of software that enables people to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in packets such as something like Skype.

VOIP gives to people things that companies make people pay extra for such as:

Caller ID

Call waiting

Call transfer

Repeat dial

Return call

Three-way calling

Advantages:

• It gives you access to free application that you would usually have to pay for
• Easy to use
• You can integrate it with an existing phone connection
• You can send messages and phone someone at the same time

Disadvantages:

• You can loss service during outings
• With VOIP emergency calls, it is hard to locate you and send help in time
• Some times during calls, there may be periods of silence when data is lost while it is being unscrambled
• There can be moments when it may lag and make it so that it is hard to understand the other person!

Name of applications	Advantages	Disadvantages
Skype	You can directly talk to the other person and you can send messages to other people at the same time.	The quality of the video chat can be bad when in a low connection area. Not everyone has Skype on their laptop
Facebook	You are able to talk to multiple people at once.	You aren’t able to video chat people or just generally talk to them other than sending messages
Email	You are able to send attachments such as documents and images.	Sometimes it takes a while to get a reply from someone because they may not check them email regularly.

Skype is the better of the three applications because you are able to do what the other applications can do and more. It is able to talk to people individual people or a group of people using video chat as well as being able to message people individually or in a group. Whereas Facebook and email you are only able to sent messages which sometime you have to wait a while to get a reply whereas Skype you generally get a reply quickly.

Learning styles (M3)

Everyone has a learning style that they prefer. What are learning styles? Learning styles are the way in which people find easiest to learn, there are three different learning styles audio, visual and kinaesthetic. Audio means that people find it easiest to learn from someone speaking, visual means people find it easiest to learn by reading and kinaesthetic means that the find it easiest to learn from doing the work. I am a visual and kinaesthetic learner.


During lessons we were put in to groups to see how each learning style paired with another could work well or not. I was partnered with Jordan who was kinaesthetic but it didn't work well because my partner wasn't good at working in pairs because he wouldn't allow me to do any work.

Pragmatist means dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories. 

Reflector is conscientious but has a problem getting started.

Activist are suited to getting hands on with what they are doing rather than listening to lectures.

Theorist are people that stand back and think about the work before they start doing the work.

I believe that I am a theorist because during our lesson we had 10 pieces of paper and 10 strips of tape that we had to use to make a bridge from one desk to another. The reason this activity made me believe that I am a theorist is because Tyler tried to go straight in to doing the work because he is a pragmatist and I stopped him so that I could think of a logical way in which to so this activity then we came up with an idea and manage to create the only bridge that worked in the class.

Review Document (M2 blog)

My edited Document
The changes I made to the original document was that I made it so that you knew what was the title because at the beginning I wasn't sure what the title was. Also I edited it by making the headings prominent so you will know what the headings are. Also I removed the indents within the paragraphs.

Evaluation of written techniques (D1)

When we were doing work in class Me and Tyler had to choose out of a group of Game design documents what document we wanted to look at so out of the group we choose Fallout Brotherhood of Steel 2 because we enjoyed the game and wanted to see what their original ideas were.

Obviously every game design document has its Pros the pros I found:

• They use good illustrative pictures which where recycled for the previous Fallout.
• They used the faded out background well.
• It is well laid out with a contents page that shows you which pages things are on.
• They kept the text of the content consistent.
• They made the document look professional.

You would think that everything would have its cons but I was unable to find any cons within the document.

I conclude that this game concept is well designed with good illustrative picture that help to show off the game which is also very well laid out and easy to navigate and find what you want to find. They also keep it looking professional by keeping the text consistence.