Constraints and opportunities *

Some points that should be considered when reviewing the company activities.

Once a project has been ongoing it’s very easy to lose track of the original goals.

What were you considering for your game initially? How would those points help to build a game the market wants? Has anything changed that can affect the game? (positively or negatively)

• Audience

  • Is the game still aimed at the expected audience?

  • What platforms will they be able to use?

    • Console

    • Mobile

    • PC

    • Screen sizes

    • Input devices

    • ...

  • Who is the planned audience?

    • Preschool

    • Kids

    • Teens

    • Adults

    • Work Force tutoring

• Business

  • Is the game still respecting the business goals associated with costs and relationships with clients.

  • Respecting budget?

    • Money

    • Installations and/or equipment necessary

    • Team members

    • Time

  • Is a partner involved? Does he have requirements of:

    • Content

    • Mode of access or delivery

    • Presentation

  • Showcase something?

    • New tech

    • Art style, audio video style?

• Competition

  • Has the game deviated from it's original goals and became similar to games released in the market?

  • Gaming trends associated with the game?

    • Control or gaming Mechanic?

    • Visual, difficulty, theme?

    • Game session type/time expected?

• Gameplay

  • Does the game still have the expected features?

    • Have there been any features that have been consistently asked by players and that could be added?

    • Have there been any features that were added and could be removed with minimal impact?

    • Has the game experience changed because of a change in the features?

      • Simple game to complex game?

      • Single session to save session?

      • Puzzle to another genre (platformer, RPG, strategy )

• Development

  • Does the team still know how the game is to be developed and released?

    • Has feature creep made it so the game keeps growing and gets pushing a release date?

    • Has the team focused so much on details that it can't finish anything for release:

      • Assets keep being changed.

      • Prototypes of mechanics get remade.

      • World aspects keep getting changed.

    • Has the documentation been kept up to date:

      • Does it keep changing before it's contents can be developed?

      • Has it become outdated and been a source of problems when the team develops it's contents.