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24 3. Writing Pitch Docs and Exec Docs Story All games, even simple puzzles like Tetris, have a story. This may not incorporate text in the final game version (as is the case in games for kids at pre-reading age), but it provides a mood for your project and a coherence of emotional content. Naturally, the story section for an epic RPG is going to be a lot more specific, and for a title like that, this section of the pitch can be both larger and more critical to the overall document.
4. 4 Exercises 1. Take three of your favorite video games, from separate genres and audiences if possible, and write an executive summary for each. Focus on the game’s core concepts; “sell” the product and do not exceed 50 words in your opening (short) summary. , “Samus Aran”). 2. Draft an original game concept and write a pitch document for it. If you’re feeling frisky, create concept art or design diagrams and embed them in relevant sections of the document. Frame your competition analysis as a comparative table using at least three games created in the last five years.
2. No one likes a game they don’t understand. This puts game developers in a bit of a bind. How do you teach the game to players who won’t read the text that teaches them how to play the game? Luckily, the simple answer is in-game pop-ups that appear to help guide the player as he plays the game. As the manual writer, it may fall upon your shoulders to help write the text that goes in these pop-ups. Text pop-ups have a different flavor from manual prose. First, they have to be much shorter, especially for console games.