Game Project Management

Graded Course Project Information
 

Forming your Team and Company

Each Team forms a (fictional but realistic) startup company as a computer game developer and must create at least the following (graded) materials to give their company verisimilitude (and if you don't remember what "verisimilitude" means from Game Design class, Week 8, then look it up; the limits of your language are the limits of your world):

• The company name [for example, "Way Late Games"], motto [example continued, "You know it's great when you're playing Way Late."] and logo [completing example, a picture of a melting clock reading 3am].
• Approximately one half-dozen business cards for each team member (including business name, company logo (motto is optional), the individual's name and job description (see below), the company's (fictional) address, a (fictional) telephone number, and a (fictional) email address.
  HINT: Make sure that each person’s name and title is written LARGE on the business card; since you’ll be pitching product, you want prospective clients to be able to look down and easily re-learn your names and titles during a presentation.
• A sample sheet of company stationary with letterhead.

Each company also includes one other person, their 'Biz Dev' (i.e., the Business Development person who is the course instructor). It is the Biz Dev's job to help you as follows:

• Guide you through the formation of your company
• Steer you to safety in the treacherous waters of the game business (i.e., to provide class lectures on this material and help each team member learn and succeed at their individual jobs on The Team)
• Affirm your game ideas to assure that can be successfully pitched and proffer suggestions to improve that likelihood
• Show samples of pitch packets that have been successful in the past, and provide instructions as to what to include and how to organize it
• Develop and rehearse your pitch presentation to sell your game ideas to the client

The key concept here is that the instructor is a member of every Team (every Company) and succeeds or fails along with you. We're in this together!