Creative iMedia
R099 – Digital games
This is a portfolio unit. It's worth 35% of the final mark for the course.
You'll be given the portfolio part when you're ready to do it, but not until you've been taught about designing digital games.
The portfolio part of this unit is supposed to take 12–15 hours to complete and is made up of three tasks.
Portfolio tasks
The portfolio for this unit is split into three tasks:
- Task 1 – client needs and planning
- Task 2 – creating the game and evidencing with screenshots
- Task 3 – testing and reviewing
For task 2 it's really important that you evidence the creation and editing of the component parts of the game – the backgrounds, the sounds, the images, the characters etc... There's a whole line of the markgrid that is to do with this. It's common for people to provide little or no evidence for this, and the overall mark suffers.
Useful links:
These links might be helpful:
Copyright free image sources – these are high quality images that can be downloaded and used effectively
Copyright free audio and video sources – these are probably sources you can actually use in school, although things tend to be trickier when video or audio are involved