Assignment: Video Game Product Proposal and Presentation

Randy Nichols, University of Washington, Tacoma

The exercise included is the final assignment for my course on the video games industry. It asks students to make use of the various readings and industry sources focused on questions of diversity and differences in media markets in order to create a proposal for a new video game related product. The chief goal is to have students think about the viability for a product which addresses areas the industry struggles with in terms of diversity, audience differences, accessibility issues, employment, etc. The project asks them to model their paper and presentation on a video game design document so that they’re also learning about that genre of writing. Similar assignments can be used in other media industry courses.

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Keywords: game design, media industry, proposal, video game