KS1 Game

Mr Cheesey's spelling fun

Mr Cheesey's spelling fun is platform game with the aim of teaching children to spell. The player must collect the letters dotted around each level, once all the letters are collected they are then asked to spell a certain word (with the help of hints) using the letters they collected.

This is the game concept we came up with when deciding what kind of KS1 game we wanted to create. I orginally came up with the basic game concept when first told the brief. i thought that it would be a good idea to have a game that taught a child how to spell because that was the subject i hated most when i was younger (and still do).

When we were sperated into pairs (or a group of three in my case) i told the group my idea of having a platform based game that involved spelling. The group liked the idea and agreed that it would teach a scarey subject for all young children in a fun way.

From then on we came up with charcter designs, a bit of a narritive, level designs and a put all our ideas into a presentation that we could then later present to the class.

We had to present to the class our idea and they had to vote what games they thought we could take on through to full development. That was proply the hardest thing because we didnt know if our game would make it through. We put so much effort into it that it would of sucked to have to just scrap the idea and go and work on someone elses game. But thats the process of Game Design, scrapping ideas that may have been good and discovering better ideas.

Thankfully 'Mr cheesey's spelling fun!' made it through and it's gonna be great to work on the process of developing it into a flash game, well not just a flash game the best flash game developed by any first years this uni has ever seen!