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Final Video Game Design Project

A rubric of several different characteristics about videogames

Rubric Code: P247XC2

By fpnorvil

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Public Rubric

Subject: Computers

Type: Project

Grade Levels: (none)

Category
	Excellent (N/A)	Good (N/A)	Fair (N/A)	Poor (N/A)
First-impression gameplay	Excellent First-impression gameplay attracts the user's attention in comparison to other games similar in the play-store or app-store.	Good First-impression gameplay is somewhat attractive to users.	Fair First-impression gameplay is okay, but similar to many existing games and easily gets mistaken for others.	Poor No effort on testing on gameplay
Title/ icon/ ad represenation	Excellent Accurate representation of the game, as a whole, easy to remember, highly attractive	Good Accurate representation of the game, a pretty good picture, and somewhat easy to remember.	Fair An obscure representation seen only once in the game, not very good reminder.	Poor A representation that has absolutely nothing to do with the game, and incredibly bad one at that
Technical Proficiency	Excellent There are no glitches, no unexpected movement, no pauses in gameplay and no inneffective camera movements	Good There are barely noticable glitches, unexpected movements, pauses or ineffective camera movements, but not enough to diminish gameplay	Fair Glitches, unexpected movements, pauses and ineffective camera movements are apparrent and effect gameplay, but not enough to stop you from playing the game	Poor Glitches, unexpected movements, pauses and ineffective camera movements are apparent and effect gameplay enough to keep you from wanting to play the game
Level Design	Excellent Level Design is well done and clean. Fun to be in and add to the atmosphere and feeling of escapism. Transitions from one level to the next are smooth and sensible for flowing game-play.	Good Level Design is pretty good, though there is something missing. They neither add nor detract from the game itself.	Fair Level Design is okay, but not really that good. Sampled the previous default level design but not the same layout	Poor Level Design is bad. No cohesion or smoothness in transition.
Replay Value	Excellent This game can be played over and over again and be just as mush fun as it was the first time	Good This game can be played again, but it will not be the as much fun the second time around as it was the first time it was played through	Fair While you could play this game again, why would you really want to?	Poor After playing it the first time, you might as well uninstall it.
Fun Factor	Excellent This game is great fun! You can see yourself rushing to play all the time. You even make time to play it.	Good This game is fun! Although you woudn't create time to play it, when you do have free time, it would be a welcome diversion	Fair This game is all alright. When you get tired or frustrated with your other games, this would be one of the alternates you would consider playing instead	Poor This game is awful. You would rather read a book than play this game
Overall Effectiveness	Excellent If you could own only ten mobile games, this would be one of them	Good It would hurt you to have to part with this game, but you could if you had to do so	Fair Although it was fun to play, it would not be difficult to get rid of this game to pick up some extra cash	Poor You would be angry at having spent your hard-earned cash on this game
Originality	Excellent Product shows a large amount of originality and thought, ideas are creative and inventive, and this is the type of game that others would copy off.	Good The product shows some original thought. work shows new ideas and insights. Some ideas are replicated but elevated to create a new experience.	Fair The product uses several other people's ideas with some reimagining.	Poor Uses other people's ideas without giving them credit. A complete copycat without elevation.
Scenario/Applied Script to the game	Excellent Contains a clear detailed description on how the game is played and the rules are clearly explained. The scoring is fair and there are some strategies offered.	Good Contains a clear description on how to play, somewhat good guides, the scoring isn't quite fair but it's close.	Fair Contains an understandable description on how to play the game but there may be an area of confusion. The strategy tips may be absent	Poor Contains a description of how to play the game, but lacks the full detail needed to understand the directions
Visual narrative	Excellent Visual narrative is present in the game, endescriptive, and perfectly understandable	Good Script is present and in the right place	Fair Script/plot is present but doesn't tie into the game	Poor No correlation between Script/Plot and the game.
User Experience	Excellent The UI is visually well-rendered, cohesive, unique, and enticing to players. Guides are informative, clear, simple, and intuitive.	Good The UI is visually well-rendered, cohesive Guides are informative, clear, and simple.	Fair The UI is visually unique, well-rendered. The guides are informative and clear.	Poor UI and guides lack cohesive and clarity without narrative reasoning.
Theme	Excellent The game board design matches the theme and has highly attractive visual elements All characters and assets match the theme and visual storytelling.	Good The game board design matches the theme and has standard visual elements All characters and assets match the theme.	Fair The game board is attractive, with visually similar visual elements. All characters and assets are present.	Poor The game board is playable. No theme or visual continuity is present. No characters or assets are present.
Sound	Excellent BG music loops and sets an appropriately entrancing mood. SFX fits user actions and in-game visuals and enhances the intended mood of the gameplay.	Good BG music loops and sets an appropriate mood. SFX fits user actions and in-game visuals.	Fair BG music loops. SFX exist but do not fully match user or in game visuals.	Poor Soundtrack is missing or unsuitable.
Obstacles/Difficulty	Excellent The obstacles/puzzles entertainingly slow the player without demotivating continued play.	Good Obstacle/puzzles slow the player in an interesting way (e.g., freeze, trap, start over).	Fair The obstacle moves and slows the player.	Poor The obstacle/puzzle is missing, does not slow the player.
Characters/Asset Design	Excellent NPCs are customized to move and change according to the user's gameplay or interaction. The appearance captivates the player's interest.	Good NPCs are customized to move and change according to the user's gameplay or interaction.	Fair NPCs are present with limited connectivity to the theme and/or game.	Poor No NPCs are present.
Score	Excellent The scoring system is clear to see. The way points are gained or lost are clear to understand and/or motivating to the user.	Good The scoring system is clear to see. The way points are gained or lost is clear to understand.	Fair The scoring system is clear to see.	Poor Scoring system is missing or

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