Planning & milestones

Just to have some idea about the amount and organization of work (and to have a big laugh afterwards) here is the 'big plan':

• 09/2009: the game idea
• Milestone: presentation of the idea to my mentors (Raoul & Wim) and classmates.
• 10/2009: the story board
• Milestone: a story board for the intro, a game level and the outro of the game.
• 11/2009: the animatics
• Milestone: an animatic (story reel) for the intro, game level and outro with music.
• 12/2009: game level backgrounds
• Milestone: 2 backgrounds for the game level.
• 01/2010: game setup in XNA & figures
• Milestone 1: a first executable game with the 2 backgrounds that scroll @ different speeds.
• Milestone 2: drawings of the main figure 'Simon' and his enemies
• 02/2010: game design/development
• Milestone: Simon can have a walk in the game
• 03/2010: game design/development & level animations
• Milestone 1: Simon can walk and fight in the game.
• Milestone 2: walk, run, jump, ... animations of Simon and his enemies
• 04/2010: level animations & intro animation
• Milestone: the intro animation
• 05/2010: outro animation & music/sounds
• Milestone: the outro animation
• 06/2010: rounding up - finishing, polishing, ... and shrink wrapping
• Milestone: a playable - and hopefully cool - game.