Game Review Pitch Fundamentals
What do you need to communicate in your pitch?
You will be pitching one of those existing games to be played by a specific audience. The audience for your pitch could be kids your age, teachers, or designers.
Make a presentation deck using your presentation software (Powerpoint, Keynote, Google Slides). You will likely have 10-15 slides. You will probably have one slide for each of the items bolded below. Plan on your pitch being 5-10 minutes, including questions. You can use screenshots of the game to better explain something.
State your name, age and grade on the first slide.
Game Specifics to Include in Your Pitch:
- Name of the game
- Who is your audience for this pitch? For example, your pitch could be for kids your age, teachers, or designers?
- What is the game’s subject and how a person is changed by playing?
- Choose 1 or more of the 5 Changes:
- Knowledge: What players know
- Skill: What players can do
- Behavior: How players act
- Emotion: How players feel
- Physiology: How players are
- Why should this game be played?
- Why is this game worthy of the audience’s time?
- What makes your game unique, different or special?
- How is it different from other games you’ve played?
- What makes the game good?
- Easy to Use: Can players figure out what to do?
- Replayability: Would the player play the game again? Why?
- Graphics/Art: Do the art or graphics fit the audience? Do the art/graphics make gameplay easier for the player?
- What can be improved about this game?
- Final thoughts
- Is there anything else you would like to say in your pitch? If yes, then add information here.
- If there is not anything else you want to say, you do not need to add this information.
- Audience Questions?