Game Proposal, Initial Art Work and Mind Maps.

After much deliberation i have decided to make a drag and drop style shape sorting game called "alien Alphies Shape Sorter"  the story line behind the game is, an alien called alphie travels to earth to learn about shapes and its the kids job to teach him!
the reason i chose this idea is because it covers a lot of good game design aspects for 5-7 year old kids like: having a non human character (an alien), making it educational, being able to use bright colours, ability to include interesting graphics and sounds.
The sot of shapes i will use will be split into 2 levels easy and hard, the easy section will include: Squares, Circles and Triangles. The hard section will include: Rectangles, Pentagons and Octagons. I have done research into  shapes for this age group and have proof from my paper prototype that kids can do this and learn something from it!

Here is some initial art work for my game, i was exploring different types of aliens.

In the end i decided to go with the one in the bottom right corner as its simple and i think it looks good. also i can easily change the expressions, stance and can apply him to most enviroments.

Below is my Intitial Game Ideas i decided to use post it notes because it was abit more creative some parts are hidden under some of the post it notes, but this would take far to much time to scan in (i still have the paper coppy if needed.) 

 

 Here is a diagram of my initial ideas made using postit notes and pens, you cant see all of the parts as some are hidden but i still have the papper copys if needed.

 now ive got all this out the way its time to get cracking with the final project!