# Creative and Expressive Play
CSSE 290 – Computer Game Design
Winter 2010–2011

## What is the Creative and Expressive Play document?

The Creative and Expressive Play document describes your game's creative and expressive play in complete detail. It forms part of the Game Script that gives all the details about your game.

## What process should you use to design your Creative and Expressive Play?

Consider using the following process for designing your creative and expressive play (but see below for the form of the Creative and Expressive Play document).

1. Study Chapter 5 of your text (Creative and Expressive Play). It gives many ideas for such play.
2. Brainstorm ideas with your team.
3. Answer the Design Questions for Creative and Expressive Play.
4. As you answer the questions, possibly incorporate some of the answers into your High Concept document and certainly some of the answers into your Game Treatment.
5. Organize your thoughts from the questions (see Section 2 of the Creative and Expressive Play document below).
6. Iterate and refine.

## How should you organize your Creative and Expressive Play document?

Organize your Creative and Expressive Play document as follows, but note that you write the document per the process above (e.g. you write a draft of the Appendix before writing Section 2):

- Working-title, authors and date of this draft

- Section 1: Executive Summary

  A one or two-paragraph description of your creative and expressive play.

- Section 2: Detailed Description

  A carefully organized description of your creative and expressive display in complete detail, including concept artwork.

  - Organize this in a way that makes it coherent. You do not need to follow the sequence of the design questions.

- Appendix: Design Questions

  This appendix should contain complete answers to the Design Questions for Creative and Expressive Play, in the order in which the questions are listed.

Your Creative and Expressive Play document should be placed in the 3-CreativeAndExpressivePlay folder of your team's repository. It is best if your Creative and Expressive Play document is a Microsoft Word document named CreativeAndExpressivePlay.docx. If this is not convenient for your team, let me know so that we are sure that we can communicate successfully.