Paper Prototype

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Contents 1 Topic Summary 2 Topic Assignments 2.1 Creating a Paper Prototype For Your Game Idea 2.2 Wiki Update 3 Related Links and Tutorials 4 Search the Web for more information

Topic Summary

• Learn to playtest an interactive project using Paper Prototyping
• Develop a paper prototype

Topic Assignments

Creating a Paper Prototype For Your Game Idea

"Paper prototyping is a widely used method in the user-centered design process, a process that helps developers to create software that meets the user's expectations and needs— in this case, especially for designing and testing user interfaces. It is throwaway prototyping and involves creating rough, even hand sketched, drawings of an interface to use as prototypes, or models, of a design." Read more on Wikipedia.

1. Read the Five Paper Prototyping Tips.

2. Watch the "Trouble" Game Paper Prototyping clip. Here's another by a student.

3. Create a paper prototype for your social change game idea. Use cutouts to represent, buttons, changing text and moving objects. Prototype should reflect game design.

4. Playtest your prototype with your team members than playtest another team's prototype if possible.

Wiki Update

• Record comments, notes and feedback about your prototype. Leave feedback about another team's prototype.

Related Links and Tutorials

Here are optional tutorials and activities you can do to learn more Paper Prototyping:

• Paper prototyping
• Five Paper Prototyping Tips
• The Interaction-Design.org Encyclopedia entry on Mock-ups
• 7 photos of paper prototyping
• Paper Prototyping Article

Search the Web for more information

Here are some search results on Flash text tools:

• Google results for "game & paper & prototyping".
• YouTube results for "paper & prototyping".
• Ask.com results for "game & paper & prototyping".