Storyboard Proposal Guidelines

The presentation format is flexible, but the following points should be covered:

• Chosen science topic and general concept of activity
• Brief description of scientific base
• Learning objective(s) and educational value:
  • What will players learn?
  • What do players need to know in order to understand new concepts?
• Storyline of activity
• Descriptions of user's experience:
  • What will user experience be like?
  • How will players move through the activity?
  • How will they recieve feedback?
  • How will they win/lose?
  • What features will make the game enjoyable for the duration of gameplay?
  • You may wish to include flow charts for navigation, player actions and reward system relationships: anything that will help us visualize your ideas.
• User interface design:
  • What will the interface look like?
  • How will feedback and score be presented?
  • Create storyboards for common player sequences or actions;
  • Include scripts for introductory video, how-to-play instructions, feedback text/video and end-of-game screen;
  • How do you imagine your activity to be integrated within a gen-nano mission?
  • What should our developers know or do in order to successfully implement your storyboard?

For examples, guideline documents and recommendations refer to the Resources section of this site.