Game Play
- Clarity of Games’ goals
- Player is motivated to play the game again (i.e use of leaderboards, share score etc)
- Levels are creative and attractive with a ramp up of difficulty
- User interface is well defined and enhances the game
- The narrative of the game addresses the theme of addressing climate change and its impacts
- The Game Trailer would encourage someone to play the game
- Player can replay the game using a different approach/strategy
Game Mechanics
- The game poses a set of unique and interesting challenges for the player to overcome
- Implementation of the rules and procedures that guide the player and the game response to the player’s moves or actions
Algorithms
- How decisions are made in the game code, are they simple binary decisions, do they use simple calculations or do they implement a decision algorithm to guide the player or NPC in the game i.e. AI, Machine Learning, graph tree
- Use of Physics calculations to produce a more realistic game
Use of Programming and Game Engine Concepts
- Use of programming concepts and commenting of code
- Use of basic frameworks and libraries provided by the programming language or Game Engine. Has the code been designed with scalability and code reuse in mind i.e. inheritance, polymorphism etc
- Use of advanced frameworks, plugins and external APIs (or development of a custom library/API)
