Requirements for Cook It
From DIT Experimental Gaming Group
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This page shows the requirements specific to this game, as well as the requirements that apply to all games
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FOR THIS GAME
Requirement Id: Teach_Culinary_Vocabulary
From Game Design: Cook It!
Description: The game must teach a vocabulary of common food, kitchen utensils, and cooking-related action verbs
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: each language must provide a set of 30(?)words to measure against
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible Implementation: According to Mark the easiest way of going about this is to have a choice between 3 ready made sentences one of which is the correct one. Fill in the gaps (1 or 2) in a given sentence is also possible. Reconstructing a sentence from words or chunks appears to be more difficult.
Requirement Id: Culture_Based_Recipes
From Game Design: Cook It!
Description: the game must use 3 culture-neutral recipes, and 2 recipes specific to the culture of the target language
Rationale: meet cultural-awareness criterion
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: on a given run of the game, 3 recipes from the culture neutral list are used, and 2 from the relevant language-specific list
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible Implementation:
Suggested recipes include..:
Culture-neutral: Burgers and chips, Pizza, Fish and vegetables
French: Couscous, Coq au vin, Tarte Tatin
Italian: Panetone, Tagliatelli, Carbonara, Osso Bucco
Spanish: Paella, Fabada, Tortilla, Turrón
German: Lebkuchen
Requirement Id: Recipe_Background
From Game Design: Cook It!
Description: The game will give background information in English on the culture-specific recipes
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: Language team to confirm this when game is completed.
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: This is similar to the "Did you know" feature of other mini-games
Possible Implementation: Use speech bubble, audio voice over
Requirement Id: Keep_Score
From Game Design: Cook It!
Description: The game keeps track of the players score as they collect ingredients
Rationale: player motivation/gameplay
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: a score is presented on screen throughout the game.
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible Implementation:
Does the score only ever increment, or can a player lose points for incorrect choices?
Should the score persist across different mini-games?
FOR ALL GAMES
These are relevant to all the games, so relevant to this one too.
Requirement Id: Languages_Equally_Represented
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: each language needs to be equally well represented by whatever media content is chosen
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: low
How to measure success: each language has equal number of minutes of audio/video content
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Requirement Id: Simple_Sentences_Only
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: The system will address simple sentence structure only.
Rationale: some sentence structure can become unduly complex.
Originator: Ute?
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: low
How to measure success: an empirical measure to test if the solution matches the original requirement
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Requirement Id: Present_Tense_Only
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: The game will only deal with the present tense
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: Odette?
Status: potential / under discussion / accepted / dropped / delivered
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: an empirical measure to test if the solution matches the original requirement
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: how important is this requirement for the customer: low / medium / high
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Requirement Id: Satisfy_Syllabus
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: Game ideas generated much match the syllabus
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: potential / under discussion / accepted / dropped / delivered
Likelihood of change: low
How to measure success: an empirical measure to test if the solution matches the original requirement
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: high
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Requirement Id: Support_4_Languages
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: The game must support French, Spanish, German, Italian
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: low
How to measure success: media & content must be available in each of the languages mentioned
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Req1_Languages_Equally_Represented
The initial iteration will be developed in English.
Requirement Id: Favour_Creative_Commons
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: the developers should favour creative commons materials when collecting a/v content
Rationale: to minimise royalty costs
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: an empirical measure to test if the solution matches the original requirement
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible implementation:
Requirement Id: Supported_Platforms
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: target platform will be pc with mouse & keyboard
Rationale: this simplifies development
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: low
How to measure success: the product will run on a machine running Windows 2000 or newer
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible implementation:
Requirement Id: Port_To_Console
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: It would be nice to port he game to the Xbox later
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: the person who raised the requirement
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: the game will run on an Xbox console
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible implementation:
Requirement Id: Include Cultural Aspects in Games
From Game Design: what game design does this requirement come from
Description: Each game should include cultural aspects
Rationale: a justification of the requirement
Originator: Tanya
Status: under discussion
Likelihood of change: medium
How to measure success: ???
Conflicts: other requirements that cannot be implemented if this one is implemented
Importance to Customer: medium
See Also: Link to supporting material...
Possible implementation:
