Drag and Drop Game

We have been set a task to make a drag and srop game in AS3 in flash, so far i've completed my proposal and treatment and started my scope of work and have an idea of what i want my game to be.
Will update soon but am going away for the weekend.

Research

In the Media Industry there are many things that need to be taken into account:

• The average hourly pay for a web designer can range between £20-£50, it can be a lot more depending on the client and the media they are asking for
• For a student it could be from £5-£10 but this can also depend on the client and the media wanted but also how generous the client is being
• Set a fixed price from the beginning and stick to it otherwise the client could end up taking advantage and you could end up losing money
• Research a target audience in depth to make sure you are pitching the correct product
• Never turn down a job, if needed bring in professionals and learn from them so you can expand your knowledge for future clients
• Negotiate deadlines that you are comfortable with and can stick to because if the deadlines aren't met, you could end up losing money and reputation
• Budget for software and equipment must be negotiated or else you could end up losing money
• Make sure the budget is negotiated before work has even started as you could forget to include something and lose money and waste time
• Be sure to include travel arrangements, food and accommodation in the budget or you could end up having to pay for it yourself and lose money

Drag & Drop Games

Drag & Drop Games:

The first game I played was called Drag Drop, in this game you had to click on a hand icon and steer it through obstacles to get to the finish point so you could advance to the next level. I thought this game was quite good, it was challenging but got quite hard as you progressed. I thought this was good because most drag and drop games are usually dress-ups or just terrible, but this was the complete opposite. Graphically it was pretty good for a game of its type and it played really well too, loaded fast and wasn’t jumpy. In saying this there were also some bad points, at times the mouse could get really unresponsive and to solve this you had to refresh the page, this made it harder as you would crash into things without meaning to.
http://vectorgame.com/drag-drop

The second game I played was absolutely shocking. There is not a good word I can think of to describe it. You have to drag a picture onto its relevant word and if you get it right a cheap looking animation comes up and there is no variation to it, once you complete it you will not want to do the exact same thing again.
http://www.prongo.com/drag/

My Brief

We at Industrial Appliances Co. create new and effective ways to peel and process vegetables in industrial bulk, we try to make our products as intuitive as we possibly can, so employees of all ability can use them. Our standards are high with our projects and industrial machinery, we are mainly based in the United Kingdom with manufacturing plants located in several major cities, and we are also beginning to expand our business overseas to European countries such as France, Germany and Spain we already are delivery our products to the United states and are trying to expand into Europe.
To do this we are looking for a brand new website which will promote our new product and business alike which would need to of an extremely high standard because of the market today.
We are the main suppliers to the industrial giant Walkers who have to peel millions of potatoes on a daily basis to make their crisps, we also have contracts with McCoy’s, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Prizma.

The new product is the ProPeel1500, the aim of the new product is to peel and process vegetables on an industrial scale and at a much quicker rate than any other rival products. We aim to do this by increasing the amount of vegetables you can peel and process at once, by doing this the customers will be able to save valuable time and even money. We have tried to make our product as eco-friendly as possible by using less electricity consuming parts and methods.

The target audience for the product would be the manufacturers, this is because they would be using the product and would want to make profit with it. The target audience for the promotional site would be European investors and future customers, this is because if the site promotes the company and products well enough it could lead to some foreign business men investing into our ever growing company.

The budget for this project would be in the region of £100,000, the size of the budget indicates how high of a standard we expect the website to be.

We would expect the website to be completed in 3 months, this is because we need the website to be live as soon as possible and we thought that 3 months was a very reasonable time in which to complete the task.