Design Your Own Video Game (Writing Project)

It’s a given, students love video games. What students may not know is that a successful video game has many elements of literature: a good plot line, interesting characters, a clear, define problem and an eventual solution. In this resource students will be asked to design their own video game. Even if they are not a gamer, they will still have success. Students will create a name and cover design for their video game and product description.

Included in this resource:

** Brainstorming Page

** Game Genre

** Problem-Solution

** Setting Page

** Plot Page

** Character Development (Includes protagonist, antagonist, and minor characters)

** Identifying the Conflict

** Identifying the Theme

** Product description graphic organizer

** Product description writing page

** Product cover template

** Grading rubric

** Topic sentence guide

** Transition list

** ALL PAGES COME IN BLANK TEMPLATE OR SCAFFOLDED for differentiation

** Color version available too

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