Success Criteria

• I can explain the history of storyboards

• I can create my own storyboard

Why it's important to storyboard your video game

When your mind's buzzing with a video game idea, it's tempting to dive headfirst into the game design process. But, if you haven't created some guiding design documents, you risk getting yourself in a muddle. As with everything in life, having a plan is going to make the whole process a lot easier. That's where storyboarding comes in.

Storyboarding is where you take your groundbreaking gameplay ideas and reproduce them in a visual storytelling format. It's super useful when your game design has lots of steps or focuses on a particular visual presentation. Pretty quickly, you'll have a solid overview of your game design – before you dive into production or prototyping.

TEKS 4A    (4) Creativity and innovation--emerging technologies.

(A) evaluate how changes in technology throughout history have impacted various areas of study;

Success Criteria

I can compare storyboards

Summarize: The concept, process, person, story, or material learned. Share and compare. Students can complete this individually or in teams. Assign groups to the beginning, middle, or end of a process or concept and then connect all the maps together for a full vision of the topic. Ask all students or teams to draw the steps, then rotate pictures and have someone else provide the captions. 

Break it down: Sequence any idea. Give students sentence starters and/or key vocabulary words they need to include in their storyboard. Or provide all the pictures, and have students put them in the right order and then summarize each step. 

AT THE END OF A LESSON OR UNIT

Wrap up a lesson with a quick storyboard exit ticket, or use the storyboard format to help students outline a more substantial summative assessment. Students can also use a storyboard to break down a big project into steps, noting deadlines as well as potential obstacles to completion. Have them post their project deadline storyboards in the room and also text a picture of it to a guardian or peer for added accountability.  

Reflect: Ask students, “What did you learn: Tell the story of what you learned today/this unit.” “What was the topic, what’s super-clear for you, and what do you need to be clarified so you can better understand tomorrow?”

Predict: Ask, “What happens next? Make predictions on how this concept applies to future learning; outline what happens next in a story/process.”

Share: Tell students to show their understanding.  

StoryboardThat Compare and Contrast On-Line Template