Writing Pitch Docs and Exec Docs - Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing - page 25

3.4 Exercises
1. Take three of your favorite video games, from separate genres and audiences
if possible, and write an executive summary for each. Focus on the game's
core concepts; “sell� the product and do not exceed 50 words in your opening
(short) summary. Test your short summary on a game-familiar audience and
see if they can name the game from your concise description (leave out any
specific character names, e.g., “Samus Aran�).
2. Draft an original game concept and write a pitch document for it. If you're
feeling frisky, create concept art or design diagrams and embed them in rele-
vant sections of the document. Frame your competition analysis as a compar-
ative table using at least three games created in the last five years.