Goals

My goal is to create an instruction set that will help the reader learn how to play carrom in the easiest way possible. I plan on making it easy and short for the reader so that they can focus more on the experience.

Brief Analysis of Intended Readers

• These instructions will help the reader understand the game easily, and will properly state the rules.

• The only thing that the reader needs to know before being able to use these instruction is to know what the materials are, so that they are not focused at what the instructions refer to.

• The parts that the players need to use are most likely provided with the game, but there are other accessories that need may need to get.

• The materials needed include the game board, the spacer, the striker piece, and the game pieces. Since it is a 2-4 player game, you will need more than themselves to play the game.

• When players are ready to start, they will need to follow the game rules, and start with the breaker.

• This will mostly likely not need any troubleshooting, because it is a rule based game. The player will need to learn the rules properly, and sort it out themselves.

   

Two Comparable Wiki-Hows

http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Carrom

• Has great graphics that explains much more than in words

• Has minimal instructions, but basics are covered

• Instructions are easy to understand

I really like the graphics that are provided by this authors, because they really capture the experience of this game. I would also like to incorporate graphics like this wiki-how to make it easier for readers to understand. I would prefer to be detailed on the instructions, because they completely left out the rules of the game.

http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Carrom-for-Beginners

• Only one graphic that is important

• Lacks in showing the movement of the game

• The instructions are hard to understand

I like that graphics that the author provided, because it shows the starting setup of the game perfectly, but lack the movements that are important. The instructions are very hard to read, so I would like to make my instructions easy for the reader to understand.

Research

The research that I will be doing for my instruction set is the different ways that people already play the game. I know that there are many different ways to play this game, so I would like to offer my readers more choices than just the basic one. I will also research the rules of the game, because they change depending on the situations. So I will try to list all if possible, or just the most relevant ones that are encountered most.

Draft of Procedure

1. Setup

2. Rules

3. Players

4. Winning/Losing

5. Different play

Potential Graphic

This is just an example of a graphic that I will create. I will either generated this on a computer or take an actual photo of it.