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[levelthreehooligan]

Team Meeting with Adam

This was the last meeting we have with Adam before we start Phase 4, and it was basically to lay down some guidelines for how team work would have to be presented by the end of the semester.

We were told not to go for a vertical slice, but to attempt to make a complete a game as possible, even to be able to get it to an Alpha stage that could then be put up on Steam Greenlight for example.

“dont make something that doesn’t work” Well i mean yeah that’s the idea mate.

If there’s anything that we could outsource, such as Music or Sound effects, that we should try and get that outsourced to reduce the strain put on the team where we can.

It was also a concern that we would muddle the boundaries of who’d done what in the grand scheme of things, so we’d have to make it really obvious who’s work was who’s. 

We are to make the GDD as useful as possible for the second semester, and less as a document that we made for just the sake of submitting something.

[levelthreehooligan]

1-3 with Andy

When we came to Andy as a group I think we were actually pretty excited to talk to someone who hadn’t ever seen our project before, and could therefore tell us if what we were pursuing just wasn’t going to work out.

Right off the bat he told us that we really needed to be more visual with our work so far, as everything we’d brought to him was mostly written ideas and large sheets of paper that connected all of our topics together. He wanted to see some physical presence of our ideas, which I’d kind of started doing by modelling and printing a Building Plant Pot, and starting to sketch out some ideas of what the games would look like.

Overall he was satisfied that we could mesh our ideas into a comprehensive idea and that we should just get on with it.#

He suggested that we go and watch some media that utilises our themes in similar ways that we want to, to look at the Near future instead of the ‘Future Fantastic’ that we see so often in sci-fi films, and to start making collages of images that we liked.

[levelthreehooligan]

1-1 with Adam

Today I had my one to one with Adam about moving forward with the project, which in this case was going to be one of the games that we’d come up with as a team (Jess, James).

There were concerns that James was attempting to monopolise the team by inserting himself into a managerial role, but Jess and I aren’t worried so much about that now.

It came up that I needed to demonstrate how my Ideas connected to my research and to work on linking all of the phases together, which I should do by making a quick video about that.

It was also a point that I look up previous successful tycoon and Point and click games, to see which ones worked and which ones didn’t.

I should also be user testing my blog, to make sure that it is clear about where the user needs to go and that everything can be found, I believe this can be remedied through the use of a navigation page.

He also said he wanted to see: 

> some character iteration and development, telling him Why these things existed

> A Concise presentation of my 3 ideas and my input, how the “GDD” would work and how I’d show my input.

> how would we code the document to make sure it’s clear who did what?

> Would the GDD even be looked over by a AAA studio in this way?

>Would it be developed by a Co-Op, Web or Opensource instead?