To all those reading this blog over the course of the next 12 weeks myself and two others are designing a game for a University module called 'Games Project : Design & Planning'. This module is the first stage to a full year module called 'Games Project' and in the second trimester each group will use their design document and research to create a full working game. Each week this blog will be updated with our team meetings, ideas, concept art and our research. It will track our progress from the start of our design process through to the final touches and overall completion of our project.
Week 1 of this process began with the creation of our groups so that we would know who we would be working with for the next 24 weeks of work. Once our group had formed we had our first group meeting and discussed some main topics we wished to begin or complete for the meeting next week.
. Plan a team name
. Assign the team Blog to a team member
. Assign the Gantt Chart to a team member
. Assign the task of meeting minutes to a team member
. Discuss our game ideas and what genre/platform/style we will be using
After compiling this list of on our minutes we then had a meeting with our lecturer and presented what we would hope to achieve for the following week and how we could accomplish each of these goals. Throughout the upcoming 12 weeks our lecturer would play the part of an outside company or developer and would give us advice or suggest changes if he felt we were potentially biting off more than we could chew.
Last year we completed a Games Design module so I feel that all of the information and the process we used during that module can be replicated in this module and that will give us a good standing for this design process this year. We will need to bear in mind that this game will be created next year so it has to be realistic and not something that is beyond our skill level and time scale.
Last year we completed a Games Design module so I feel that all of the information and the process we used during that module can be replicated in this module and that will give us a good standing for this design process this year. We will need to bear in mind that this game will be created next year so it has to be realistic and not something that is beyond our skill level and time scale.
Overall week 1 went well and seemed to give us a good start with our design process so hopefully week 2 will continue to keep this strong start going.
