Industry Practice - Project Mangement

 

Project Management

Discord Server

As the project started , we created an entire server to talk into on Discord allowing us to create a private area for ourselves for us to share all of our work and communicate with each other once the Friday class was over. We used this server mainly as the source of placing all of our concept art and communicating for feedback which we keep organised thanks to the separate channels .

During the time period of the project after Christmas , our team slowly started to drop out and become unresponsive with the rest us making the project ten times harder to work on with more work being piled on. This point was evident when it would only be myself , Jess and Katie would speak the most during this time so we decided to create an entire private channel with just ourselves inside to work as no one else wanted to contribute which u can see from all of our blogs.

Class

Whilst also having the discord server open to us , we would also meet up during our Friday class to work on more tasks with more physical support and to have meetings with our tutor based on details that would be discussed above and below in different sections.

Roles

During the start of the project , we gave ourselves roles on our teams discord server on what we were originally working on showcased by the screenshot of my profile. Due to multiple issues with our groups , we ended up having to change a lot of our roles around so these were the final ones.

Edward : Backgrounds

Jess : Character Concept Artist , Sprite Artist and Coder

Katie : Director , Script Writer & Coder

Me : UI Artists & Coder

Examples of Team Meetings

Whilst being able to have team meetings inside of the class during our lesson , we held additional meetings via our discord team server in our voice channel. These meetings were mainly held during times that was needed and suited the time for all of our team whilst these meetings in discord were not weekly compared to the class ones we usually held these meetings in support of working on the coding aspect of our game so we can all work on our personal setups and communicate between each other.

Screenshots of meetings

OneDrive for our Group

To make the workload less stressful on us whilst Me , Jess and Katie were working on the construction of our game , Katie created a colour coded OneDrive for us too us during this phase as we were able to share our files amongst ourselves due to the facts of having issues with originally sending images through our teams discord however the quality of the images would become worse and compress.

Distribution of Work between the Team

Whilst during the very start of the project , we started off with originally 6 members which seemed like a blessing to us at the start as we would have been able to manage the amount of work each person had to create and make it easier on everyone's plates. That would have been the case however half of the group stopped answering our messages or even turn up to the lesson so we could not discuss any of the work we wanted them to have finished by the deadline given to us by our director Katie.

This entire process started to become irritating to work on the project with people on our team who would not even engage as we had someone in our group who dropped out of the entire course without even telling us and the only work we received back was based off old sketch's from months ago, another person who ended up working on something completely different without warning and finally the last person never turned up to lessons or answered our messages when we needed work back.

From this situation me , Jess and Katie had to split the remaining work between us all adding more to what we originally planned for just so we was able to finish a game in the end as we thought that we would be the only group in our class would end up not having a game. We fixed these issues by cutting unwanted assets from being fully finished , revisiting the script cutting it down and working on documents together that we all needed at the same time.

Showcase of me , Jess and Katie all working together in our own channel due to the rest of our group no longer responding.