PPJ #9: em
Em Covolesky, PPJ #9 (June 13, 2024)
What Went Right:
The art direction and art quality: The artists sat down and thoroughly visualized our art style for the 2D and 3D assets. All the artists produced amazing sprites and textures; I’m so proud of us. I’m especially proud of my sprites and concept work as I further advanced my conceptualization skills and began my pixel art journey. If time allowed, I would just spend ten weeks working on Sickle and making him the goodest boy he is meant to be!
Marketing: This was my first time taking on a marketing role, and I was nervous. I’m chronically online, but not in the way of knowing how to advertise; I can’t even promote my editing account decently. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how easily marketing came to me, especially running the website! I loved creating the pages and designing the website in our style. My favorite part had to be making our team logo and our About page; not only is it comical, but it matches our team brand (braindead students = skeletons).
Team Relationships: I’m extremely grateful for the people on our team! We all meshed well, and we built our friendships as we built our game. I’m proud of all of us, and I can’t wait to work with some of them again for the Senior Project!
What Went Wrong:
Time Management: One of the biggest obstacles to our success was our lack of proper time management. We didn’t utilize the ClickUp until later on in the project, and most of our deadlines were down to the wire. This became very stressful and kept us on our toes 24/7.
Communication: Another large obstacle was some members’ lack of communication. This led to several miscommunications about tasks and goals for the week, which added undue stress to the team.
Man Down: Unfortunately, one of our two programmers was down for the majority of our project. While we are so happy to have her back, it did impact the amount of work we could do with only one programmer.
Lessons Learned:
Set hard deadlines and utilize a time management tool early on in production!
Meet as often as possible and communicate with others!
Don’t be afraid to ask for assistance, especially if more than one person is involved in a role!