David Monteleone, Week 5 Journal PPJ, Blog post 2

GDD Draft, Status Report, Team Setup, Midterm, Website updates, Task and Asset List

Content with Hours (Examples included):

This week I was tasked with carrying out the paper work. I was tasked with completing a GDD draft. In this draft I went through and cleaned a path so that the group can easily refer to the document in order to get specific details about the goal of the project as a whole. My goal was to make a document where if this game gets picked up in the second quarter, the group that joins us can easily read the document and gain a clear understanding of how to fit into the development of the game. This took the majority of my time, but is critical to get right so that the team can refer to the document and not get confused.

 (6 hrs)

Alongside this was extra team management and setup tasks. I further updated the website to contain the necessary information for our midterm organization review. I added a link to directly download our latest build too.

I went ahead and created a Slack group that the group will be utilizing as our primary means of communication during the development of the game.

I created and now manage the Google Spreadsheet that contains the status report information. This was compiled into a quick PowerPoint presentation or class.

I also put together a rough task and asset list.

(4 hrs)

I attempted to further develop the mini game, or boss level, Slapz, but ran into a time issue when my professor for CS 380 changed the date of our midterm. I needed to stop working on Slapz and turn my attention to studying.

(1 hr)

Content Positive (Duplicate hours from above):

-          GDD has the ground work laid out. The group can now refer to this for overall game design.(6 hrs)

-          The group has a setup management system and lines of communication(4 hrs)

-          The website is updated to be current and contains our current version for download(1 hr)

Content Negative

-          Due to a midterm rescheduling in my other class, I was unable to work on the Slapz mini game as much as I wanted to.

Total Hours for the week: 9 hrs

Tags: Programming, Website, GDD, Week 4, Week 5, David Monteleone, PPJ, Status Report, Task and Asset list