{"id":2013,"date":"2025-03-14T19:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:52:19","slug":"week-2-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/2025\/03\/14\/week-2-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Lecture 1 Monday (3\/2\/25) &#8211; Project management talk with Paul MacGillivray notes :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Breaking down variables into deliverables and tasks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deliverables &gt; task 1,2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create new character &gt; concept art &gt; 3d modelling &gt; rig\/animate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Examples task on Miro board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-tiny-font-size wp-elements-2\"><strong>Exercise 1 \u2013 deliverables based on food meals<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Deliverable 1 \u2013 Make pesto pasta\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Task 1 \u2013 boil pasta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Task 2 \u2013 Fry vegetables<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Task 3 \u2013 Mix it together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">User Stories : <a href=\"https:\/\/slickplan.com\/blog\/user-story\">https:\/\/slickplan.com\/blog\/user-story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As a user role, I want what do you want? so that how does this benefit you\/the business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a new user, I want the option to limit how many emails I receive from this app so that I don\u2019t get overwhelmed with junk mail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a player, I want to solve the murder so that I can feel a sense of accomplishment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">Every single storefront tracks user retention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As a game developer it is not only your job to entertain the user but to understand their pressure points and frustrations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This gives a basis for you to communicate priorities to your teammates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s a way to make sure that you play with your player rather than making unenjoyable art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">Takeaways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empathy and attention to detail are how we take our games from amateur to professional<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These things take time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will always have to iterate but it\u2019s easier to make minor tweaks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>than major changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Group Work<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Write out contingency plans for if each of your team members goes missing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Which of their tasks will you cut?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which of their tasks will you simplify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which of their tasks will you give to other team members?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">Write out a true minimum viable product<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is the bare minimum you can give and still have a functioning game loop?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go through each of the parts of the design doc and figure out what you would cut in an emergency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Decide amongst yourselves what conditions need to happen to switch to a minimum product<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is better to switch as early as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture 1 Monday (3\/2\/25) &#8211; Project management talk with Paul MacGillivray notes : Exercise 1 \u2013 deliverables based on food meals User Stories : https:\/\/slickplan.com\/blog\/user-story Every single storefront tracks user retention Takeaways Group Work Write out contingency plans for if each of your team members goes missing Write out a true minimum viable product Decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}