Great Example of team usage

well seeing as we would like to incorporate teamwork into the game and while playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 it is possible to see the benefits of team work such as being to perform great combos to overcome adversaries especially the final boss in arcade a without the team this would be an impossible feat.

Gantt Chart Complete

Well although we finished it earlier i though i may as well tell the world about it being complete so that means were another step closer in out project after allocating times of when things will actually be completed.

The Task List Scenario

Today the team, well the team that turned up, got to work on a task list. This list determined the tasks to do to develop our game along with the length each task would take. We then began work on a Gantt chart which took quite a while. Other groups also got to work on the Gantt charts but one group in particular, the members were split. One sat in his hoodie and watched some wrestling, another tried to work on the chart and the other argued that he was the best and insisted that his bar chart was in fact a Gantt chart.

This is the latest of his arguments and he's worse than Jeremy Paxman is when he wants an answer. Hopefully someday he will shut up.

Paxman is determined to get an answer no matter how loud he has to get.

Dan

ideas for our game

Well as in our project outline in Tuesdays lesson we decided our game would focus on objectives that require co-operation between a team of individuals. For an idea I though that if the game would be an fps that it may be a co-operative only game in which the leader of the group would hand out resources to each team member so they can purchase weapons and equiptment in a way in which the team could benefit.


If anyone has ideas to share feel free to comment :-)

Concept Art: Robot Dude

Hey guys, it's Fasil here.... pahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! What a joke that was, Fasil will probably never post on here. He was there when we created this blog but he was too busy texting someone and not paying attention as per usual. Anyway, some concept art for if we go for a futuristic setting with a guy I named Robot Dude.

Robot Dude - a dude that's a robot

Dan

The PERT Song

I was walking down the street today after History & Analysis and just so happened to bump into an old friend of mine. "Hello there," he said, "fancy a cuppa?" I accepted his offer and went round to his house, before congratulating him on his Brit Award last night. "Well, I think Robbie is to thank for that. It's not as if Mark or Jason or the other one do anything." We began chatting and then he mentioned PERT. I thought that it rang a bell and then I remembered what it was. He told me that he couldn't remember the formula and even when he checked it, he still got different answers everytime he tried so we wrote a song together:

Fours times as likely, adding the optimist, to get this right you, just add a pessimist. Then divide by 6.


Anyway, we will begin working on our GDD soon. I actually wrote a template but as always forgot where I saved it. Since our game is going to be team-based, we need to think of some proper gameplay and then we can get cracking on it.

Me and my good friend. His mum is checking up on us.

Dan

First Step To The First Project

Today the team, well 2 of them anyway, defined the project scope and objectives. Along with this we also defined what the deliverables throught the project are and the strengths and weaknesses of the project.

Remember everyone if Eamonn Holmes is around your project is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Abdul , Dan

Test Drive Unlimited 2

So I've been playing TDU2 this weekend and with the many server issues that occured upon the release the Eden games have done a good job getting the game up and running however there is still a few issues that they are working such as the clutch control as when playing with automatic gear change gamers would have notice how at the beginning of every race you are guaranteed to have a bad start

Abdul 

Death to Guitar Hero

So Activision has killed off a major franchise. While there were too many Guitar Hero games, one wonders whether the music genre would be stronger and Guitar Hero still alive had Activision not ordered so many instalments of the game and from a consumer perspective - there is only so much plastic you can have in your house. Unless you are Katie Price. Not only have they axed Guitar Hero but also the other "Hero" games including Band Hero and DJ Hero. They've also got rid of other franchises and game studios in favour of Call of Duty and their partnership with Blizzard. While some may feel glad that Guitar Hero is no more, it is a shame that over 500 people no longer have their jobs and suggests that the industry is in a more fragile state than ever. My hope is that Activision publishes the next Call of Duty only for it to be a dud and not sell, leaving them nothing else to lean back on. Of course this won't happen.

The problem Activision has is they can't control their human resources properly. Whenever a fresh pair of eyes enters the fray, the evil overlords at the top quickly swoop down and remove the eagerness of change. Just look at their little battle with the guys at Infinity Ward, when they attempted something new they were instantly booted out. The industry needs innovation and Activision refuses to cooperate. My hope is that by the time I graduate from this course that executives have seen the light, they will be keen to look at new talent and embrace them with open arms to lead the industry forward rather than living in this horrible dark time of sequel after sequel. Unfortunately I don't think this is going to happen.

Guitar Hero is no more

Dan

Leaving the Past Behind

Some of you may know me from a certain popular blog here on the internet. I won't say which one since I'm still a bit upset over having to leave it behind and it really is still sinking in that I will no longer be able to attend book signings, record songs in the studio with my good friends Gary and Selena, or even star in films alongside the Chuckle Brothers.

On the bright side I did learn many things last semester. I learned how to run a successful blog (but seriously though, why are Indians obsessed with the Art Attack Guy?), manage my time wisely in order to create a presentation and write an essay, and just how important all the small factors in Project Management can affect a project in so many different ways. I am sure that my learning will continue this semester, as will my workload. Just looking at the syllabus I am quite intrigued by paper prototyping and learning about some legal issues. I am also looking forward to coming up with a new game idea and having to incorporate aspects of Project Management into it should be a great challenge. And of course the thing I am looking forward to most is getting all the work out of the way for the deadline... on my birthday. Of course we will have to wait and see what the future holds but I'm sure that good things will be on the horizon.

What does the future have in store?

Dan.

First Day On the Job

Hello, we are Team 1 for CVG 1, Project Management 2. Over the next few weeks we will be blogging about what we are learning on the course and how our progress on our Game Design Document is going.

Abdul, Dan, Fasil