This week has been a little difficult but informative. After receiving feedback from our lovely mentors me and Gina have continued to work on researching game mechanics. It has been a challenge to re-evaluate our game and define it once and for all but we feel like we’re getting closer and are remaining positive.

 

Talking to the mentors was amazing! Before the meeting I know I was a little scared to meet all our mentors at once but they were really calming and insightful. They really gave us a lot of necessary feedback to improve our project and got us re-considering important questions like…

 

What platform are we going to use?

Should the mechanics be decided before the narrative? (Spoiler! Yes)

What art style appeals to a large age demographic?

 

And these are just some of the thought-provoking questions they gave us.

 

So for this week, we decided to take their advice and try and get those pesky game mechanics sorted! “How?” you might ask. By doing the best research possible and playing a lot of games. Me and Gina played a variety of co-op games like ‘It Takes Two’ and after we decided mobile was our preferred platform, we looked into Android/iOS games for inspiration. This was incredibly fun and gave us a lot of great references.   

 

As we’re learning more about our project, we’re continuing to refine our work plan and are keeping up to date with our tasks thanks to our project management system Jira. 

 

What we’re working on/what’s not working

 

• Establishing co-op game mechanics

 

How we’re feeling 

 

• I’m excited and eager to start creating but there has been a little bit of frustration as we continue to decide on the mechanics. We don’t want to rush it but we also don’t want to fall behind so we’re trying to establish the right balance. 

 

• I think the meeting with the mentors has highlighted the importance of discussion and I plan on asking questions whenever possible to mentors and fellow/previous finalists to learn from their workflow and to build a support network. 

 

• I think the upcoming tribe advisor’s meeting will be a great opportunity for more useful feedback and I can’t wait to meet everyone there!

That's all for this week. Thanks for reading!