Preparing for Presentation(Week 6)

It’s really difficult to get a good structure on a presentation and that is one of the things I have been working on this week. The power point presentation for GGC is something that is looming on the horizon and I am a bit nervous about it. I have been having some problems with the structure, what to say, what is important to mention and what will sell the game.

It is difficult to know how much you should explain and what is important to tell. It’s not just what you say but also what you show, how do you show off the work that has been done.

There is still a lot of work to do on the presentation but it is starting to become something cohesive. It will take practice, practice and practice before I will feel comfortable, but I have to make sure that I am well prepared. This is the background for the presentation as it stands now.

 

One of the things that is important is the way it all blends together and to have a smooth transition between slides. Since it is my first time with a power point presentation I find it a little bit challenging.

Role of a Producer (Week 1)

Hey there! it’s been a while since my last post and I will try and do one post every week now 🙂

This week I started a new course that is called “Big Game”, we have 10 weeks to do a game that will be presented on GGC(Gotland Game Conference) at the end of May. During this project I am going to be the producer which basically means that I will be  the one that knows everything about the process, thinks of everything that needs to be done and makes sure that people work and have fun while they are doing their work.

There is a lot to think about when you are the producer that I have not thought of and the pressure of doing well is always there. I think that the first week went well for our team but I felt that I could have done more. The things that I worked on was the design document, project plan and the scrum. This picture show the scrum we have in our office, each colour represents each individual person in the group(except the red and green one).

This system is really helpful to see how the week is going  which is way more fun to look at than the screen of a computer 😀

The project plan was something that I hadn’t done before and I had to think about a lot of things. When should things be done? What are the potential risks? and how do you plan on solving them? also the deadlines within the project. The thing I have learned by doing this plan is that if everything is written down, it becomes more real and people are more likely to follow it if it is on paper.

I could have handled a lot of things differently this week but it was a learning experience and I think that next week I will be more prepared for what I am suppose to do 🙂