Week 2 - Game Design & Plan

Previous week John told us that from this week onward lecture start at 10 AM rather than 9 AM as per the scheduled timetable. This is because people turning up late, telling excuses like woke up late, miss the train, etc. also it is most convenient for everyone. Lecture started at sharp 10 and the purpose of this to give a short presentation by each team about their own game. We presented our game ideas and progression as a team, where two other teams and John were audience whom made some good suggestions. 

After the lecture John allocated a time schedule for each team to meet him up in his office. Our team got an hour to spare before the meeting with john. During that time we discussed more about the game ideas, when/where the game need to be set whether if it's in past or future, how realistic can it be, etc. We headed back to John's office and continued our informal discussion. He suggested us to split each daily hour in to three 4 hour segments so we can do our work more conveniently and effectively well within time. He warned us otherwise it will end up lack of time and project will burn out due to work overload.

Personally i think it is a very good idea especially when working within a project team but my dedication to full time employment doesn't allow me to do so. I am working 4 and half days and at this situation i am sure that i can't provide a quality work even by a margin of 25%. I discussed my situation with john because i don't like to give any pressure to my colleges in the future because of my incomplete work whenever they need it. The only option is to drop back to part time and i told them that i will think about it as soon as possible.

Discussion completed after an hour so we headed back to the lab. Stephen and Andy co-worked on the Game Audience & Competitor Analysis report since the last week and Stephen provided me a copy of the first draft. All we know by now is each member need to carry out certain tasks but not decided yet 'who do what'!! Andy updated the team website and said he will complete the 2nd draft of the report by next week.

We called off the day :)