Friday 8 June 2012

Reflection on group work

Being a small manageable group, all has gone well.
Managing my own time has been a little rocky and difficult recently, it's been the hardest part of this group work - which is a seriously good thing! Working in this tight group has been effortless and very enjoyable. We all have a say and are heard; shaping the project as a functioning group, and not a dictatorship.

Simone has been absolutely at the forefront of research, and has really excelled. She's fantastic at doing broad, specific and niche research, adding to the project directly (not just ticking boxes for projects).
She's also created some wonderful concepts that have really shaped the feel and scale of the setting. Something Simone has also taken up was the backstory - really fleshing out the character development and pushing for details that can feed designs. I'm really impressed with this, and after sitting with her and going through the whole plot - typing it up and making substantial adjustments we now have something concrete that we're both very happy with. I have absolutely no qualms with Simone and I think we're going to make a great duo going forward.

Mathias has worked with us well - researching the technical aspects we will later run into within the cut scenes. He's also added a lot of effort in shaping the puzzles and interaction with me (over beers).
I'm sorry to see him go, as I think we could've accomplished much more detail and technical prowess in this project with him on-board.

We were like Charlie's angels, but are now Cagney and Lacey :/
Still awesome, but one man down.

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