This week saw the introduction of the Team Project module, with me finding out who I would be working with and information on deadlines and marking schemes. I attended an hours briefing session Tuesday along with our first in-class group meeting with Claire at 13:45, then at the end of the week on Friday had a short team meeting with Brian and Phil.
My group has the title 'Team Fable' and I'm working with fellow students Kyle Cherry, Lewis Morgan, Adam Parker and Stephen Austin. We've all worked together with each other at some point during previous units, therefore we're all quite comfortable as a team for the final project.
We've decided that as three of the five members in the group had very similar project ideas in the Project Skills unit, we're basing our final project around those questions. We're hoping to advance NPCs as they relate to game narratives, and to further ways of engaging players through these NPCs.
So far we've made a good start on work and have performed numerous tasks to help push the project forward. I personally have set up and designed the team blog, begun producing the teams 'Gantt Chart' and collected all of the data from the team meetings that took place during the week. Other members of the team have begun researching into our chosen subject area and have posted up their findings on the blog.
Communication between team members has been excellent so far with frequent meet-ups and messages over Windows Live Messenger sent. An advantage we have is that four out of our five team members live together in the student dorms making team meet-ups a very simple affair.
Next week we plan to have made a start on out Project Design Document, of which is handed in on the 9th of March. The next diary will have more information regarding our project, the questions we hope to answer and a reflection on work done during the week.
To view the Team Fable project blog, click here.
To view all of the Team Project diary entries, click here.
