Dream Development

Last term the course was set an interesting project as part of our ‘Post Digital Analogue’ module. For this we had a total of twelve weeks to write a design document for a game of our making and then create a level/prototype/vertical slice of the game. However what made it interesting was the catch…we were not to make the game we had designed. Instead the design documents would be handed over to another team (of the lecturers choosing) and then we would make someone else’s.

I saw this as good practice to not only write a decent design document so that someone else could follow and then create, but to also follow the other teams document. Ironically something that had not been encouraged before in either college or the first year of University.

So with a team of four it was soon established that I would be the one organising the project and writing up the design document in the first half, I would then continue my role as project manager in the second half along with quality control. However during the development of the game we came across some interesting technical difficulties so I soon found myself helping out and contributing to more areas of development that I originally planned. I even learned some GML scripting as well! However the game would not have come together like it had without the hard work of the team and more importantly it wouldn’t look as good as it did without the dedicated artists Niomi and Beth.

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