PFD200 Professional Development Self Blog

A Successful Failure This is the 2nd blog in the series where I actively talk about the progress I'm making on my chosen professional skill titled, "Game Development through Team Collaboration". This week will go over the initial week of the team-project, how it succeeded and how it ultimately failed. Game Idea Development Coming up with a Game Idea At the beginning of the week, me and the team got together for a meeting where we brainstormed different ideas for what we could develop. Before coming up with pure game ideas, we thought of conditions that we would want for these games that include: • Game must be estimated to be completed within 6 months. • Simple concept for the game. • Game must be 3-Dimensional or 2.5D at a minimum. With these conditions in mind, we began brainstorming genres for the game, and following up with that we came up with gameplay ideas. Some ideas were created solely by a single person, while other ideas were team-built, but they all conclusive...

Introduction to the Professional Development Skill Welcome to the first entry of my weekly blog, spanning over a minimum period of 2 months where I will develop my chosen professional skill and present it in the form of a concluding "mini project". Chosen Skill Firstly, the chosen skill I have chosen to professionally develop is: Game Development through Team Collaboration Justification Developing this skill would be significant with relevance to my career choice. Personally, I want to be a games programmer as part of a studio of game developers, where I can specialise in programming while collaborating with my peers. This means that if I spend a minimum of 2 months developing this skill, I will be significantly more equipped for the industry compared to if I didn't pursue this whatsoever. I believe this will be difficult, with the main reason being that this skill can easily be divided into 2 sub-skills. Not only do I need to be efficient at collaborating in a team, but ...