Group Work PDP

Personal Development Planning

What the work was:

The task that we where set as a group was to identify the mechanics from a computer game and implement them into a board game. First off as a group we decided to make a list of possible games that we could turn into a board game.

We narrowed the list down to two possible games, Sonic and Dead Space. We decided on Dead Space as we all liked the game and the idea of turning that into a board game.

Next we identified the core mechanics of the game to begin assembling the ideas for the board game. We identified the main mechanics where:

-Movement
-Conflict
-Looting
-Objectives
-survival

Next off we split the work load amongst the group so to achieve maximum efficiency in completing this project to the deadline.

My job was to create the Playing cards, the tokens and the manual. I used Photoshop to create the items and later printed them off to use with our board.

Reflection and issues identified

I fell that the project was a success and we achieved most of the goals we set out to achieve, such as:

-having a prototype board
-having most of the playing equipment created
-having a fairly refined set of rules

I do feel thought that we could have made better use of the time that we where given, that we did not make fantastic use of the holiday time we had during the project and that there was not a great deal of communication during holiday and project itself. This if believe was the main issue and could be dealt with for our next project as I feel we could have achieved more if we had made a lot better use of the time that we had and if communications where better through out the project.
Plan of action

My plan of action for future projects would be to make sure that we have a schedule for the project so that we know when we will meet up and at what time.

Another improvement I would suggest would be to improve our communications during projects, several ways this could be done is by either meeting up on face book at certain times and maybe days, another one would be to possibly use Skype or some other form of online communications, or even just to use texts messages or phone calls.

The last thing that could be improved is making sure that everyone know exactly what job they are doing so to avoid people getting overloaded with work, this issue I believe was caused by lack of communication so to avoid this in future again would be to improve our communication as a group.

Conclusion

As I stated earlier I believe that the overall project went well but I believe that there is still room for improvement on the development side of it, because of the few issues we had when working on this project.

So my conclusion is that the project overall was a success but there could have just been a few improvements on the development, planning and communications as a group.