Roadmap & Milestone Planning

• Outlined key objectives and segmented them into attainable milestones by crafting a comprehensive roadmap.
• Engaged in in-depth discussions with the development team to establish a realistic timeline, ensuring resource allocation and flexibility for project adjustments.
• Assessed the development pipeline for potential bottlenecks and dependencies to maintain smooth progression.
• Guided decision-making through meticulous risk assessments and leveraging an understanding of team capabilities, ensuring the project stayed on a realistic and successful path.

Agile Workflow Management

• Maintained oversight of the product backlog and monitored sprint progress, ensuring a cohesive development process.
• Facilitated the adoption of Codecks for project tracking, providing comprehensive training and documentation to streamline team engagement with the tool.
• Established the framework for project structure and team dynamics, each team member with clear roles and accountability.
• Integrated an Agile methodology tailored to our team's unique qualities and requirements, specifically employing Scrum principles with a designated Product Owner.

Game Design & Engine Work

• Documentation: Systematically documented game design features, detailing task specifications and completion criteria.
• Narrative Design: Collaborated with the Game Design team to enhance narrative development, formulating engaging quests and writing dialogue and backstory elements.
• Programming: Developed and programmed interactive features and user interfaces, including an AI letter-writing system, menus (main, options, pause), as well as an end-screen with trigger functionality.
• Content integration: Executed the integration of diverse content into Unreal Engine, ranging from 3D models and quest elements to dialogue text and voice-over files.

• Team roles: Redistribute responsibilities among the team if necessary!
• Team atmosphere: Encourage open communication among unsatisfied team members and all involved parties.

• Game Design workflow: Increasing team-wide gameplay discussions leads to the generation of better ideas.
• Decision making: Enhance department leads' involvement in critical decision-making processes.

Roadmap & Milestone Planning

• Outlined key objectives and segmented them into attainable milestones by crafting a comprehensive roadmap.
• Engaged in in-depth discussions with the development team to establish a realistic timeline, ensuring resource allocation and flexibility for project adjustments.
• Assessed the development pipeline for potential bottlenecks and dependencies to maintain smooth progression.
• Guided decision-making through meticulous risk assessments and leveraging an understanding of team capabilities, ensuring the project stayed on a realistic and successful path.

Agile Workflow Management

• Maintained oversight of the product backlog and monitored sprint progress, ensuring a cohesive development process.
• Facilitated the adoption of Jira and Confluence for project tracking, providing comprehensive training and documentation to streamline team engagement with the tool.
• Established the framework for project structure and team dynamics, each team member with clear roles and accountability.
• Integrated an Agile methodology tailored to our team's unique qualities and requirements, specifically employing Scrum principles with a designated Product Owner.

Metric Tracking & Conflict Management

• I transferred project data from Jira into Google Sheets, enabling the crafting of tailored diagrams that visually represent key project metrics. This integration facilitated the creation of dynamic burndown charts and work velocity graphs, offering a clear, real-time perspective on the project's progress and momentum.
• Conflict management: My goal is to maintain a good working atmosphere within the team. I've instituted one-on-one meetings and retrospective discussions. These initiatives are complemented by conflict mediation sessions, where I facilitate dialogue among all parties involved in a dispute, aiming to reach amicable resolutions and maintain a harmonious work environment.

• Backlog workflow: Only specific roles (Producer/Product Owner) create story tasks → maintains good project overview.
• Clearly define team roles: Establish distinct rights and responsibilities.

• Work pipelines: Streamline workflows for repetitive tasks, including Game Design and coding.
• Retrospectives: Establish framework to suggest improvements at all times.

Game / Narrative / Sound Design

• Documentation: Diligently crafted comprehensive Game Design documents (GDDs) and Milestone presentations to articulate game design features.
• Narrative Design: Conceived and penned the game's complete narrative arc, including all character dialogues and dual ending scenarios.
• Sound Design: Curated the game's auditory experience, from its soundtracks to sound effects, and adeptly integrated them using Audacity for editing purposes.

Programming & Content Integration

• Programming: Engineered dynamic interactive elements and user interfaces, encompassing a tutorial overlay, navigational menus, and end-game sequences.
• Content integration: Executed the integration of a myriad of assets into the Godot Engine, including sprites, visual effects, and a full spectrum of auditory elements from music to sound effects and voice-overs.

• Vision keeping: Appoint a Vision Keeper to maintain the game's vision throughout production.
• Playtesting: Regular playtesting is invaluable when seeking gameplay improvements.

• Time for communication: Plan to allocate a generous amount of time for communication, perhaps more than initially anticipated.
• Prioritize core gameplay: Focus on refining and perfecting the core gameplay experience.