Corleone Diaries 16/12/2009 WB

Today we had our review meeting for stage 3, User Requirements with Derek. This involved reviewing our Updated Project Plan, Use Case Diagram, Use Case Details, Game design artwork, Storyboard and Game Prototype. The overall outcome of the meeting was very good as all the Corleone team had put a lot of time and effort into doing as good a job on the project as we possibly could and this was reflected in the scores we achieved. I was really proud of the fact that both Ashley and Mike received distinctions from Derek for their Artwork and Prototype in relation to the ‘Space Invader’ game we are working on. Both lads thoroughly deserve the distinctions and when you see the game up to this point, you will understand why, it is fantastic, they have put so much of their selves into this project (ideas, conceptions, originality) along with added time and effort. Così saluto i miei due Don di persona per un lavoro estremamente bene fatto, lei entrambi lo merita. (So I salute my two fellow Dons for a job extremely well done, you both deserve it.)

Reflecting upon this stage 3 task and as Project manager for it, I felt that I neglected to delegate and split the project up at the beginning as well as I should have done. Although this did not detract us from doing the project really well, I feel on reflection that it would have worked even better if certain elements had been broken down into smaller manageable portions. This I will take on board and if I am project leader again will implement into another stage of the project.

At tea break our Corleone team had a discussion on what ideas we had for an end game sequence, Mike suggested adding a smoking effect to the gun picture, I suggested a video sequence with an U.S. army being led by George Bush, Tony Blair, Simon Cowell, Len Goodman, Piers Morgan and Margaret Thatcher, with the caption
‘If you thought that lot were bad, LOOK WHOS COMING NOW’.
Ideas also talked about were for ‘Win Game’ ‘High Score’ ‘Power Ups’ and actual audio music. These will be discussed, reviewed and decided upon later and I will blog and let you know what we have decided, when we have made our choice.