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Project Management tools

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 Project Management During Development: As we were starting to develop our idea's more and have something to make, we knew that we'd need some sort of way to track it all. So we looked around and had 2 main ways of keeping a track of progress. We mainly used microsoft teams to see how everything was going, and mark off what we needed done, and what was still yet to be done. Though right at the start, we ended up using Trello as a way to give everyone tasks which they could tick off when it was done. What is Trello: Trello is a work management tool which can be used in a variety of different situations. Managing work projects is mainly what it's used for, and it works very well for managing different roles within games development. It allows you to create lists and list off things which need to be done, which are being worked on and then which are complete. This is really useful for games development, as there are alot of different areas which have to be worked on at the sam...

Event write up

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Event Write up:  Our time at The Forum in Norwich was very informative and gave me a new insight to how alot of games are actually showed off, and how they gain popularity. We werent very used to doing this on the first day, but we each had out role and were there when people came up and asked about it, or if someone wanted to test our game. We had a computer infront of us with the game ready to go, and Daniel standing beside it to lead players through the game incase they were having difficulty playing. Me and the others were at the stand, talking about our parts which we did if people asked about it. Design Document:  Emillia created a Design Document which we used and gave people if they were curious about the development of our game. This document had the creation process of our game, and talked about how much it had really changed from it's original idea. Since our game idea had completely changed as we developed and got more idea's which we thought would be more fitting....