What is Powerbound
​Role: Project Manager/ Sound Designer
Team: Seven core team members
Project Timeline: November 2016
​Engine: Unity 2D
Project Statistics
Main Tasks on Project
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Helped direct and lead the team in following the game vision, ensuring that all everyone stayed focused and motivated to deliver the best possible product.
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Used agile project management methodology to plan and schedule team member's work.
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Helped team members work as efficiently as possible, this included getting them coffees and meals when they were unable to them selves due to the time restrictions.
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Communicated with team members through hourly check ins to ensure everyone was up to date on the project status, and that the project was on track to finish within the given time.
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Through our team's hard work and dedication on the project, we were awarded the "Best Game" award by the industry judges at the end of the 48 hours.
Learning Outcomes & Personal Post Mortem
Project Gameplay Video
Top two learning outcomes and results:
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Playtesting of the Game
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​This one aspect of a Game Jam game that typically gets forgotten about, and this happened for us especially when it came to being able to play the game as one player.
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One thing that I would of changed to ensure that this didn't happen is to plan better with the programming team to ensure that even as a multiplayer game our designers could play the game as one person.
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Overall, this resulted in the team having not that much to test the game and how balanced it was. However, it was a great learning experience.
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Communication Amongst Team Members​
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Due to the short time that we had in the game jam, one thing we did not have time for was iteration of assets, and features.
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To ensure that every asset was added to the game and it was as polished a possible this required a large amount of communication between all disciplines.
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As the Project Manager I worked with the team to spear head the communication pipeline that we would use throughout production.
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This ensured that everyone on the team was up to date on the project status and design changes, so team members could accurately focus their time on all of the assets needed.
Super Game Brawl is a 2D 2v2 shared screen brawler. It features four unique playable characters, these consist of the Artist, Programmer, Level Designer, and Project Manager.
November 2016
Project Manager/Sound Designer
48 Hour Game Jam Game
