First Team Meeting Worksheet

[CancheMichael]

First Team Meeting Worksheet

Team Members Present

• Avi Dixit
• Kewen Huang
• Kaihao Tian
• Yuchuan Ma
• Michael Canche

I. Identify a Common Vision

You’ve all voted on a common idea and themes. Now is the time to work through your commonalities and find a unifying vision between all of you. Answer the following for each of you. This is the time to speak your mind. Be honest with each other.

Commonalities

• video games: single player and multiplayer games, console games, including story telling games
• adrenoline-pumping activities like rollercoaster
• cooking
• worked with unity/unreal engine

Inspiration

• games: qq farm
• good stories and movies
• daily life struggles in game
• Minecraft bed wars
• Domination/Capture the Flag game modes
• Fall Guys: invisibeans
• Human fall flat character movement

Problems of Interest

• Modern mobile games/games in general aimed at children are full of microtransactions and/or wait timers.
• Implementation of problem-solving/puzzles in games that integrate well and are not annoying
• Exportation of games to multiple platforms
• format of the game: local or online
• length of each match

Identify

• A video game

II. Narrow In

Now let's try narrowing in on a problem that interests all of you. Make sure to go around the table and listen to everybody on your team without interruption.

Coolness

• It would be extremely cool to fully design and build a game from scratch. We are all big enjoyers of video games, so it is cool to approach this problem from the other side

Challenges

• Exporting to various consoles may be difficult
• Creating an online pvp experience would be difficult
• Making a physics engine for models will be hard
• Modeling/animating characters and environments (scavenge/buy/create assets?)

Success

• Creating a fun game that everyone on the team enjoys playing and is proud of.
• The game hits the broad ideas that everyone on the team wanted to implement.
• a good game design mechanism

Starting point

• local coop
• one simple map

[CancheMichael]

Done. Everything went well.

[timofei7]

great! couple of initial thoughts- unity just released new networking - unclear if it is any good but it is new. exporting to multiple platforms is possible with many of the game engines but i would recommend just picking a platform to focus on.

last year 2 teams created multiplayer games, one in VR in unity, one desktop unreal. both worked pretty well. hopefully the networking stuff has gotten easier since then as well.