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Art vs. Science
…Well, Computer Science anyway
Art
Digital Media: Art, Modeling, Animation, Music,…
Other: Scriptwriting and Playwriting
Engineering, Business

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US Secretary of Labor appointed a commission to determine the skills people need to succeed in the modern workforce.

This new framework for workplace skills was based on 3 components:

Functional skills: what people actually do at work (real-world)
Enabling skills: specific knowledge and procedures developed through the traditional teaching and learning activities of schools
The scenario: a communication device to demonstrate the way in which work integrates these skills into a productive outcome

The gaming curriculum assumes a foundation of enabling skills and focuses on teaching the functional soft-skills through the use of workplace scenarios. More on this in a moment….

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GDW 1 (11 weeks)

pre-production effort
4-6 person teams
Concept, design, prototype, sell
1 page sell, 5 page executive summary, GDD
Instructor is External Executive Producer
Open “pitch” gets voted on by faculty and students

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GDW 2 (11 weeks)

full-production effort
10-20 person consolidated teams
Full GDD, Gantt charts,�Project Production Journals (PPJ)
Multi-level game, video trailer, promotional material (i.e. poster)

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Leadership

Team leaders

Interpersonal communication

Stop the emails! Talk! Record meeting minutes

Punctuality

Deductions for absence or lateness

Respect for deadlines

Pay (grades) for meeting deadlines

Working well with others

Conflict management

Time management

Weekly assessment and pay

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Revision control
Asset lists
Templates
Naming conventions

Or why not to name something:

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Dan_screwed_up_first_model_so_heres_mine_2.mdl

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Brainstorming

Theme exercises: i.e. Music, Color, Story

Brainstorming vs. Groupthink

Yale Psychologist Irving Janis devised 7 ways of preventing groupthink:

Each member is “critical evaluator”.�This allows each member to freely air objections and doubts.
Higher-ups should not express an opinion when assigning a task.
Set up independent groups working on the same problem.
All effective alternatives should be examined.
Discuss ideas with trusted people outside of the group.
The group should invite outside experts into meetings.
At least 1 member should be assigned the role of Devil's advocate.

Living design

Reviews
Playtesting
Iterative

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Mirror Industry (with caveats)
Internal Producer
Budget & pay for meeting milestones

Gantt charts, Basecamp, Bugzilla, etc.
Project Production Journals
PPJ follows SCRUM

Last, analyze, next, samples

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Waterfall

Relay race

Rugby scrum

vs. Iterative/Agile/Scrum

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Waterfall Development

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Waterfall Development

(Images from http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/02/rockets-cars-and-gardens-visualizing.html)

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Waterfall Development

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Waterfall Development

Improvement Method one: Rocket Swarm

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