Re: [Isugamedev-midworld] organization and tasks

[Chad A. <ae...@ae...>]

I would be glad to be a mentor.  Do you use AIM or IRC?  It would be easier if
we could talk in some realtime way.

Michael Holtan wrote:
> 
>    Well, being  a young and relatively inexperienced member I probably
> shouldn't be in charge of anything, but I would definitely like to help with
> storyline, general design, and anything anybody needs help on.  Also, if I
> could be paired up with someone (a 'mentor' perhaps?) who could show me what
> they're doing and give me some small tasks to accomplish while teaching me all
> they know, I could more effectively help the group.  This 'Yoda'-type person
> would be greatly appreciated and would also serve the purpose of passing on the
> superior knowledge and skill of the present senior members to the future senior
> members of the club.  :)  Let me know what you think.
> 
>       -Mike
> 
> > Hi all; your unofficial project lead speaking. Why do I always get stuck
> > with this position? :-/
> >
> > First off, I expect everyone to reply to this email (to the list).
> >
> > Anyway, midworld development has definately been lacking lately (myself
> > included). We still haven't hit that first iteration yet, but we do keep
> > inching closer. I've got some ideas on how we might be able to take care
> > of this problem so we can actually hit that mid-November deadline.
> >
> > 1. Give everybody project responsibilities. For example, Josh is the AI
> > guy, Andres is doing art, I'm your basic collider, etc. I think we should
> > revisit this list and make sure everything is covered and everybody feels
> > ownership in the project. This way we might feel like it would be good to
> > get shit done.
> >
> > 2. Give EVERYBODY a task that can be accomplished in a week. We'll then
> > meet the next week to talk about what got done (everything!) and set out
> > tasks for the following week.
> >
> >
> > I'm starting to lose track of the people who are involved or have
> > expressed interest in the project ... so here's my list.
> > - Chad Austin
> > - Ethan Bass
> > - Josh Brown
> > - Johnathan Gurley
> > - Michael Holtan
> > - Kevin Meinert
> > - Andres Reinot
> > - Ben Scott
> > - Ronald Sidharta
> >
> > Sadly, of those 10 people, only about half have really tried to make this
> > project their own! Let's get this show on the road and get this game made!
> > We have an extremely versatile team - developers, artists, game designers,
> > sound engineers, build managers, etc ... I think if we really want this
> > game to happen we can do it, but we've got to focus on making our goals a
> > reality so we can have a kick-ass game we can show off at the Game
> > Developers Conference.
> >
> > Okay, I'm off my soapbox. Think about what part of this game you want to
> > do ...
> >
> > cheers,
> > -----
> > Ben Scott
> > Research Assistant VRAC
> > bs...@ia...
> >
> >
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