The Day I Thought To Myself That This Is Going To Be Hard !

Today I found out in my lecture who would be in my group. Now seeing as this is a new project, new start and everything I am very opened minded. But my main concern is that two of the members of my group that I have been randomly placed with did not do anything for the last project, which has started making alarm bells ring. I know that the last project was stupidly ridiculously hard but the majority of the course managed to come out with a end result, expect these two in my group. This is not to say that they have a perfectly good excuse for why they didn’t complete the last project, but it makes me think what are they going to contribute to the group when we actually start to make the project ??? Due to the spite of this I am happy with my other two members of the group who have demonstrated that they can produce high levels of good quality work and I believe that they will be a great asset to the group when it comes to the crunch time.

This also brings me to an opinion that I have drawn up of y experience at my time at university, which is that I believe the lectures should group people together who do good quality work instead of mixing with people who don’t do work with people who do, do good work, which makes them feel under pressure because they are having to catch up the people who can’t be bothered to do the work and at the end of the day the people who don’t do the work end up getting the same results for the people who stick their next out trying to actually get a degree. I know that what I am saying here could be unfair and unjust but you come to uni to work to get a degree and at the same time have a good time with a social life, not doing the latter half of what I have 24/7.

I would just like to point out that this is my own personal opinion and does not reflect anything to do with whom I have been grouped with as I don’t know them well enough to make such an opinion about them, this opinion is only to do with what I have experienced in the past and I am fully aware in the work industry that you make not like who you work with, but at the end of the day you are all there to do a job to the best of your ability.

Games Design Project

After a hellish first project back at uni, which I have spoken about in my pervious posts. I can gladly say that this Game Design project should be less stressful as it is a group based project and should be good fun. However I am not assuming for one minute that there will be complications. Like they say, assumptions is the mother of all f***ups.

So what will I be doing over the next 15 weeks, you may ask ? well here is the Bournemouth University 2009 Game Design brief:

THE BRIEF

To produce a game that provides the player with a rich immersive experience; making

good use of both visual, aural and narrative effects.

Restrictions:

• Produce TWO media artifacts that work together harmoniously

• Provide supporting material as evidence of your research and development in the

form of a Game Bible.

ASSESSMENT DETAILS

The work in this unit is assessed by a group production project that is made up of TWO media artifacts and supporting material, a Presentation/Pitch, a Production Analysis & a Peer assessment.

Production Project = 50%

- Pitch / Presentation, Production & supporting material/ Bible

Production Analysis = 30%

Peer Assessment = 20%

You will be required, as a team, to formally pitch your idea on Thursday 10th December 2009. Times will be allocated and room specified closer to that date. Production work to be handed in on CD-Rom as well as uploaded to a University server by 12pm Thurs 25th March 2009 accompanied by supporting material/Game Bible. Production Analysis work and Peer Assessment to be handed in by 12pm Thurs 25th March 2009.

Bournemouth University 2009/2010

By the sounds of this, I will have my work cut out for me and the group. However I have yet to find out in my next lecture who will be in my group.

Many Very & Annoying Weeks Later !!!!!

First of all I do apologies for not keeping up with my blog, this is due to the fact that i have been spending every waking minute trying to complete the project. and I can gladly say after six weeks of this I think I have completed the website. This is not say that it needs improvements done to it but in spite of this I am happy with the final outcome I produced.

One interesting problem that arose from doing this project was half through the production period, the brief was annoying changed as the Lectures who had set this brief realised that the project that we are doing was totally buggered from the start, and we only found out about this into our 4th week into production when we couldn’t upload any content, this was due to FTP coding was not properly implemented and also that the content that would be uploaded was to be done by the BA(Hons) Television Production course and now we are 5 days from handing in the project and do I see any content done by the TV Production course, do I bloody hell and I won’t get on to the fact about them supplying the Live feed that is to be incorporated into the website.

So overall I can say that this project out of all the projects I have done at Bournemouth University, this has been by far the least enjoyable, mainly because of the time constraint and having to learn PHP from scratch grrrrrrr.

I have decided I am definitely going to be a Designer after university and stay away from anything that relates to website design.