Team Exercise
This week, Vanissa went over what we did a check in on how we were feeling mentally. As team members, it’s important to look out for one another and to know when to use empathy to resolve basic conflicts.
Here, we did an exercise pointing out how we work in teams:
In this exercise, I plotted out grid as set out on the presentation from our Monday lesson and labelled each corner. Here, we were given post-it notes and what we had to do was state our working preferences (I misunderstood the meaning and wrote down the sections of games design I work best with). Strengths entails what each person is great at in team environments, I have jotted down that I was very good at coming up with multiple variations of the same concept. Communication preferences is what someone prefers to be communicated through I.E online, in person, email. For me, I think it’s important to have in person talks as sometimes communication can get misunderstood over text. Lastly, struggles are what someone has trouble with in any given project. I couldn’t write all of mine but I greatly struggle with giving out criticisms at the right time and how to say it. Another thing I struggle with is finding the motivation to work and get a solid work flow going.
Update on Project!
Before the week had properly started, I began on drawing another draft of Yami which can be found here. The reason why I changed his overall look is because I wanted him to present as his occupation and with the current design he had on, I think he looked a bit too plain. I kept the major elements of Yami such as the leopard prints and his hair colour but aside from that he went through a drastic change.
On our Thursday’s lesson I pointed out to Izzy that the character and the environment don’t really go well together in terms of colour palette, which is going to be quite the struggle to solve. This is because it’ll be hard to make an aesthetic colour palette with Yami’s current dark and warm tones and pair them up with the pastels Izzy has.
So we have set up a meeting with Sophie to talk through how to resolve this issue.