Sillypolitik

This year I got involved with creating a card based strategy game created in Unreal Engine! Masterminded by Lev Working and created by my team, Studio 7, the game follows disgruntled laundromat owner Rufus Kreig and his journey to dismantle the HOA, which eventually leads to many more shenanigans.

So, What Do I Do?

I currently serve as the team's producer and lead 2D artist! This is my first real producer role, and I have loved it! It has come with some growing pains, with learning Jira and Confluence for the first time. I have also gotten to flex my muscles as a character designer, editing animatics, creating concept art and helping spearhead the art direction. AKA our team lead Lev tells me what he wants and I make it happen! This has been such a cool experience and my team has been so amazing, see them here!

Producing

As the teams producer my main tasks are to make our bi-weekly Jira sprints, check in with the team, and help our team lead with any other things we need. Balancing being the main 2D artist and producer has been a bit challanging, but my delegating most of my time creating art outside of class, I'm able to be present and listen to my team and give them feedback on anything they need or just listening while they work it out themselves. I also manage all assets in the our team Google Drive, created a contract with our team lead, and am currently in progress with making a style guide.

Top Priorities

Getting to know the team, how they work and what needs I can help meet.
Ensuring all work is completed by the weekend deadlines.
- If anything is not able to be completed, understand why and rework the next sprint to accommodate.
Making sure no one is feeling over or under worked.
Advocating for team members if something doesn't quite working.

What I want to change for Winter 2025

Since this was my first official producer role I have learned so much. Things I don't want to do next semester and things I do want to want to implement. A lot of what I want to do is take more intensive notes. Every week I talk to my team members and store what they say to my in my brain. Next semester I want to start taking notes and logging comments, concerns and compliments. I also want to have more on purpose team meetings. We would have a lot of impromptu meetings, but I want to start doing monthly check ins. Complete with an agenda, comments from the team and detailed notes. I want all these notes I take to be accessible to my team as well, so I want to add an edited version to confluence for anyone to access! I'm still learning and editing my process, but luckily learning is one of my favorite things to do!