Analysis Of An Endless Runner

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Introduction
Throughout the 24 weeks for our Team Project module we as a team voted on creating “A. Cornelius Nutz in Space”. This is to be an Endless Runner with its own USP (Unique Selling Point) that through the game you swap from running in 3 lanes to 9 lanes seamlessly. Our game will follow the key features that endless runners abide by that being you cannot stop running (unless you hit a wall and lose) and the score is determined by the distance you travel (Bomb, 2013). The narrative of the game being that the main character is a squirrel in space trying collect all of his lost nuts, it follows a cartoon theme and will be created using the Unity Engine and the game will also be deployed on iOS and Android.
Through the year there have been many problems which included but not limited to communication, team capability, redesign and team structure. This does not cancel out the many successes within our team; this document will be going over these issues and the possible ways we could have overcome these. I will be analyzing the group’s strengths and weaknesses but also comparing our development process with that of a commercial games studio.

Team Structure
At the start of the year we were put into teams with students all with varying skills but also given various team roles when we all undertook Belbins Team Role Self-Perception Inventory (BTRSPI). The image below shows the varying roles that Belbin talks about in his book “Management teams” (R. M. M. Belbin, 2010), these roles are completely different and all have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Figure 1 - Team Role Summary (R. M. Belbin, 2010)

Each member of the team had previously had varying amounts of contact with other members. For an example,...

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...f the issues that have arose I would prefer to stay away from some.
If I was to retake this module I would have preferred to have spent a more dense first 2 weeks to help the team push past the "Forming" and "Storming" stages as I felt as a group we were stuck in these for too long. I would have also preferred if the team leader was stricter on certain members about deadlines as this was one of the main problems that occurred which made us fall onto our contingency plan.
I felt that I have worked extremely hard through this year although starting to slow down near the end of the year due to deadlines from other modules. I have been extremely grateful to work with the people that I have and I feel that this year has been crucial in me learning some skills that I needed to learn but also that it has allowed me to work with a group excellent and hard working people.

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