Josh Bossie

Tag: [Pre-Sprint 3] Better Late Than Never

  • Pre-Sprint 3: Retrospective

    I’ll probably mix the format of this up from time to time, especially as I’m still firmly in the “pre-game” of sprint planning. So, let’s do this thing!

    Overview

    Sprint went well. Did a little bit of everything, from coding to design to art to my business itself. As I’ve said twice already these “pre-sprints” are going to be weird and disjointed, but that’s ok because it’s still progress.

    Change Log

    Coding

    + Made scaling crisper

    + Added portrait to dialog

    + Locked camera to map

    + Implement two additional monsters

    + Generally made the code far worse and hacky and terrible, and everyone hates it

    Design

    + Puttered about with TFS

    + Designed several new monsters! See them below

    + Began reading The Art of Game Design

    Demo

    well2

    green-ball-1 masked-ball bollywood

  • Pre-Sprint 3 Planning: Better Late Than Never

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    Pre-Sprint 3: Better Late Than Never

    Truth is, I should have written this 3 days ago. But, uh, better late than never, right?

    This sprint – pre-sprint, that is to say – is likely to be similar to the past two. So long as I’m chained down my time will be split and my concentration difficult. Still, it’s 8:31pm on a Tuesday and here I am working away, so that’s a good sign, right?

    Well, let’s hope so.

    Sprint Goals

    • More blog posts! I said this last time and wrote just one article. Granted that’s one more than I had before, but I need to do a better job
    • Obliterate stickies. I have a ridiculous number of outstanding stickies on my backlog board. No doubt this has contributed to my feeling unproductive. I want to tear through them, at least the easy ones.
    • Think more about the development process. Now that I’m actually coding it’s time to do some hard thinking on how I’ll actually work. How do iterations work? When do I know I’m done? When can people play this darn thing?

    So, very similar to last sprint. Fairly unfocused, but not distractedly so. I think it’s going to take me at least a couple months before I can really focus on any one area. Until then, lots of irons in the fire.