Production schedules were created and managed using MS Project, we also Want to loop others in? Simple, just send out the link to the Wiki page. Way to capture information from any computer in our office and made itĮasy to keep a record of past decisions and track outstanding issues. Wiki for meeting notes, agendas, to-do lists, and so on. While initially skeptical, I came to be an avid fan of using our Pages, our own proprietary tool for task tracking and the warboard. A couple tools that were helpful for us were using Wiki Team meetings didn’t mean that keeping everyone in the loop wasn’tĮssential. Guys, remember the “guac and salsa” meeting?), but not having regular The team all at once, and sometimes we’d have them just for fun… (hey Of course sometimes there were things that were best communicated to Having them, we actually had very few of them during Marine. Personally am not a fan of regular team meetings just for the sake of There isn’t a layer of bureaucracy that we need to live by. Fortunately, we’re a dynamic enough company that Wasted time while ensuring that the team was informed and on the sameīalance of meetings. Of credit, but we also incorporated various processes to help minimize Certainly our pre-planning efforts deserve a lot Smooth development experience and there are many contributing factorsĪs to why that was so. Way the game plays but it still feels consistent with everything else The end we feel we introduced some pretty significant changes to the It helped us to polish the UI and make the overall game moreįun and as a result we believe we were better able to address the broadīased market that simply loves Zoo Tycoon 2. While ensuring consistency in gameplay across the Zoo Tycoon It allowed us to implement some major changes to the game It helped us reprioritize in response to feedback and gave usįlexibility to emphasize those aspects of the product that were core to
These efforts enabled us to make better choices when we had to chooseīetween ideas, and it helped prevent unplanned features from creeping Useable in at least a rudimentary state very early in the project. For instance, weįocused on getting the game mechanics for training and some of theĬompletely new user interfaces for training and show creation in and The game early and allow us to iterate upon them. The risk of getting it done but the risk of it “not being fun” as well.Īs a result we frontloaded various features so that they would get into WeĪlso assessed our critical features with respect to risk… and not just Something that we continually referred back to during development. “parts” that were required and planned accordingly.Ĭreated a prioritized list of features that categorized features asīeing “critical,” “important” or “optional,” and this list was Recognized and defined the scope early in the process, we knew the Had a good grasp of the goals and expectations for the product, we The ultimate goal is for ZT2: Marine Mania toīecome recognized and respected as the best marine-themed Marine theme, water is at the forefront, supported by a brilliantĪquatic soundscape.
Compelling training and marine showsĮnhance players’ animal interaction experiences. Marine Mania extends the animal gameplay to the water to add a newĪquatic world to Zoo Tycoon 2.
Throughout the development it was really useful to map our decisions on We spent a fair amount of time creating a vision statement and We started early design work on Marine while we were still working on the first expansion, Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species. Perfect and there are certainly things that we’d keep a more careful Visuals of the game to the next level, we had a great team working on Marine Mania,Īnd it’s probably one of the smoothest projects I’ve had the pleasure It was an extremely fun project to work on for many reasons it added completely new gameplay elements that expand the Zoo TycoonĮxperience, we made a number of technical improvements that take the As is obvious by its title, Marine extends the animal gameplay to the water to add a new aquatic world to Zoo Tycoon 2. Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania is the third expansion for the Zoo Tycoon 2 series.
0 kommentar(er)
