Time Management

After my tutorial, it became apparent that I need to carefully schedule how I spend my time. Although I made a work timetable as part of my learning agreement, I want to make a new one, which is a little more specific now I know what is required for my game.

Here is a list of things I need to do by 23rd May 2011: (so far)

-Rig protagonist

-Texture protagonist

-Animate protagonist (Walking, Running, Idle, throwing, dying, jumping, falling, landing etc)

-Prototype level (with Javascript)

-Model enemies

-Rig enemies

-Texture enemies

-Animate enemies

-Program enemies

-Model extra assets

-Texture extra assets

-Model environment

-Texture environment

-Program Projectiles

-Put assets into game

-Lighting

-Effects

-Sound/Music

-Play testing stage

-Develop, improve and polish game

To manage these tasks, I was advised to make and use a “Gantt” chart. They can be saved as images, PDFs or as a html file.

My schedule starts from today and ends on the hand-in date: 23/05/2011. I feel very confident that I can complete my game in this timeframe. I given myself the most time to do animating, as it is an area I may struggle with.

My next task is to greybox my level, ready for prototyping.