Ready for the new semester
At the first day (8/31/2015), we did an effective group meeting to determine everyone’s roles and interests towards the project. During the meeting, we elected our coproducers. Feiran Wang has better communication with client and faculties, and Zhen Geng is the person who does a good job in managing all the stuffs. And we got our schedules finalized in order to have a solid amount of core hours each week. We have created a physical scrum board and also a digital one called Trello to track our work progress. We set our stand up meeting which is at 1:30pm every day. Besides, when we met our advisors on Wednesday(9/2/2015), Shirley Saldamarco and Ruth Comley gave us some guidelines towards team building and details about this project. Finally, we came up with our team name as “RiverRun”, as we hope every kid is like a river, and finally union together to become an ocean, which has the strongest power.
Do research to better understand target audience
In order to fully understand what clients need and expectation, we did research about the school and similar educational games. Based on what we learned, we listed several questions want to ask during the first client meeting, which help us have a better understand of our target audience and make sure what the main goal for this project.
Meet client
On Friday (9/4/2015), our team with Shirley and Ruth did the first time visit in Colonial School in Grindstone to meet our client. After the deep conversation with some of the teachers in this school, we got a clearly goal to focus on. We are going to build a game for IU1 Colonial School TES/CTES program students to play by group within their meeting with social workers. The game is built to help them maintain a good social behavior and encourage them collaboration and make good decisions. And the age of our target audience is from 12 to 18. Next week, we will brainstorm several concepts for this project.
The school we work with.
Rules on the wall to educate student’s social behavior.