The team met several times over the course of the first week. On Monday, we started by setting up the project room and discussed each team member’s strengths and potential roles that we could each take on. By Wednesday, we finalized our decisions regarding each team members’ roles and responsibilities. Elwin and Jennifer wil be co-producers and wil divide up the production workload. Carey and Seewon wil be taking on the creative work as 2D artists. The lead programming role will be taken by Pei-Lin. Megan and Shaveen will be our technical artists and Kaiyang wil be our designer. Additionaly, most of the team members wil also be taking on secondary roles such as sound designer and support programmer to compliment our team. Drew, our project advisor, provided us with some information about the client and our contacts at 2K Games and Firaxis. We contacted our client regarding their availability to meet with us for our very first meeting. Greg, SVP Product Development at 2K Games, informed us that Kate, Director of PD Operations, was not in the office this week, and that they would be in touch early next week regarding their availability.
During our Friday meeting, we decided on “Future Tech” as our team name after an extensive brainstorm. Our core hours wil be Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2PM to 6PM, in which our team members are required to be in the project room. Finaly, to end a very hot Friday afternoon, we conducted some Civ V research by playing the game, and even held a
multiplayer session with the team. Further research wil be conducted over the weekend where we wil be looking deeper into Civ V, the modding tools and current world problems.
