When tasks are first put into an Agile backlog (the to-do list), they’re usually kept quite vague to avoid the work of defining the specifics until those specifics need further defining. This works as long as the time estimate for the task is within a reasonable ballpark of what it’ll take when broken down, and […]
We’ve mentioned on the show a few times that overtime can be a troublemaker when using Agile. Not only does it throw off burndown counts (the number of tasks from your to-do list you finish off each cycle), but it builds over time as fatigue, which then results in slower and slower task burndowns. On
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One of the tasks I’ve set for this week’s show, Episode 12, is to add an options menu to Project Spaghetti. That shouldn’t be too much trouble, especially after getting a Pause Menu up and running for Episode 11, but one of the options I want to include is a way to change the resolution
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Episode Five Episode five of the live game development show that we do every week on Twitch.tv is up on our YouTube channel. A month has passed since starting Project Spaghetti, so this week Eric revisits planning to see how his estimates worked out. After that, he jumps into making the game more like a
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One of the most difficult things to manage when working with a team on any project is fear. Of course that applies to game projects as well. It’s hard enough to deal with on a solo project, but fear grows with the size of the undertaking. A game jam is not as scary as a
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Episode One (Part 1/2) Episode One (Part 2/2) Our live development show kicked off on Twitch.tv, and Eric is now working on the game Project Spaghetti two hours a week with a goal of getting something playable by December 31st. Thank you to everyone who stopped by Twitch.tv! Eric, Steve, Bob, Dotty, and B.Grimm will
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Thanks to the ever-awesome Idle Thumbs podcast, I heard about the tool Trello. You’ll have to forgive me if that’s old news, but even old news takes time to reach me here in Japan. (In music, for example, I’m still catching up with the mid-2000s) I’ve seen some projects using Trello in interesting ways and
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