Max's Blog

December 6

Today we had Study Skills lesson , during the lesson we finally a pointed topics for the personal project mine was creation of a game. I was interested in coding for quite long time . That's why on the bases of my interests I decided to try myself in the game development . My goal is creation of first person shooter game based on language of C#.

As main software I have chosen Unity3d , the major reason for it was an easy way in use of it and number of tutorials created for it. Using it I will create my game . My second software will be blender 3d modelling , with an access to it I will establish my characters , setting and basic equipment.

I think that by February 2016 my beta version will be ready for presentation and full game will be available in the March of 2016.

January 15th

Management of the product (game)

Empathy
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test

Introduction:

Design thinking used by many entrepreneurs in order to find creative solution to complicated problems.It helps to manage a product , in a way of outsourcing not eligible information and coming up with great product.

Considering my patience to entrepreneurship and coding I decided to combine two of those hobbies and by use of design thinking create a management plan which will be followed by fully working product.

My aim is to establish management plan for my game , and in the end present a prototype

Type of research

My research will be mixed as in research paper will be included statistics in terms of numbers but also a information gathered from beta testers

Research Question:

Keys to success in design thinking

Research Problem:

It's important to be aware of what is currently happening in one of the fastest growing industries

Method

Im planning to steadily follow points proposed by the design thinking model ,at first I will try to use web sources and consultations with people to determine my audience then threw the process of outsourcing I will create my first draft version of scale , afterwards I m planning to create a prototype which will be shared with a fewer of people for testing.

February 15 (Updated on May 17th)

May 4th submit Personal Project reflection to Study Skills coordinator

5th-8th Personal Project display and CAS exhibition

8th Seminar Day

	Action	Deadline	Checklist
January	Preparation (research)		Done

February	Preparation (research)		Done

March	Beta version of product		Done

April	Product And Marketing Plan		Done

May	Presentation of the research paper		Done

Define the goal and aims of the project

the aim of your project?

Aim of my project is to prepare working version of product and come up with plan of its promotion

Outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal.

Challenge will be in creation of product as its involving programming and graphic design and also in analysis of my potential customer.

February 26

Started experimenting with unity created first simple game .Made a basic movements with cube .I used new components such as Rigid Body which basically gravitational component .

March 4th

Mind Map For My Personal Project

March 6th

I decided to create Multiplayer FPS which will be able to seek over the network currently , I added only two main components , first one is movement over the network another was mainly a networking tools such network manager HUD and spawn points .

April 15th

These is my 5th entry on the personal project so far my work progressing I finally managed to create a character fro my fps game . For these I used FUSE CC these is a 3d modelling unit for establishment of 3d characters. This software is used by many digital designers and game developers , my choice was based on quality of models produced by this software and on a simplicity of use of it. Another issue with blender (the software I planed to use ) it was able to create only low poly characters and also required allot of skill in sculpting and modelling .

As you might see these software allows you to select particular parts of human body and then shape those .Afterwards you can add several types of cloth . Then I exported this character to the adobe Mixamo , another impressive software created by adobe creative cloud , that allowed me to rig it and then animate it . Mixamo has a variety of animation for a different types of the objectives.

These is a current character, Im imported to "Unity Engine" in the future Im planning to add several other 3D characters.

April 18th

Here is some samples of my company basic description for the marketing plan.

Executive Summary

Active duty was developed by the Gambit Studio , our main competitive advantage is that we are free and because of that we can seize much more customers rather than such big companies as activision. Currently Game development industry is increasingly growing only in 2010 it earned in revenue over 10 billion dollars only in us. We providing a free gaming service with ability of in game payments by that I mean as long players are willing to win they will continually donate . Another privilege we are getting of being free is that we attracting more active users this results in increasing interest to us from a promotion agencies who will want to place their advertisements in our game.

The challenge

“Active Duty ” was created in march of 2016 it's fps shooter game , which was created by the Gambit Studio in 2016 . It is our current and main startup . The Game Launch is planned on the May 17 th we are planning to achieve the large number of active users in order to increase profits . The Game will be free in use but it will ask for an in game payment for the development of particular game experience . After will increase the active player group we are planning to increase the number of employees and hardware to increase gaming experience . All these changes are vital for the company scalability .Later on when we will increase the size of active users we also will be able to sell space for the advertisements. By doing that we will increase in size and value .

Also I created a logo for my company and started working on my website

I choose name gambit after the strategical move in chess.

May 7th

I successfully working on my Research Paper . My Research question is How to write a marketing plan and the importance of it in the product management ? Global Issue is that majority of businesses fail within the first year fail mainly because of lack or marketing research .

May 14th

I finished my game environment