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Once again
nothing
of this whole clan plan happened.
That makes me pissed.
We need Mod Maz back!
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That makes me pissed.
We need Mod Maz back!
Ferenc2017
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19-Oct-2015 11:26:44 - Last edited on 20-Oct-2015 10:55:40 by Ferenc2017
Scret
said
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Mod Matthe said :
Zyphix said :
Ferenc2017 said :
Once again nothing of this whole clan plan happened.
That makes me pissed.
We need Mod Maz back!
TBH, We need Mod Maz and Mod Timbo, Moltaire working features for Clan Dev.
And MattHe and Allstar doing clan community stuff.
To this day, why aren't there small teams assigned or placed into niches groups to oversee development? It never made any sense. Without structure, you can't streamline anything. It's lost in a shuffle.
We work using a SCRUM system for teams, allowing mixed discipline teams to deal with different parts of the game on a project based rotation. This means no one team gets locked into a single area of development, we keep skills broad across the teams and it ensures a good knowledge base of game code.
In parallel we run a series of curators who each have their own point of interest and are the go to people for questions on key functions, lore or code about their specialism. Mod Maz is the Clan Curator, as an example.
Together those two systems allow us to produce regular updates of content to appeal to a wide ranging group of players - the disadvantage is that of course huge projects have to be very compelling in order to ensure the dedication of a Scrum team to that task, or series of tasks, for the significant period of time and resource such a project would demand. The Elf City is the last release of that type we have done and Invention will be the next one.
Sounds like having a football team rotate positions after every match, ya know putting the centre back up front for one game then having him play on the wing the next game so he can have a better knowledge of all positions and aspects of the game. I wonder though how results would be if a football team used that same formuala.
A football team analogy does not really work sadly as there are only 11 players allowed on the pitch at a time and specific functions that have to be filled, no matter the game. Squad rotation for a defensive or offensive strategy works better, but there is not a game developer out there who can afford their devs to spend over half their working time sitting on a subs bench, twiddling their thumbs.
There are a variety of development work types that needs fulfilling and running single team skills, focused purely on a specific area of the code base, would either mean we would only develop in those areas or we would have an enormous team who would be very stop start in their development projects. It would also leave the game very vulnerable to staff changes and open to risk through that. Mod MattHe | Former Community Manager, now in Events & occasional Lore Monkey
Mod Matthe said :
Zyphix said :
Ferenc2017 said :
Once again nothing of this whole clan plan happened.
That makes me pissed.
We need Mod Maz back!
TBH, We need Mod Maz and Mod Timbo, Moltaire working features for Clan Dev.
And MattHe and Allstar doing clan community stuff.
To this day, why aren't there small teams assigned or placed into niches groups to oversee development? It never made any sense. Without structure, you can't streamline anything. It's lost in a shuffle.
We work using a SCRUM system for teams, allowing mixed discipline teams to deal with different parts of the game on a project based rotation. This means no one team gets locked into a single area of development, we keep skills broad across the teams and it ensures a good knowledge base of game code.
In parallel we run a series of curators who each have their own point of interest and are the go to people for questions on key functions, lore or code about their specialism. Mod Maz is the Clan Curator, as an example.
Together those two systems allow us to produce regular updates of content to appeal to a wide ranging group of players - the disadvantage is that of course huge projects have to be very compelling in order to ensure the dedication of a Scrum team to that task, or series of tasks, for the significant period of time and resource such a project would demand. The Elf City is the last release of that type we have done and Invention will be the next one.
Sounds like having a football team rotate positions after every match, ya know putting the centre back up front for one game then having him play on the wing the next game so he can have a better knowledge of all positions and aspects of the game. I wonder though how results would be if a football team used that same formuala.
A football team analogy does not really work sadly as there are only 11 players allowed on the pitch at a time and specific functions that have to be filled, no matter the game. Squad rotation for a defensive or offensive strategy works better, but there is not a game developer out there who can afford their devs to spend over half their working time sitting on a subs bench, twiddling their thumbs.
There are a variety of development work types that needs fulfilling and running single team skills, focused purely on a specific area of the code base, would either mean we would only develop in those areas or we would have an enormous team who would be very stop start in their development projects. It would also leave the game very vulnerable to staff changes and open to risk through that. Mod MattHe | Former Community Manager, now in Events & occasional Lore Monkey
28-Oct-2015 14:42:44
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