What I did this semester

Recently I was required to write a postmortem for the past semester's projects class. In the postmortem, I was required to specifically list all the things that I personally contributed to the project this semester. I was impressed with the result, and I thought it'd be cool to post that portion of the postmortem here.

• Wrote up contracts for outsourced artists
• Developed art template pieces for walls in both code and geometry 
• Created the wall size and modularity system to help faster implement levels 
• Built, rebuilt, and scrapped levels dozens of times. 
• Built and imported whitebox assets for early game development 
• Imported and developed initial sound system for development 
• Wrote crouching/peeking code for thief movement 
• Imported dozens of art assets, including walls, obstacles, doors, pillars, etc. 
• Hand-assigned tasks to engineers and helped communicate feature functionality 
• Co-wrote a design glossary with Chris 
• Developed the new process to help coordinate engineer efforts 
• Helped schedule trips to Wahoo, ESP, and EA to show the game to pros, and invited in Shane and friends to see the game. 
• Made a spreadsheet and schedule to have regular playtesting, and spearheaded said playtesting. 
• Personally quality-checked every single feature from the backlog. 
• Organized and arranged meetings with Troy D’Ambrosio for business help 
• Added content to the game website, specifically the gameplay, story, game, thief, hacker, team, platform, and EAE pages.
• Populated the backlog for the project (See appendix A) 
• Managed and collaborated with our music outsource artist towards producing 3 tracks for the game 
• Re-named the game 
• Promoted our game at Comic Con and Utah Indie night 
• Contacted Unity representatives to push our game via twitter 
• Pushed drones instead of human guards 
• Designed Tracers, SAPs, jammers, transmitters, door functionality, ping system, link placement versions 1-3, peeking system, lasers, guard traps, guard alert meters, and guard detection parameters 
• Invited guest engineers to assist team engineers with AI pathing problems 
• Laid out menu screen functionality 
• Developed bug-squashing system for weeks leading up to IGF 
• Formally presented the game to EPs 4 times 
• Recorded play sessions for use in trailers/promotional materials 
• Recorded/wrote tutorial audio explanation 
• Wrote 4 versions of story premise
• Wrote Tutorial cues content for 10 levels 
• Designed over 20 levels
• Developed unit-test levels for guard behavior
• Wrote up word list and approach for unified media plan