Many Games Companies Save money on their budget by producing BETA editions of their game for the public to produce feedback which mean that they do not have to employ many testers. Although the BETA is released for the public there are some which are only available to a select few who have signed up or just plain old lucky.
BETAs i have part taken in involve
Halo3
Halo Reach
Call of duty WAW
Blur
Monday 29 November 2010
Wednesday 24 November 2010
ML does Risk Assessment/2
This man wasn't prepared for the risks of riding a horse. Make sure your prepared for the RISKS!!!
ML does Risk Assessment
All projects involve risk. In today's business climate even the most well-prepared plans must be flexible enough to meet and overcome unexpected challenges. To quantify and manage risk, successful project managers must thoroughly analyse and quantify risk before and during a project, as well as develop effective response strategies to deliver projects that meet stakeholder demands.
Tuesday 23 November 2010
Gantt Chart
Gantt chart is a diagram that general planning to helps user to plan and design a project. User can plan and design a project based on what they going to do, what tasks will be taken and in each task can included how long it will take to finish the task.
An example of using a gantt chart to making a cup of tea.
An example of using a gantt chart to making a cup of tea.
The diagram is basically showing all the tasks brake down into stages of how to making a cup of tea, and in each task its included the set of time of how long the task will take to complete it. In task 2 and 3, while the kettle is heating up, the user can actually working on the next task at the same time, because the kettle will takes couple of minutes to heat up, so it is benificial if the user works on another task while when working on a task that will taks a long time, this will improve the efficiency and the costs of saving time if the user working on a buisiness project.
Project Lifecycle
Phases of Project Lifecycle
• Defining and producing a specification
This stage is about defining what the customer needs and to solve the problems with you customer. By doing this firstly you need to interview with your customer, within the interview you need to asks questions about what the customer requirements needs and recorded so you don’t miss any things. Then you need to produce a specification for your customer. You also can produce a business case for your customer which it giving potential costs and benefits for your customer.
The four main activities are:
1. Interview the customer
2. Analyse the customer’s requirements
3. Produce a specification
4. Produce a business case
• Planning and designing
When you know what the customer requirements needs then you got to plan out what to do to reach the standard of what customer want, and you got to design it out to present to your customer.
The five main activities are:
1. Produce an overall design
2. Design an input system
3. Design an output system
4. Design a processing system
5. Produce design documentation
• Collecting information
When you planning for a project you always need to collect information on how the project is going and how to improve it from others who are working on the project. Once the information has collected and you will need to review and summarise that information into your project and present it to your customer.
• Implementing
When you know what the customer requirements needs and you had produced a specification for your customer. You make the plan and the produce your design to your customer. Then you need to build up the implement and present to your customer.
The implementation stage includes:
• Build the project
• Test that the produce meets the need
• Provide documentation and possibly training
• Hand the project over to the customer
• Completing and reviewing
This stage is to the completing and reviewing for your project. By completing your project you need to identifying the actual benefits and how much it going to cost for building and running the project. By reviewing your project, this is when you complete your project and you present to the stakeholders to do a final project review.
• Defining and producing a specification
This stage is about defining what the customer needs and to solve the problems with you customer. By doing this firstly you need to interview with your customer, within the interview you need to asks questions about what the customer requirements needs and recorded so you don’t miss any things. Then you need to produce a specification for your customer. You also can produce a business case for your customer which it giving potential costs and benefits for your customer.
The four main activities are:
1. Interview the customer
2. Analyse the customer’s requirements
3. Produce a specification
4. Produce a business case
• Planning and designing
When you know what the customer requirements needs then you got to plan out what to do to reach the standard of what customer want, and you got to design it out to present to your customer.
The five main activities are:
1. Produce an overall design
2. Design an input system
3. Design an output system
4. Design a processing system
5. Produce design documentation
• Collecting information
When you planning for a project you always need to collect information on how the project is going and how to improve it from others who are working on the project. Once the information has collected and you will need to review and summarise that information into your project and present it to your customer.
• Implementing
When you know what the customer requirements needs and you had produced a specification for your customer. You make the plan and the produce your design to your customer. Then you need to build up the implement and present to your customer.
The implementation stage includes:
• Build the project
• Test that the produce meets the need
• Provide documentation and possibly training
• Hand the project over to the customer
• Completing and reviewing
This stage is to the completing and reviewing for your project. By completing your project you need to identifying the actual benefits and how much it going to cost for building and running the project. By reviewing your project, this is when you complete your project and you present to the stakeholders to do a final project review.
Friday 12 November 2010
Design Project
well there only 4 day left till my group has to hand in out first draft of out Process of Design document and its far from done. we still have 3 topics to cover and also more work has been added as one of the members has totally dropped the ball on this which means the rest of the team will have to cover what they failed to. Will we get it completed in time..you'll just have to wait and see.
Abdul Ahmad
Random Drawing
A Random Drawing That me and a group of Lads from my project management class drew up. it was meant to be about something that went wrong while performing a task, however knowing myself and the people i did it with as with the task last week it go out of hand slightly and ended up being very childish yet fun adding a lot of random characters from TV.
Abdul Ahmad
Friday 5 November 2010
Fable 3 appears to be rushed
Latest edition to the fable series appears to be rushed and the testing phase appears to be the one that has been hugely forgotten about with the many bugs affecting players during the play. The design team also seems to have spent little time on the design of weapons as i have now collected all weapons available in the game and most of the have the same design which is rather disappointing as with the success of the franchise you would expect Lionhead to spend time fine tuning the game.
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