BMS is a platform where users can engage in meetings, discussions, brainstorming sessions, and socialization through the use of an exciting and interactive VR game.

Producer || April 2024-September 2024 || 6 Months || Team Size: 5 || Spartie & GEL Lab

Producer

Led a team of 5 of developers and managed scope for 6 months of development time.
Developed weekly presentations highlighting the teams progress and showed them to clients.
Managed and organized a Jira board and spreadsheet to keep track of tasks and bugs over the project's development time.
Discussed potential studies the game could be used for with the clients in research environments.
Worked directly with the director to advertise the game at game development events.

Challenges

The projects direction was changed drastically when my team was being onboarded. This made it difficult to use previous teams work to guide us.
We constantly needed multiple developers to playtest the game as many bugs could only be found while multiple players were in a scene.
The engine we utilized did not allow for many assets, which forced us to be very selective with our art assets.
Our programming team had to adapt to a new style of networking code, which took away development time.
An artist on the team dropped half way through the project. This made us reevaluate our projects scope.

Reflections

Learned how to be resourceful as our engine allowed a very limited amount of assets.
Ensured the team and the clients stayed on the same page by providing a detailed report on all the progress the team worked on each week.
Discovered that VR has many different limitations than standard games.
Was informed about that different accessibility features VR provides for users in game.