Brain Powered Games Africa is a growing collection of digital games focusing on exercising one or more cognitive abilities, including attention, memory, language, visual/spatial functions, and executive functions.The games serve as is computerized cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CCRT) with HIV inflected children in Malawi and Uganda and is currently in a clinical research trial to gauge effectiveness.

Producer || April 2024-September 2024 || 6 Months || Team Size: 6 || GEL LAB

Producer

Oversaw the development and production of design, programming, art, and audio for the duration of the project.
Meet with clients to ensure expectations were met and delivered in a timely fashion.
Managed and Organized a Jira board to keep track of tasks and bugs over the project's development time.
Ran daily stand ups and met with the director of the company to guarantee the project was on track.
Operated QA play tests and created avenues for bugs to be reported and distributed to programmers in a timely fashion.

Challenges

My team was the 5th team to work on this project. With previous teams trying different styles of code, documentation, and organization, it took my team time to fully adapt to the project.
The software we were working with was on the older side, and we had to learn how to maneuver around its limitations.
The project did not act similarly on different platforms. This created many more bugs than we anticipated.
There were 11 separate games to playtest and a limited amount of developers.

Reflections

Learned how to allocate resources with limited development power and still meet clients expectations.
Developed the skills necessary to keep the project on track through unforeseen setbacks caused from porting the project onto multiple different and updating the project version.
Discovered an efficient way for bugs reported in playtests to become tasks and distributed to the programming team.
Setting up clear expectations from the clients end and the developers end is critical for keeping the team's morale high and expectations clear.