[CRJ9] Communities of Practice

This week, I presented the results of our final rapid ideation session with Will Ward. I also studied concepts related to communities of practice – groups that meet and engage in knowledge and experience sharing based around a common topic or problem (Pyrko, Dörfler and Eden 2016: 389-409). I reflect on my experience with both. I also took part in a short study session with fellow students.

[CRJ7] Version Control

Plenty of ground was covered over week 7. While the weekly materials were centered on version control, our cohort kicked off the second rapid ideation session.

[CRJ6.1] Interim Retrospective

As we have arrived at the middle of the first module of the Indie Games Development course, I went through my blog entries so far to reflect on my progress. Points of interest are split into start – stop – continue items as outlined by the Agile Alliance (Agile Alliance 2015).

[CRJ6] Reading Week

A challenge I am currently facing is that I do not spend a lot of time per week on reading materials related to the course. This has been especially true in the last two weeks with the rapid ideation exercise.

[CRJ5] Reflection

The week’s challenge activity has been to categorise entries in the reflective journal according to the five key skill domains – Dispositional, Effective, Interpersonal, Cognitive and Procedural (Parker 2020).

[CRJ4] Time and Project Management

In addition to the learning material on effective time management and game jam tips, this week brought our cohort into the start of a two-week marathon. We now have an opportunity to apply the creative skills we learned about in the last sprint, as well as challenge ourselves with planning out our tasks.

[CRJ3] Rapid Ideation

In this post, I reflect on Week 3 of the Development Practice module. The week covered a number of concepts, from a continuation of the topic of ideation, to exploring rapid prototyping motivations, techniques, and opportunities in the form of game jams.

[CRJ2] Creativity

Thoughts on this week’s idea generation exercise and its relevance to the concept of computational creativity.