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Project Details

In Bee Game, players must fly around an open map, collect resources, and manage a flock of bees to complete tasks and restore their hive.

• Generalist designer as well as the producer.

• Made in Unity

• Worked on from January 2025 to May 2025. 

• The development team had 12 members, they were: Myself, Hale Walls, Ben Baehre, Jacob Cruz, Alex Buckley, Marie Kutschke, Brandon Bell, Keegan Nilsson, Aidan Matschiner, Jayden Lombardi, Alex Bianca, and Evan Ngo. 

Deliverables:

In the project, I helped guide the overall vision during the start of development. Such as making the early design documents for each of the mechanics and features.

I also worked on the initial pitch and prototype for the project that showcased the basics of the gameplay. 

In addition, I was the producer and oversaw the project’s development. I managed the sprint planning for each week. I created a project roadmap that we used as a guide for how we would get everything into the game. Later on, I compiled a spreadsheet of our remaining tasks, their priorities, and disciplines to visualize what remained. 

Postmortem:

The project ran into several snags. The scope was too large, and there was unfamiliarity with integrating art assets into the game. The team composition was imbalanced, and miscommunication of intent frequently occurred. 

As the project went on, time was often not spent well, and group members were too separated for the pieces to come together. As a result, we had to scale the project back. We targeted a set of achievable goals, adjusted our project plan, and held work meetings to act collaboratively. This alleviated miscommunication, and the project’s state drastically improved. It did not turn out entirely as intended, and there were many mistakes made across the team dynamics and communication.

I learned a lot of lessons about managing a project with a larger team. Such as the importance of meetings and work meetings. I also learned to be more proactive with progress check-ins for the team. The biggest lesson I took away from Bee Game’s issues and successes was scope management. 

Bee Game needed a lot of work for its core loop. It was very difficult to scale down to a satisfying vertical slice. For future projects, I learned to focus on the bare minimum to demonstrate a concept and make sure that it is comfortably in the scope of the team so we can manage our risks without breaking the project.