Ballistic Harbor

ballistic-harbour

2020–2021 · DigiPen Institute of Technology – SIT, Year 1 Semester 2 · Team project · Role: Team Lead & Coordinator, Gameplay / Core Programmer

Second team game project of the degree, delivered at the end of Semester 2 (Jan–Apr 2021). The step up from Build A Robot was as much organisational as technical — this time I ran the team as well as writing gameplay code.

Role and responsibilities

Team lead and coordinator, while also serving as a core gameplay programmer:

• Ran team coordination — task breakdown, scheduling against milestones, and keeping the project on track for submission
• Implemented core gameplay systems and the player-facing mechanics
• Acted as the point of contact between programming, design, and art, resolving cross-discipline blockers
• Debugged and stabilised the build ahead of each milestone

Learning outcomes

• Leading a team while still owning code — the first time I had to balance my own deliverables against unblocking everyone else’s
• Task breakdown and scheduling against hard milestone deadlines, including cutting scope when it stopped fitting
• Coordinating across programming, design, and art disciplines with genuinely different priorities
• Building gameplay systems the rest of the team could extend without going through me

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