Blog Hours
This page contains my dev-blog information, where I break down my weekly hours, overall highlighting what I accomplished each week.
Continue reading to see how my hours are broken down.
Pre-Gold 1 Sprint (Nov. 29th, 2021 - Dec. 5th, 2021)
Pre-Gold 1: 15.75 Total Work Hours
*Nov. 29th - Monday: N/A
*Nov. 30th - Tuesday: N/A
*Dec. 1st - Wednesday: 1.5 Hours total,
From 9pm - 10:30pm ET I attended a WolverineSoft Studio playtesting session going over both games entering the Pre-Gold 1 Sprint/Week.
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*Dec. 2nd - Thursday: 1.25 Hours total,
From 7:00pm - 8:15pm ET I attended the WolverineSoft general meeting.
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*Dec. 3rd - Friday: 2 Hours total,
I attended the in-person work session from around 8:30pm - 10:30pm ET.
At here I created the WolverineSoft TikTok account, researched how to post on the platform, and unleashed our first post!
It got over 500 views and 20+ likes within 24 hours despite being just our first post when we had 0 followers. TikTok's crazy!
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*Dec. 4th - Saturday: 1.5 Hours total,
From 8:30am - 8:45am I cleaned out any clutter on the LinkedIn accounts (mine and the WolverineSoft ones) and invited people to follow our page.
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From 10:45am - 11:00am I took a look at our TikTok account's 1st post.
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From 12:30pm - 1:00pm ET I created a post of our game io!
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From 11:30pm - 12:00am ET I created a post of our game Circuitry!
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*Dec. 5th - Sunday: 9.5 Hours total,
From 11:00am - 12:00pm ET I attended the WolverineSoft Studio weekly meeting.
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From 12:30pm - 4:00pm I worked on creating social media posts and building up our new accounts.
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From 4:00pm - 6:30pm ET I applied to be one of the 7 WolverineSoft club Officers, specifically as the entire club's Marketing Lead.
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From 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET I recorded 20+ 5-second gameplay clips and sent them to Amber Renton (WolverineSoft Studio president) to be kept for future social media use by WolverineSoft Studio.
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BUGS AND PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED *Problem: Being busy with finals; I'm taking 20 credits and grading 2 classes this semester while working a part-time business job. *Problem: Having trouble learning how to post with TikTok (have to use phone and computer for optimal results). *Problem: Desperately needing to get more social media content on our WolverineSoft Studio accounts. TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES USED: *Solution: Prioritize tasks where others depend on me first (including WolverineSoft Studio), then tasks that will benefit me individually. *Solution: Researched how to post with TikTok, didn't stop until got a clean looking post up. *Solution: Posted on multiple platforms (Linked, Twitter, and TikTok) across multiple days. SUCCESSFUL TASKS: *Getting up a TikTok post and getting 500+ views and 20+ likes/hearts within 24 hours despite starting off with 0 Followers! *Posting on social media accounts throughout the week so each account (except Instagram and TikTok) have a decent amount of content on the profiles. *Recording the 20+ 5-second gameplay videos, turning them in by the date I said I would. That was much easier than I thought it would be. UNSUCCESSFUL TIME INVESTMENTS: *A lot of my time was attending playtesting sessions (while informative I could've learned a lot about the current state of the games by playing them myself). *Several times logging into social media accounts, only to get sidetracked by some other task/class and not end up posting. *I still overall don't feel like too much of my time was wasted, especially as much of my work is creating long-term workflows, which means I might not have much immediate progress yet, yet I also think I got immediate progress this semester as well! STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING IN FUTURE SPRINTS: *Organizing social media schedule at beginning of each Sprint and having someone hold me accountable to stick to it. *Creating a similar Airtable (assuming Winter 2022) during Preproduction instead of Alpha 2 Sprint. *Using more time to research ideas (now for how to get the most views, impressions, and best algorithms for social medias) *Continuing to format this website, overall cleaning up a lot of my work and further summarizing it. *Writing up my dev-blog entries DURING the sprints instead of waiting until the end (I do think I was better in Fall 2021 than Winter 2021 at this though).