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Miranda Zoom
Game
Released on iOS, Android, MacOS, and PC
Date
2017
Adventure Academy is an MMO for Middle Schoolers. They go on quests, and some of these quests are learning games. I was asked to create a team called GSDK to build these games. This is a steam punk inspired visual story book with some animation. The theme was cracking cyphers as a secret agent, while we were really teaching prefixes and postfixes by appending or prepending the correct choice.
I created about 5 small cross-functional teams. We used a hybrid unique Kanban method that tracked only major stages, as they were smallish games and stages could be met within 1 or 2 sprints. I gave the teams a lot of autonomy with stand-ups and check-ins, but mostly tracked the stages concept/prototype/alpha/beta/final. The teams really liked the freedom, enjoyed that they could make any call with their team to get to the next stage quickly.
It was a good model, all teams enjoyed it. and they generated game content very fast.