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MIRIAM PROSNITZ: My
name is Miriam Prosnitz,

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and I was on Team Heatwave.

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You play and there are
characters who move around.

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And different people
who are at risk

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for being vulnerable
to heatwaves

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move around the screen.

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So one person was in
charge of researching

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who are those people?

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And another person
was in charge of OK,

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I'm going to make
a character object.

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And we split up all
of those, actually,

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right at the
beginning so that we

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knew who to contact about what.

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And then, based off of that,
we would come together and say,

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what needs to be done, and
whose job is it, and is that

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still balanced in terms
of who's working on what?

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And it worked out
really well actually.

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Actually, funny enough,
I took this course solely

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because I had no computer
science courses this semester.

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Because I was
abroad last year, I

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did a full year of
engineering coursework.

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And I was like, don't need
any more requirements,

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might as well just
take one for fun.

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So here I am in
Creating Video Games.

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And so my goal was to write
code, and the funniest thing--

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and I'm not representative
of my team at all--

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I'm like the one
person in this class

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who has not written
a single line of code

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this entire semester,
because I ended up

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being project manager a lot.

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And so what I learned is a
lot of the process-- a lot

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of making things
work, is really just

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emailing people, calling them
on the phone, being like,

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are you supposed to be at
this meeting right now,

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going and buying
snacks for a meeting.

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You think it's like
silly, you know,

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nobody really needs
to get snacks.

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But I've been told
by my teammates

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that if I hadn't gotten snacks,
they wouldn't have come.

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So--

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I learned a lot about
the project management

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and the work that goes on
behind the scenes, which I've

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seen before, but I just
didn't realize the scale of it

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in games.

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Something I would give
feedback about this class

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is I really like the fast pace
of the first three projects.

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And this project, because
it was so much longer time,

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the team was so much larger, and
we had this kind of set topic

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we had to deal with, I
didn't enjoy it as much.

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As I mentioned, one of the
main issues for our team

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was passion.

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At the end of the
day, I can summarize

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what you should do in a
heatwave in like two sentences.

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That doesn't make for a
very interesting game.

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So that's something I would
say, if I was to do it again,

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I would've played the game where
you play with the heatwave,

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and you try to attack
people, because that

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sounds like more fun.

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And I think that's
the other thing

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I learned about games--
that you really have to care

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about what you're making.

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Somebody mentioned in
one of the presentations

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that for the last project we
would submit these sprint task

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lists, and they
wouldn't necessarily

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be what people
actually would do,

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because people were so busy
at the end of the semester.

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For my team, if it was the case
that we hadn't done something,

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I would put it on the
sprint task list again.

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But I didn't have to, and
if I hadn't done that,

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then there would've
been a big divergence

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between what we
said we were doing

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and what we were actually doing.

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So as an educator,
I would really

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say check-in on your team.

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See actually what they've done.

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Make sure they're
setting realistic goals

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and following through on them.