Assignment 7: Glucagame

This week’s assignment was to continue with the game developed last week and deliver a production ready version. Our game is designed for a target audience of high school students and can be used in biology lessons to provide a more intuitive understanding of glucose, insulin and diabetes.

After a brief discussion with our group, we decided that I would take the lead this time. I wanted to do that, because it’s a position I’m not very experienced in and I thought it may a great opportunity to develop myself in that aspect. This worked out quite well, although I may have picked up a few more non-management tasks than would be ideal. Especially near the end of the process, I noticed it was harder to combine management with completing tasks.

The extra tasks I picked up were contributing to the documentation on the topic of learning theory (for which I had to read some documents) and making the print ready designs based on the instructions provided by my team mates. I chose to do the last task, because no one else in the team had relevant experience with this or was looking to pick it up as a skill. Since I’ve already got years of experience in the relevant tools, I knew I could make something in relatively little time.

Results

Our teamwork resulted in the following documents. The cards are also displayed in the image above.

• Print ready playing cards
• Print ready instruction leaflet
• Documentation of our process and choices (Dutch)

In the end, I’m quite satisfied with the results. Unfortunately, it was hard to find free stock images that suited our needs, so we had to resort to using watermarked placeholders for now, which is something I usually try to avoid. If we had more time available, we could have drawn the images ourselves, or if we had any budget at all, we could have purchased the rights for the images. I do think we managed to produce a good looking, fun and most importantly educational game, which is a result I’m quite content with.