{"id":1346,"date":"2021-06-26T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patricioland.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2021-08-24T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T06:49:23","slug":"gdd730-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patricioland.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"GDD730 Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"\u00a0Many things have happened over the first days of this new study block. Welcome to the party!
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Here we go again!<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

By the time I’m writing this, the mentor’s feedback and grades from GDD710 have significantly ‘delayed.’ Because of the pandemic, the University granted a two-week extension to all students to give extra time to complete assessments, and at some point, I started to feel more concerned about the results achieved during the first study block than the new challenges that are coming up.
\nWithout realising whether I had succeeded or not, I did not feel like getting too involved in a new project without a clear picture of what might improve or change when getting on a new challenge.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, during the last few days of the previous part, we had to create teams of five people to work on this new project that will keep us entirely busy during the current period.<\/p>\n

Having worked as a team during a big part of the previous stage, this did not seem to be a problem. In fact I know from experience that a good effort on the part of several people working together is needed to develop complex artefacts as the game prototypes we are continuing developing during the following months.<\/p>\n

Would you like to join our team?<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

After a couple of ‘mixer sessions,’ I agreed with whom I considered one of the most outstanding students on this MA about sharing efforts and ideas. Team with her made me feel delighted and honoured since I have been following, with great interest, her detailed progress on her personal reflective blog during the last term.<\/p>\n

As we still need three more members, two ‘old teams’ came together as one after a few discussions. I thought it was an exciting agreement based on every participant’s skills. However, I was slightly concerned about the fact that we all belonged to the game development area without any participant being part of the UXD. Over a few days, I felt worried about this issue. Finally, I concluded that we all were qualified enough to get over this handicap.<\/p>\n

Anticipating the task that was going to be proposed to us in the next module, it was time to choose a name for the team. We did a poll on Discord to vote for several candidates, and to my surprise, my idea was mostly accepted:<\/p>\n

The<\/span>\u00a0Wild Branch\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

For the\u00a0<\/span>Canvas activities on week 1<\/span><\/a>, we had to go through a personality test. We were are encouraged to use the forms on\u00a0<\/span>Truity<\/span><\/a>, but other alternatives were welcomed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Personally speaking, this would have been a more helpful tool\u00a0<\/span>before<\/span><\/em>\u00a0creating the groups. I’m saying this because what happened with our group a few days later could have been anticipated somehow (more about this here<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

What is more, I have my serious concerns when this kind of stuff is being carried out by algorithms, not supervised by a real professional in real-time. Even when being assessed and re-interpreted by the participants themselves, I don’t think the conclusions were free from unintentional manipulation or other unconscious or conscious influences.<\/span><\/p>\n

While self-administered web questionnaires are increasingly used in psychological and market research, the quality of collected data has to be continuously inspected. (Harms 2017)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did several personality tests in the past for job interviews and to help my wife on his psychology studies, but rarely do I care about them. That being said I have to admit that the outcome I obtained using the\u00a0<\/span>Big Five<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span>Type Finder<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(mainly as a control test for the first one) surprised me at first sight.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was expecting more extreme results, especially for the Openness and Conscientiousness sections. Still, thinking about it more carefully, I admit that this makes a lot of sense at this point in my life and career: I find myself more balanced now than when I was younger, and I found this quite an achievement, especially when it comes to seeing the negative side of things or being absurdly pessimistic (neuroticism, hello old good friend!). I have probably been too rigorous with myself when answering the questions, so the Openness<\/strong> and Conscientiousness<\/strong> grades could be slightly different.<\/p>\n

In any case, this is what I got:<\/p>\n

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Fig 1 – Big Five and TypeFinder personality test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Fig 2 – Team Performance Curve\u00a0for The Wild Branch on Week 1 based upon Katzenback and Smith scheme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Personal and professional Goals<\/span><\/h1>\n

In parallel with this, the world keeps revolving. Over these days, the good news is that the developers of\u00a0<\/span>Playdate<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(a new indie game handheld) finally announced the release date of. This wacky yellow wonder has drawn my attention since it came out two years ago. For God’s sake, it has a crank!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig 3 – Playdate tiny handheld by Panic Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As soon as I knew about its development, I applied to get one of the few development kits. But, unfortunately, I was not selected by the manufacturers in the first round. So now I have to wait until the end of July to investigate the possibility of getting one and exploring the chance to develop games for this system.<\/p>\n