Virtual Reality

1.5 months 12 developers

Crow’s Nest is a chaotic co-op adventure where two treasure-hungry crows sail a fragile boat through perilous waters in search of riches. Players must communicate and coordinate to steer, shoot, and patch up their leaking ship while fending off hostile sea creatures. With four side-mounted cannons and limited time, teamwork is key to surviving the voyage and earning enough treasure for the crows’ dream: a real ship.
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Development

Development

Concepting

During the concepting of this game, we took ‘Lovers in a dangerous spacetime’ as reference. Artists and designers made concept art & charts.

Development

Prototyping

We prototyped the game in engine, to get familiar with unreal engine and to test if the game actually works.

Development

Playtesting

As designers and producer, we playtested the game with the target audience to make sure the game was fun to play.

Problem solving

Problem solving

Team aligment

This is the first time anyone in the team has ever worked in a team to make a game. This caused some misalignment due to inexperience, to align members on certain parts I created easy overviewable documents on specific feedback systems.

Problem solving

Workflow management

I resolved a problem between the team together with my system designer. The game included a lot of technical design, which misaligned the team. To realign them, we created this feature spec document, which worked very well.

Production tools

Project tools

Miro board

This was the first time using a Miro board in a team, it looks messy but it got the job done, and helped us make a great game.

Project tools

Scrum board

I set up a Scrum board in KanbanFlow to organize tasks and track sprint progress. It provided a clear overview of what the team was working on each week.

Project tools

Retro & Review

During the development of this game, we used retrospectives and review to improve our teamwork.