[Day 2] Crafting Pitches

Medical Education

• Explore the human body and solve puzzles as you learn how cells interact.
  • This idea has a great impact on education. 

Warning on educational games: 

The games we are making should not be gratuitous but rather fun to play first and then have elements that make them impactful, because if games aren't fun, nobody will play them. So, it's good to have a clear strategy on how you're going to have an impact with your game, maximizing the number of players who are having fun, and through the process of having fun, are learning, rather than being forced to learn.

Cultural Appreciation

• Listen to songs from around the world and guess which country they come from to appreciate different styles of music.
  • This idea would make a great portfolio piece in education. 

Interpersonal Communication 

• Choose strategies to resolve conflict in a story-based or narrative-based game.
  
  • Educational impact.

Physical Health

• Gamify daily exercise routines.
  
  • Physical impact. 

Financial Literacy

• Players collect and manage the resources of a growing city-state learning about the important of balancing debt with spending amongst other gameplay elements. 
  • Educational impact. 

Warning on the importance of gameplay:

The games we make don't need to be totally overtaken by their impact, but rather they should season a great experience with a noble cause.

Community Building

• Build and manage a virtual community, making decisions that affect its harmony, diversity, teaching the value of community care.
  • Educational impact. 
  • A portfolio piece for designers.

Historical Appreciation 

• Give the world a fresh take on a history truly misunderstood today. Bring out a thrilling story that teaches people what really happened.
  • Political impact. 

The ideal game mixes your team's needs with the ability to make an impact.

🟢 Say: 🥇 Now we want to pair people opted out of pitching with those determined to go through. 

🟢 Say: Now we need to decide who's going to work on which idea. To do this, we need to assess our strengths, weaknesses, and availability.

Availability

🟢 Say: Let's start by figuring out what times we're available. We'll use a tool called Hammer Time, which translates our time zones for each other, as we're all in different time zones. Our objective is for all of us to understand the tool and to post a start and end time for each day of our availability.

🔹 Everyone should visit the following website "https://hammertime.cyou/" and work together to understand it. Namely, you should copy and paste different times and notice how it translates the time zone and talk about that.

Strengths

🟢 Say: Let's take a moment to discuss the required skills for making these projects a reality that we possess as strengths. This could be programming, art, communication, marketing, production, or any area where we feel talented.

🔹 Discuss. 

Weaknesses

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with weaknesses. 

🔹 Discuss. 

Experience 

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with experience. How long has everyone here been working, and at what kind of companies? Would you guys consider yourselves juniors, mid-levels, or seniors, and if so, how much professional experience do you have?

🔹 Discuss. 

🟦 Teaming Up

🟢 Say: Considering everyone's strengths, weaknesses, and skills and matching them with our ideas, let's discuss how to best split into 2 teams.

🥇🔹 Break up into teams of 3-4 people each backing 1 idea. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🟢 Say: Now we'll continue as individual teams. First, try the new feature by clicking on add voice channels to create your own voice and text chat in Discord. After setting it up, return here and bring your team members to your channel. Once we've split off, continue following the checklist under this header, "🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader" starting by electing a Team Facilitator.

🟢 Say: Say "I" in chat right now if you see the "electing a servant leader" part of the checklist.

🟢 Action: Wait until everyone says "I" and help those who don't. 

🔹 Try creating a channel by clicking the add voice chat button, then return to the original channel once successful. Once each team has a working channel and everyone has split up, continue the checklist as individual teams.

🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader

Electing a Facilitator

🔹 The first thing we need to do is elect a meeting facilitator. This person will only lead to read out the next 10 steps.

🔹 @name yourself in chat now if you want to volunteer! 

🔹 🟢 is now the facilitator's responsibility. 🔹 is still everyone's responsibility. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🔹 🥇 Your goal is to ensure everyone watches this video: https://youtu.be/oqmbiuAafUg

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"

🟢 Say: All [P1] projects are created democratically without leaders dominating others.

🟢 Say: If at any point your team feels that your leader is not able to contribute enough time, you may take a vote to replace them in their role. 50% of voters must be present and agree to make such a replacement. 

🟢 Say: Generally, aim to make group decisions by building consensus rather than a majority vote. Putting personal feelings aside and being objective about what's best for the team is critical.

🟢 Say: Whoever you elect as your Servant Leader will be your long term team project manager. 

🟢 Say: You can also choose to split roles, appointing a Project Manager to facilitate teams and one person as your Product Owner who has the final say. It's up to you.

🟢 Say: Remember that all teams are democratic, and you can replace leaders or join a different team if you don't have faith in a particular leader. But whatever you do, do these things subtly, kindly, and with understanding for each other, encouraging each other as human beings toward your long-term success. 

🔹 Elect a Servant Leader and, if you like, a separate Product Owner. 

• Nominate candidates by @tagging them
• Or step up by @tagging yourself
• Congratulate those who step up 👏
• Use 👍emoji for the person you want to lead
• Don't elect the same person twice in a row. 

🟢 = The elected Project Manager's responsibility.

🟢 Say: The first thing we need to do is decide on a time when we can meet daily. Many developers encourage having no zero days on their project, so it's best if we have one hour lined up every day until the deadline (not including weekends).

🟢 Say: To decide on a time, we use a specific method. First, I'll use Hammertime to suggest a time I'm available, and everyone hits the like button if they can meet then daily. If not, they should post their own time in Hammertime. The time with the most likes wins typically.

🔹 Choose a daily meeting time. Avoid the [P1] meeting time as you should all attend that too. 

🟢 Say: Now you must decide who's going to be in charge when the team servant leader is not available. 

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: Now, you need to decide who's going to be in charge of onboarding new team members, as tomorrow we're going to talk about how to grow your teams so that you have all the skills you need on your team.

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: The 2nd thing we need to do is get an appropriate game pitch up. We shouldn't aim for perfection yet, as we'll have time tomorrow to iterate, but a basic pitch should be done now.

🔹 Open the game pitch guide.

🟢 Say: Let's read it together. Say "I" when you're done.

🟢 Action: Wait for everyone to say "I."

🔹 Work together to get the bare-bones submitted right away. Then assign tasks as-to who will do what before you meet again tomorrow. You should ideally have a lot of time to finish tomorrow itself before you pitch on the 3rd day. 

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"