Software projectmanagement

Android game development

- 3 D Adventure

Short description

The project reflects the development of a 3D game.

The phases of the game include the creation of the game and the story and characters definition

Being an android application, time is also an issue. The whole process should not take longer than a few months

Resources (1) We have a team of nine competent people.

=> A few team member swill have multiple roles.

Software Roles:

Project manager: Indy

Game designers: Garry, Gwen

Artist: Ariana

Programmers: Peter, Penny, Perry, Garry

Technical director: Gwen

Testers: Tweak, Peter, Penny

Animator: Andrew

Resources (2)

Work hour costs in normal conditions:

Wages: 7-9$ / hr

The project manager and Game designers earn more

Work hour costs in case of overtime:

For everyone: 9$ / hr

Constrains & Risks There are two major constrains:

most important: money

constrain: time

The planning will be done by the project manager. He will try to reduce the cost to a minimum.

=> No overtime!

• Overtime is only for special situations and it has to be agreed by the project manager and person in issue.

Project phases:

Concept

Planning and design

Development (pre-alpha)

Testing (alpha)

Release

Maintenance and bug fixes

General Overview

ConceptPlanning and Design

Development and Testing

ReleaseMaintenance and bug fixes

Project cost

Conclusions We have used Microsoft Project to manage

our android application.

We chose it because it allowed us to enter the tasks in a list, to schedule them, to assign resources to these tasks, and to enter costs for all the phases and resources while tracking the changes.

Microsoft Project is useful from the very first step since it supplies some templates that we can use for a specific kind of project