LUCY ZHAI
About Scrollden
Scrollden is an indie cozy sandbox adventure game that blends exploration and resource management. Through exploration of the world, the player will encounter Spirit Animal companions and craft their perfect home base, creating their ideal life in this world.
Current game mechanics include building and planting system for players to construct their ideal home base.
Map exploration system that is still under development that incorporates resources gathering and management.
Project Management
Responsibility
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Led team meetings to track project progress and align objectives
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Create a milestone roadmap, monitor progress, and adjust plans
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Managed tasks, provided updates, and tracked project velocity
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Identify risks and quality issues, and develop mitigation strategies
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Improve and create better forms of communications between different departments
Being the Project Manager of this game includes working, and communicating among our Artists, Designers, and Programmers.
Tools and Methods Utilizes in this Project:
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Unity
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Notion
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Discord
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Scrum & Agile Methodologies
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Twitter(Or X)
Take Aways
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When spotted managing issues ahead of time, bring it up earlier than later.
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Get to know the group and their work habit and communication methods
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High responsiveness and familiarity of everyone's role and task is a must for effective management and communication
My Experiences So Far
This is the biggest game project I have taken on so far. Being one of the original members I saw this game being redesigned multiple times. After a long talk with our designers, programmers, and artists we decided to remake the game from 2D to 3D. Making it fit more into our intended art direction and balance out the workload for our programmers and artists. Having a big team means it is harder to make everyone's schedule align. In order to keep everyone updated, as the PM of this game I planned meetings to fit everyone's schedule as much as possible and arranged individual meetings for people who missed so everyone was caught up to speed.
