Activity Information
Date: 6th to 15th November 2020
Venue: Google Meet
Organizer: Computer Graphics and Multimedia Association (CGMA)
University: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor
Graduate Attributes
- Communication Skills
- Thinking Skills
- Leadership and Teamworking Skills
Role
Participant who is responsible to Environment and Props
Report
Press Start to Play 2020 (PRESTA '20) is a game development challenge for Computer Science (Graphics and Multimedia Software) students. It was conducted for 2SECV and 3SCSV students. It is a program where the participants need to complete a game development challenge in 10 days. I had joined this program to learn something new which is building a 2D mobile game.
The Graduate Attributes that are focused on are communication skills, leadership and teamworking skills. Besides, thinking skills is also focused on to be creative for building an interesting game.
Firstly, all of the participants have a meeting on Google Meet platform to discuss and know what they should do in this program. Next, as a participant for Environment and Props, I started to find the images for props such as fire extinguisher, grass, table, chair and computer to resize and make them suitable for the games. Then, our Environment and Props team held a Google Meet to combine the game background and props images together. After adding the sound effects, characters and texts to the game, PRESTA '20 team is successfully building a 2D mobile game which is shown in the video.
Reflection
For self-reflection in this program, the impact of this activity on the development of the students’ Graduate Attributes is developing strong communication skills between team members. Successful communication helps us better understand PRESTA '20 team members and build trust to solve problems together. Besides, leadership and teamworking skills can be improved because PRESTA '20 is a program which requires the cooperation and commitment of the whole team of PRESTA '20. Furthermore, we can also enhance our thinking skills while sharing creative ideas for the development of game.
From this activity, I have learnt how to build a 2D mobile game as additional knowledge during my university life. I have improved my communication skills which is not only essential in the university, but also play a key role at the work place to build a successful career. Furthermore, I have learnt how to think out of the box for creating more interesting game.
The challenge for this activity is it is difficult to resize and make the props images suitable in the game, but luckily we have guided by the 3SCSV seniors and successfully make it. Besides, another challenge for this activity is we cannot determine a game theme from the start, so we just follow the majority to choose a theme among the choices.