Industry Practice - Week 15:

In this blog I will be talking about PEGI, what we chose for our age rating and why and what was discussed in our team meeting. 

PEGI:

We decided near the start of the project that we wanted a high PEGI rating so we chose to go with PEGI 16 as we wanted to make sure that we weren't restricted by the age rating for the game so we could speak relatively freely about the topics that we brought up in the game without having to worry too much about what we put into the game as we wanted to it to be informative and truthful. 

What do the labels mean [online]. Pegi: About Pegi. Available at: https://pegi.info/what-do-the-labels-mean [Accessed 20 February 2025]

We did consider going for PEGI 12 as we thought that PEGI 16 would be a little high for what we wanted to include in the game however after a lot of consideration we thought it would be best to go with PEGI 16 due to how we wanted to show the way mental health can affect someone.


What do the labels mean [online]. Pegi: About Pegi. Available at: https://pegi.info/what-do-the-labels-mean [Accessed 20 February 2025]

Team Meeting:

Date: 31/01/2025
In Attendance: Katie, Lottie, Jess, Ed, Louie, Jacob
Meeting Agenda & My Role: To see where everyone was with work and reassign if needed
Decisions and/or Actions & Deadlines: We reassigned the script and I assigned Lottie to creating concepts for the main character for when they are seen.
Resources: Discord
Other Reflections: I need to make sure to keep on top of what everyone is doing and that everyone has a task and is working on them as I feel as though we are falling behind.

After talking with Rachel about the script not being done yet where it should have been a few weeks ago where we are still in the draft phase we were worried about having to catch up as we are quite behind. We talked to Rachel and she suggested reassigning the script so that someone else could work on it. Me and Louie were going to work on it as we could work on it in lesson however I ended up writing it and sending it to everyone to get feedback on the draft I made for the 4th day and just need to finish day 5 and edit what Lottie wrote so that it was more consistent writing between all the days so that it sounds like the same person writing all the days. 

Once I had reassigned Lottie to making concept art instead of creating a script she created some concepts the same day that I had given her the task which I felt slightly annoyed about as she could have come to me and said that she didn't want to do the script any more which would have been fine as there were other things I could of had her working on and others in the group had offered to help with the script however she didn't take them up on the offer and then when I do change her to concept art she completes it in one day where it took her quite a while to do the script. I would have rather her come to me and ask to make concept art instead or her say that she didn't want to work on the script so would work on her concept art that she was already assigned so that I could reassign her sooner so that we could be ahead of where we are now. 

(Lolo :3 is Lottie's username)


I do feel bad as I assigned Jacob to help Lottie with the script as he did offer however and she did reach out to ask him for help and he did reply to it however I have been told that he didn't help her when she asked and hasn't helped with the script at all.


I wanted to make sure that we had the concepts finalised slightly earlier than the formative deadline so that we could focus on using the extra week as contingency time if needed or to work on getting design sheets of them with colour choices so that Jess could take it and render them so we could see how they would look.