Goal :

• I wanted to further hone my Unreal skills.

• It was not planned, but being a team of 14 it became a goal for me to be able to manage such a crowd for a jam.

• The whole jam group spoke english (for one of us couldn't understand french), so first managing + managing in english experience for a big team.

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Constraints :

• Theme : Lost and Found

• 5 Days (most of us couldn't work before the week end, so not really 5 full days of jamming there)

• Really big team for a jam

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Learning occured :

• I learned that my Unreal skills improved. I was the most experienced with Unreal in our team, so was there to help the Programmers deal with collision issue and such.

• That a team of 14 for a jam was a bad idea, I was sure of it before we really started, but the experience was fun nonetheless.

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Mistakes were made :

• Tracking ideas and communications was rough, and at one point I let the artistic team alone for a day, they ended up producing way too much assets I could implement.

• I should've put a clear stop half a day prior to the deadline for people to stop add things.

• Merging in Level Design with two Landscape components didn't do well to our speed, we had many issue to correct.

• I gave some Programmers too much credit and let them do their magic, resulting with a few features that I deemed core not being implemented (ability to grapple directly into the flying weapon while game is slowed).

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Challenge :

• I had to help Programmers with Unreal BP (some were new to this), myself not being super confident with my BP skills.

• I couldn't start Level Designing at the right scale before the third day, the programmers were working on the Third Person Character and it's hook mechanic.

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Why did it work well :

• I was the go to guy in term of design and big picture decision, reducing the risk of chaos.

• I worked with verry talented Artists, Programmers and Sound Designer (as it can be seen in the video or directly in the game).

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