Creating BIM'S: A Collaborative Game Development Story

Scene 1:

• Everyone shows up in a round table with computers thinking on what is the new game they will create.

• Poster: Brainstorm of ideas

• Carla: What game should we create now?

• Andrea: We can create a city!

• Bernardo: Yes! Let’s create a game that allows creating and simulating the life of your own avatar.

• Ines: That will be perfect! We can design clothes and accessories for the avatars

• Cuesta: That is a great idea, and it will not take too much time to code.

• Carla: We can also adapt the game so people can play using their smartphones.

• Everyone: Great let's call it... BIM’S!

Scene 2:

• Cuesta: You sit down in front of a computer and start typing codes. Let’s start with the coding

  • Question to Bernardo: Bernardo, do you remember the coding of how to make a person run?

  • Bernardo: Yes its this one...Types in the coding programme

  • Cuesta: Oh, thanks! I always forget that code!

• Andrea: What do you think about making the avatars blue?

• Ines: Let's make them with the rainbow colors

• Carla: Yes thats cool!!

• Andrea: Ok everybody now each one make the avatars of different colors with different body shapes.

• Everyone creates and Avatar

• Avatar with no clothing is placed on the front

• Andrea: They are perfect!!

• Ines: Let's start with the clothes they will use, Cuesta can you create a code for the avatars so they can turn around when they change their clothes?

• Cuesta: Yes of course Ines (Cuesta creates the code while the others design clothes)

• Ines tries on different styles and dressings on the avatar until she finds the one she likes the most

• Cuesta: So now we have to create a setting for the avatars to live in and to interact within each other

• Andrea: Since colors are so futuristic why not make houses for them to live as if they were from 2030

• Bernardo: Sure i'll help Cuesta with the coding for futuristic houses

• (create setting in poster)

• Carla: The game is starting to look perfect! Now we have to make it available for all types of platforms so the launch of the game is global

• Carla: Cuesta could you help me with the code for creating the app?

• Cuesta: Sure i'll create it and i'll send it over  

• Bernardo: I am going to create the  logo of the app and its cover, so the app looks engaging and we can have the most downloads ever.

• Bernardo: What do you think about using the same colors as the avatar for the logo?

• Ines: That is a great idea

• Carla is creating the app

• Andrea: The app should be really easy to use, that is why I recommend you that we have instructions at the beginning

• Bernardo: Yes that’s a good idea

• Carla finishes the app

• Bernardo: now we just have to finish the logo

• Everyone: Yay!!

• Ines: We are doing a great work together.

• Bernardo finishes the logo

• Andrea: Each one of us was a leader during this task, Cuesta with the coding, Ines with the clothing of the avatars, Carlita with the app, Bernardo with the logo and me with the avatars, we are such a great team!

Scene 3:

• Cuesta: Thats so task culture