We presented our final game for Production II a few days back. That game is probably going to be the one we go forward with. The dog game and the space game are good, but we as a team just take this Gorgon city game more seriously.
It initially began as a game about Medusa, and how you were given a task by Hermes to steal her treasure, and because he gave you magic teleportation shoes, whenever you turned to stone, you were able to teleport, but leave a perfect stone replica of yourself where you were about to die.
But now my team has completely flipped the script, we’re keeping the enemies as gorgons, but that’s our only connection to Greek mythology. I’ve been busy trying to write the background story for our game, per the request of our team leader, Jaymee.
But the team keeps changing what they expect from the story. The first two miscommunications were simply that; miscommunications, but for the past few days, Garrett and Jaymee have basically been scolding me for continuously not including story aspects that one of them either only mentioned off-hand at one of our meetings (and which aren’t in our meeting logs), but also ones that I simply cannot include. But if they don’t like what I wrote, that’s fine, we can work together on another solution that does work, but they need to be willing to listen to my criticisms of their ideas for the story.
Because I do want to be able to work out these issues, as I can’t give them what they want; a coherent story, if I also do everything they’re telling me, but this is the kind of thing that might take some time to discuss, and Garrett gets very angry when that’s the case. He’s berated me twice over these last few days, telling me to shut up and move on, if things I bring up concerning the story take too long to discuss. But these are things that concern our game, if we don’t get them worked out now, when are we supposed to do that? We only have 8 days to finish everything.
I’m going to try to get these issues worked out in our meeting today in as little time as possible. I don’t want to make my teammates mad, and I’m sure they were just tired these last few days. It’s been stressful, they probably didn’t get much sleep, it’s Saturday, so everyone is probably more relaxed and rejuvenated, so I’m sure we can discuss this calmly, and work something out.