Introduction - Tuovi Eskelinen

My name is Tuovi, a 21-year-old student with network security as the main study field. I'm part of the art team in this project. I saw this project as possibility to learn how to do 3D modelling and computer graphics. Drawing has always been close to my heart and on later age character design as well. By playing all sorts of games I've seen characters of lots of different kind of and consider it one of my strengths. I've got no previous experience in 3D modelling but the topic has always been fascinating to me so I'm more than eager to learn every sort of trick there is about 3D animation and modelling. That might be my weakness but at the same time my strength. I'm eagerly looking forward on working with the team and the project owner as this is a wonderful chance to gain work experience on real working life projects.

You'll hear more from me when our team has some of the art ready to be shown publically.
Bye for now, yours Tuovi.

Introduction - Sampsa Kaskela

My name is Sampsa Kaskela. I'm a 24 year old software developer with 4 years of development experience. I mainly focus on games and web development. I have strong programming skills and my main languages are C# and JavaScript. I'm currently working as a Front-End Web Developer in a software company. Previously, I have done a lot of UI development and created core mechanics for the games. Most notable is AI for a RTS game. I prefer to split big problem to many small problems. This allows me to design systems that have many small entities that interact with each other and are easy to maintain. I expect to learn more about game development and game design during this project and I try to improve my design and problem solving skills.

Vladimir. Introduction.

Hi, my name is Vladimir Sakharov and this is a little something about me. I'm a 21 year old guy studying Game Development and most of the things I'm interested in revolve around games and movies! For the past year or so I've spent plenty of time working on different projects at the Turku Game Lab, and that taught me that my biggest strength is getting things done, while my greatest weakness is polishing those same things to make them 100% presentable. I'm really looking forward to working on this project and hope it will help me improve my game development skills and teaches me a lot about making things not just work, but work properly!

Our Rules

Project rules and guide lines

• Communication language is English, and if problems arise, Finnish can be used to solve the communication problem.
• We will create a harmonious space for everyone to work.
•  The team meetings and deadlines  are planned in advance so that everyone has time to organize and react to them.
• Every team member must participate to every team meeting, coaching classes, and other work related gathering events or must inform before if he/she is not capable of joining.
• Firstly, the team organizes regular face to face meetings; then the use of social media platform or other web based communication platform must be unanimously agreed between team members.
• Whatsapp will be used for easy regular discussion
• Google Drive is to be used to share files and as a working environment
• Blog can be edited by all members of the team
• Team sessions will be used efficiently
• I share my ideas, and I give my opinions/what I think to my team members.
• If I am confused or do not understand, I ask help from my team members.
• Beyond the team, we help each others and are open to discussing about differences (in personalities/cultures/working methods)
• I will always listen to my team members and do my best to understand their opinions and ideas:
• When disagreeing with someone, I will always do it in a respectful manner (eg. instead of saying “you are wrong”, I will say “this idea may not entirely be accurate” and I always explain why).
• When disagreeing, I do it with rationalization.
• I create, share and respect.
• Whenever we face problems we openly discuss the problem.

Re-alignment rules:   

1. If after open discussions about disobeying the above rules twice, and the person still fails to apply the rules will we start considering to leave the person out of this project

Members

We have 7 members working on the project

1. Eskelinen Tuovi
2. Frans Auranen
3. Gaurav Bikram Thapa
4. Jussi Inkeroinen
5. Sanna Kulesova
6. Sampsa Kaskela
7. Vladimir Sakharov

Who we are

We are the members of the project Exman3D. Today we got to meet each other and get familiar with project, the premises and the workflow expected from us in the duration of this project. After that, we got to our first task of the project, which would be creating an Optima page and a blog(it's the one you're reading right now!) for this team.

ExMan-3D is a sims-like game aimed at service industry professionals,  where you play the role of the office manager taking care of a restaurant, so most of us chose it due to our interest in creating art in general and video-games specifically!