2D Management and Narrative Game Demo
Bed and BEAKfast is a management, cooking, and narrative game. Play as Robin and return to your hometown to regrow the bed and breakfast left to you by your late grandfather. Cook meals, connect with the community, and forge lasting relationships!
An early demo titled "Bed and BEAKfast" is free on Steam and on Itch.io!
Platform: PC (Mac + Windows)
Role: Producer and Art Director
Team Size: 8
Development Time: 2 years, part-time
Production Contributions
- Organized and facilitated Scrum meetings including sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
- Adjusted processes to better fit the team's needs.
- Assisted communication across disciplines within team.
- Evaluated scope at each checkpoint, and adjusted backlog to fit long-term goals.
- Worked with designers and engineers to prioritize features according to the project's needs.
- Created a layered scope plan based on prioritization to iterate upon our core loop and to keep each subteam working towards the same reachable goals.
- Evaluated existing tools for tracking tasks, adjusting them or creating new tools and methods when needed.
Agile
Due to the changing nature of the team's time commitments, we employed Agile Scrum to organize development, ensuring flexibility in both our product and our processes. The team used Scrum at first, finding that two-week sprints worked best to organize development. However, in the second year of development, the team switched to Kanban, favoring the focus on consistent workflows to be more beneficial.
Jira
We used Atlassian's Jira to create, organize, and point our backlog, plan for each sprint, and to track our velocity.
Miro
Miro's whiteboard workspace was used to visualize tasks and workflows as the developers' time commitments shifted.