Teamwork

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So these past two weeks have been a full array of confusion, doubt, trial-and-error, but all in the lightheartedness of fun, eagerness, and diverse talent.

Some didn’t know what we were doing, questions were raised, App-inventor was like a 3-year old beast that we were trying to tame. But the thing we had going for the lot of us is that we had a game plan. The brainstorming, the planning…that was surprisingly the fast and easy part. We all chose the type of app to be a game, full of role-play, the environment was a party/club setting, alcoholic, and not gonna lie it is very frat-boy like…with a dash of WattPad…definitely low-budget PG-13 in the running for a placement in the Sundance Film Festival….but it was funny and not in a completely inappropriate way, so I rolled with it.

We tried splitting roles but because on Day One we were missing a few people, we kinda had the ball rolling on the idea of what kind of app we wanted and then shared roles once we all came together. For example, I was initially the primary note-taker, but then Santiago had drawn a flowchart of each of the steps of the app, Chris would make a narrative for voiceovers, I would do trial-and-error on App Inventor with Tyler, while Logan would make codes with Santiago, who also did it with Tyler, and then Chris and I looked up photos and sounds for them to use…and so on. Not one person had a completely specific role to play and we all were doing something to make it work. It was probably the most smoothest and chillest group setting to be in and we had a good time doing it. Also Chris bought donuts.

In the end, we were able to get functionality, the hardest part (the 5 blocks of code) done, basically a good 65-70% was completed. And because of the trial-and-error phases, we knew exactly how to put the rest in place….easy stuff.