Desolation Place Post-Mortem

After Desolation Place's development, my team had a post-mortem where we reflected on our experience. Below is a summary of what we discussed.

What Went Well

The player experience was gradually improved on every sprit, with impactful iterations on UI, gameplay, and player guidance.
No scope creep occured within the team; all features planned and implemented by the player team made it into the final game.
The 4 remaining developers on the team felt supported throughout the process; they felt that they were given actionable and quick feedback on their feature implementations.
Members felt comfortable communicating with the team lead (Nigel) and collaborating amongst each other on their tasks.

Due to time constraints, some UI features were developed with no regard for reusability in future studio projects.
Player audio needs a bit more polish (such as stopping background music when a player is in its death animation).
One member unexpectedly dropped the project, and became unresponsive to messages from the player team lead and studio producer reaching out to him.

Ensure that members utilize WolverneSoft Studio's general library of scripts early on in development.
Encourage members of the studio to develop scripts in a way that can make them reusable in upcoming studio projects.
For mid-week check-ins, attempt to set up one on one voice chat meetings with members instead of direct messaging. This will allow me to get a better sense of each developer's working conditions and a better gauge of their progress.
Be prepared to reassign tasks to other team members if the current assignee is feeling overwhelmed or becomes unresponsive.