Week 6 - Tiago Delgado

This week was all about planning and conduction workshop sessions with our focus group to help creating and exploring ideas for the game.

My colleague's had prepared an initial workshop plan to present to our teacher, who helped us understanding what activities might not work so well and some alternatives. With this information, we got together to prepare a detailed workshop plan: we defined a couple of ice-breakers, followed by a contextualizing presentation of our prototypes, and some creative activities, aiming for a workshop of about one hour and fifty minutes, to try and keep it under the two hour mark if anything didn't go according to plan. We decided on making two separate sessions, one on Friday with non Portuguese-speaking participants, and another on Saturday with Portuguese speakers.

Today we had our first workshop session, which went as well as we could have hoped for. With Bernardo doing a great job as the moderator, the group meshed well together and were able to give some very enlightening  insights. We clocked in at just about an hour and fifty minutes, according to plan. Following the session we reviewed how it went and tried to improve the plan for the following session, which we'll conduct tomorrow.