I have been hard at work not working on Hero's Realm: Heroic Edition, but instead building a project management framework around which I hope to, well, manage the project as it goes forward.



Here is what I have accomplished in (roughly) the past 3 weeks:

• Launched Hero's Realm: Heroic Edition gameprofile
  
• Launched HR Twitter @heros_realm
  
• Launched kentona Patreon
  
• Made arrangements with Bigwig for monster sprites and concept art
  
• Made arrangements with Avee for character sprites and battlechars (and had further discussions)
  
• Made arrangements with zDS and pianotm for music
  
• Created a detailed budget
  
• Created a project management portfolia on Zoho Connect for team members to collaborate
  
• Created a master resource tasklist outlining every asset that needs to be created
  
• Created a project tracking spreadsheet for tasklists, milestones, and dependencies (includes time budgets)
  
• Tweeted things!
  
• Posted things on Patreon!
  
• Made a couple of blog posts here!
  

I have done next-to-nothing on the game itself in that time!

For all of my projects, I start with a single text file. I write down all of my brainstorming ideas in a semi-haphazard way. As more design and ideas come, I start organizing the text file into different sections. When it gets long enough, I even add a table of contents to the start of the document so I can quickly jump around the document with keyboard shortcuts. Once I get to a point where even that grows unwieldly, I separate out the high-level components into their separate text documents OR I create a single spreadsheet document with many different tabs to track different aspects of the game. Usually by the point I need to organaize my projects in this way, things are pretty set. By that I mean, investing the time to catalog everything in a spreadsheet isn't a wasted effort.

This remaster has reached that stage.

Is it worth a celebration? Perhaps. It does mean that I feel this project is solid enough to invest the time to this level of organization. The likelihood of this project being completed also shot up dramatically.

I could go into greater detail on the project management side of things, but I am not sure if anyone would be interested in how I added items to a spreadsheet and why...

Would anyone be interested in an article (or more likely, a series of articles) describing in detail how I am going about managing the Hero's Realm remastering project?

As an example of how far my text file for HRDX.txt (DX means Deluxe!), here is my Table of Contents:



The document is 4530 lines as of this blog post.


In any event, thanks for reading. Here is a picture of Holdana swinging a sword.




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