Some more musings

Journey of another

When I was selected as a shadow member of skill, the only thing I knew was that I am going to do some work which I might be able to understand. Trust me, I never had this feeling about any subject/ work. So we started with skill work. Teams were formed. We were given the task to build some games. It so happened that on the day of presenting the games my team members (including me) were not present and we got a good rough from the senior committee. So what to do!!! With confidence like the one that India will win the next hockey world cup we presented our games and Whoa!!! Our games brought us a lot of appreciation. But as they say with big games there are big responsibilities. So we started building on our games. When we were halfway through our first game we realised that the framework on which our game was based will not help us for a long time. The moment was to revamp the framework and we did it again. We came with a new framework and got the approval from the senior team. Then for some time we couldn’t work on our games due to academics and then came the D- Day. We were told in a skill meeting to have a dry run of the game next day. Damn!! What with past week of sleepless nights, nothing done on the game and a busy day ahead we worked on the game that whole night and next day for even the half hour we got from our busy schedule. But despite all our efforts the dry run was a complete fiasco. We ourselves were confused about many rules let alone the participating teams. The only good thing about the dry run was that still our game was liked by the skill teams. Moving forward...

Building skills for you Scene 2: We collated the feedback given to us and made a lot of changes in the game and this time delegated the duties (with a lot of fight which involved a broken teeth and swollen eye... Just kidding...) and expected the dry run to go well this time. And it happened again: everyone anxious and there was me shouting on the top of my voice and gaining anger and frustration as each moment passed. But this dry run gave me a fair idea what I need to do and where we need to make the real changes. So now we are working on it and make things worse right now we are only two members of our team present for work (watch out for the side effects of RM by Ankit for more details...). So let’s hope that all goes well with this game as we have one more game in the pipeline. Bye then...Keep reading for more updates on our next dry run and our second game.

-Ekta