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Communication and collaboration

- [Tutor] When you're working on game projects, it's likely that you'll be working with a team of people. It might be a small team, it might be a large team. But regardless, it's going to be a team. And maybe all of you are grouped together in the same office at the same location. Or maybe you're spread all across the world in different countries and different time zones. Or maybe you're working for a mix of both. In all of these cases, you're going to want to be able to manage the workload that you take on. To collaborate together and to understand what each other is doing, and each person's progress on different tasks, So you can plan your work more effectively. Another really important feature you'll need, is to be able to communicate with members of your team and not have those communication spread across completely different and disconnected social media channels. You'll want to channel all of your communication in one place, so it's easy to find when you need it. In these instances, you'll want to use a project management tool, and there are many of these available to us online, and they are incredibly powerful. In this video I want to make you aware of the great variety that you have available to you. And in the next video, we'll see an example using HacknPlan on how we can manage a project. I've opened up a web browser window to a selection of tools that you can find. Right now, the tab is open at discord.com. Discord is a social media platform, that's available on Windows, Linux, and Mac and a wide variety of operating systems. And fundamentally, you can use it to group together different people, chat and engage in conversations. It might not be the best tool for your project depending on your circumstances, but by using Discord, you can bring a lot of people together in various channels of communication, both live and messages. Another tool that you have available that is widely used in many studios, is the tool of Slack. Where you can bring together again a large team of people and not just communicate by chatting, but you can also post tasks and manage the workload that people are doing. Some additional tools that you can use here are also, Asana and monday.com. Both of these tools divide your work into tasks which you can see here. For example, in the illustration, different people are assigned different tasks and each of those tasks have a specific deadline and they have a current status. A task might be completed when that piece of work is finished, it might be in progress, or it might be that you are stuck on a particular task and you are waiting for another task to be completed. Another tool that works very much like these, but is completely free is Freedcamp, which you can sign up for and try out. Another completely free tool is Trello, which again, is a really great tool for managing simple tasks. And the last tool that is available is Microsoft Teams. Which is a much broader platform of tools and technologies, and also includes video conferencing. So you can have live video chats with different members of your team across the world. So in this video, we've seen a broad selection of tools that are available to you. Some of those tools are free. Some of those tools are commercial. You need to take a look at each one and look over the features to make a judgment about the right tool for your team. In the next video, we're going to jump into HacknPlan, to see the project management features there, and see an example of how we can create some tasks, assign those tasks to different people, and then assign those tasks various statuses.

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