One of the team members (Matt Marquit) is a seasoned production artist with management title under our belt. The team was assembled together because of experience and overall skill sets. Artist/ Project Lead, Artist /ScrumMaster, Designer and Programmer. At the end of our production cycle we ended up with 4 team members.

Originally we had a team of 7, 1 concept artist, 3 production artist, 1 designer, 1 programmer and 1 project lead. As I reflect on the pros and cons of this very early stage, I can say that we made a huge mistake of assigning the wrong personal and subject matter experts to their roles.

In the spirit of preproduction and working with a new team, there are a lot of things that can go wrong and when they go wrong they go down wrong fast! This was definitely something we experienced. In this postmortem, I will evaluate and share my weekly development and management strategies that I had the luxury of experiencing. The project launched in early August and had an estimated 15 week production cycle. It’s currently being developed in the Unity 3D Game Engine and set to deploy in summer of 2016. It aims to have a 2D map (Phoenix) and a 3D map (Hohokam) that can pin point accurate geographic locations and historical landmarks. The project is essentially a virtual app that serves to extend awareness of the Hohokam culture that once resided over the greater Phoenix area. Our team, The University of Advancing of Technology and Mesa Grande Museum merged for a collaborative project that brought a whole new meaning to history and indigenous culture. This was quite an experience for me, not only did I have to be reacquainted with industry traits and tools, but I had to acquire new development strategies and work directly with an outside client. All rights reserved.I took on an extraordinary 15 week journey that allowed me to revisit the methodologies and practices of game development.

Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. The region has been inhabited in historical times by the Pima and the Tohono O'Odham, although it is not entirely clear that the Hohokam were ancestral to either group. Debate persists regarding the fate of the Hohokam. Most archaeologists agree, however, that Hohokam culture evolved from local archaic antecedents (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the). Evidence also shows that they maintained extensive trade connections with groups further south, leading to speculation that the Hohokam settlements were founded by Mesoamerican migrants. Many architectural features of Hohokam settlements, including sunken ball-courts and pyramidal mounds, bear striking similarities to structures common among contemporary populations in central Mexico. They are noted for their extensive irrigation systems, with canals over 10 mi (16 km) long that channeled water to agricultural fields in an otherwise arid and inhospitable environment. Hohokam hō´hōkăm˝, hōhō´kəm, term denoting the culture of the ancient agricultural populations inhabiting the Salt and Gila river valleys of S Arizona (AD 300–1200).

Hohokam map