A Pretty Terrifying Work Plan!

Here’s our plan for this project! Generally, the journey of this project involves starting by further augmenting and analyzing our dataset, then creating the website and the visualizations that will live there, then iterating on and improving our work, while also engaging in outreach and developing presentations and supplementary materials. The week-by-week breakdown is as follows.

Week 1:

2/26 – 3/5

  • Divide into 3 sections and review which data points may be missing and require additional evaluation. (Truly: rows 2-32, Michael: rows 33-63, Naila: 64-94)
    • Review how Barbara Creed’s frameworks apply to the video games in the dataset
    • How is the monstrous feminine theory, and how does it apply to the horror video games genre
  • Team to add notes and comments directly to the Google Sheet version of the dataset, and to any other notes in our team document.
  • Look for patterns and connections, and think about ideas for visualizations.

Week 2:

3/5 – 3/12

Truly

  • Deploy the website via GitHub

Michael & Naila

  • Tie up loose ends in the dataset review and continue thinking about data visualizations/potential platforms.
  • Find other video game analyses on the internet. What does the game studies ecosystem look like?

 

Week 3: 

3/12 – 3/19

Michael

  • Website wireframe

Naila

  • Decide on outreach platforms and begin outreach – show what the project will look like

Truly

  • Work on drafting data visualizations

Week 4:

3/19 – 3/26

Truly

  • Code website skeleton
  • Begin working on website documentation

Naila

  • Revise data visualizations
  • Additional research as needed

Michael

  • Revise data visualizations
  • Additional research as needed

 

Week 5 & 6 (spring break)

3/26 – 4/16

Break time and/or time to catch up on tasks. TBD.

 

Week 7:

4/16 – 4/23

  • Finalize the name
  • Prepare slides and presentation
  • Website content drafting
  • UI and other visual assets

Project presentation day (Tuesday, 04/21)

 

Week 8:

4/23 – 4/30

  • Test and improve website accessibility.

Truly:

  • User test and debug the website, and add any additional web content
  • Ensure both the deployed site and the static copy of the site

Michael & Naila

  • Revise front-end (written) content

 

Week 9:

4/30 – 5/7

  • Prepare for the public project presentation
  • Working on slides and doing team rehearsal
  • Dress Rehearsal (5/7/2026)

 

Week 10 & 11

5/7 – 5/21

  • Revision on all fronts.
  • Final outreach push leading up to the project launch
  • More TBD.
  • Public project launch at GC Digital Showcase (5/21)