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SCRUM Simulator is a Windows game built in GameMaker by a team of five, including me, to help first‐year CMGT students learn SCRUM through hands-on experience. Players take on the dual role of completing their own tasks and assigning tasks to a virtual team, racing against the clock to finish each sprint. I implemented the dynamic stress mechanic so that as stress levels rose, in-game time accelerated. To give players a way to manage that pressure, I also coded a way to lower stress; the petting the cat interaction and added a lava lamp that changes colour depending on the stress level. Additionally, I designed and coded two of the core minigames, one simulating a rapid bug-fixing task, and the other a quick UI mockup challenge. Working with my classmates who also handled some programming, I sharpened my GML scripting (which is very similar to JavaScript) and saw firsthand how balancing stress and deadlines can teach real-world SCRUM principles in an engaging way.

Since the game was originally built for Windows, the HTML embed above may not work entirely as intended. With the Download button below, you can download the game in full as a zip file. All you will have to do is extract all and start up the exe file!