From now on each team member can join a “Crew” and a “Team”.

Teams are like the “Design Team” and “Programming Team” but Crews are groups dedicated to solve a particular problem. 

For example:

Voxel Engine “Crew” 

Jelly Interaction “Crew”

Jelly Personalities “Crew”

Everyone meets with their team during the week. However, Crews set up their own times to meet. 

You can find our Crews in Discord if you have the required role (1). You can see what Crews are working on in their title (2).

 Look for Crews that have the tag "Seeking" (1). However, you can always ask to help Crews which are full (2) or (3) as they may have forgotten to update their tags.

 To join a Crew, click one (1) with a goal you like, (2) read their introduction page and (3) apply. 

Who can create a Crew?

Anyone on the team that has passed their Introduction Chat/Interview can create a Crew.

What can a Crew be about? 

You can consider what a Crew could do in several different categories: 

 
Making SkyJellies -- Creating a sandbox game centered around cute creatures

- The game’s art

- The game’s user experience

- The game’s gameplay

- The game’s sound

- The game’s design

Creating tools -- Creating tools that help artists and developers make SkyJellies

- Voxel engine

- Building a Discord bot which enables people to review each other’s tasks

Marketing SkyJellies -- Creating interest that will drive the sales of our game

- Understanding product-market fit

- SkyJellies waitlist Discord

- Social media marketing for SkyJellies

Empowering the community -- Creating a place where developers empower each other to fulfill their goals and work on games

- Finding mentors and enabling them to share their wisdom with the community. 
- Creating job-finding tools.

What can a Crew be about? 

That said, anyone can create a Crew about anything as long as another Crew is not already pursuing the exact same thing.

Every Crew has a Northstar which is their mission.

A great Northstar begins by choosing who you are serving:

The player,
or the devs making the game or the community.

If you decide that you're serving the players, first visit the Milestone Production Board

https://trello.com/c/hHwUufB8/912-milestone-production-board

Look through everything there and find something that you could get really passionate about.

Once you've read it, you'll have a clear understanding of what we are creating for the players.

You don't have to do what's precisely on that board, but what we want you to do is take one piece or one feature and go all in on building that feature.

Whichever you choose, the first thing you want to do is think. 🧠

Ask yourself: "What problem would I enjoy solving the most?" 🤔

If you are creating a crew dedicated to helping developers or the community, think about the problem you are seeking to solve. 🤔

We create features to evoke emotions in players, not just to create features. 🛠️➡️😊

If you decide that you're serving the players, think about the emotion you want to create. 🤔

What kind of feeling do you want them to have through your feature?

The feeling you want to create should match up in some way with the overall pillars of the game. 🎮🤔
You can find these pillars in our design documentation. 📚👀

https://p1vc.org/docs

- Our game is all about connecting with cute creatures in a sky island paradise. 🏝️
- If the emotion you want to evoke is something like heartwarming compassion, you're probably on the right track. ❤️😊

After taking a quick look at the Miro board, I found a feature that I would enjoy working on (1). 👀🎯

I can see that no one, except the sound team, is working on it so far (2) (3) (4). 🎧🎹

Just to be sure I will look through the other Northstars too to see if someone is working on this:

I don't see anything that would obviously match up.

If you face a situation where you're not sure, just go ahead without worrying about it. 🚀

Throughout our whole organization, we follow a policy of "communicate, act, communicate," which simply means informing people about your intended actions, proceeding without seeking permission, and subsequently updating them on the outcome.

Looking at the description of the individual story, I can see that it's all about making a system. 📚🔍
This system allows people to interact with the items around them in an intuitive and understandable way. 🤝

Rather than just work on this tiny little feature, I would like to form a crew. 👥🤝
Our goal? Work on the 1st person interaction system as a whole. 🎮🔄

We aim to create a system that produces surprising joy and relief in the player's heart. 😄

Why? Because they understand everything naturally and intrinsically. 🌱💡

That seems to be the whole idea behind the opening of the hand in showing that it's possible to pick up the Jelly Dew.

This can be the foundation of our Northstar 🌟

We could make our Northstar about creating a first-person interaction system. 🌟🎮

However, that wouldn't focus on the ACTUAL problem we're solving or the ACTUAL feeling we want to create. 😕🤔

We want to step back and ask the question, "why are we creating this in the first place?" The reason we want to create it is that we want the people to understand the game intrinsically without any effort. 🌟🎮

We don't want to tell people to create a feature. We want to give our Crew a mission and a feeling they want to create so that they have creative options in how they solve the problem. 💡👥 

From that we have our Northstar:

If understanding this was too complicated for you, just do your best and don't worry about following the process precisely. 🤗

One last thing, Northstars must be accomplishable within 5 months; otherwise, you're scoping it too big. 😜

Creating your Crew page

Make sure your Northstar does not overlap with other Crew’s Northstars too much. 

Look for:

You can see each Northstar here:

Creating your Crew page

Make a new post using the template: 

Inlcude an image!

Template:

TITLE: Crew Name -- Founder Name -- Northstar -- Timezone

Crew members:

1. John

2. Ed

3. Bob

& we have room for a designer!

Creating your Crew page

Edit your Crew post:

Add headers for data you will place there in the future:

**Things you should know:** 

*Here is our Trello: http:// your trello link .com*

*Here is what we are working on right now*

*Here is this week’s goal* 

*Here is this month’s goal*

Creating your Crew page

Fill that stuff in later.

Creating your Crew page

Edit the tags to make sure "Seeking" is selected:

Creating your Crew page

You could theoretically create an entire crew on your own; however, we strongly discourage it since it will hinder your progress. Learning from others is a valuable aspect of the mentorship we provide here.

The first thing you want to do is identify one task that you or a team member could do and add it to the Action Trello.

https://trello.com/c/q958PVkD/705-action-trello

Don't worry about clocking your time if you're new. That's a whole different thing you need to worry about much later if you join the royalty program.

We have the Crew set up now. 🎉

Next, we need people to join the Crew.

Everything depends on announcing the crew to the entire team. 📢

We can do this at almost any meeting. 📆👥

We have the Crew set up now. 🎉

Next, we need people to join the Crew.

Everything depends on announcing the crew to the entire team. 📢

We can do this at almost any meeting. 📆👥

Let's write a compelling statement on why people should join our Crew.🖊️🚀

Here is that compelling statement completed.🖊️🚀

I would like to present my crew to the community. First and foremost, my new Crew's mission is to:
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I created this crew for the following reason:

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I'm looking for people with the following talents to join the Crew:
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If you're brand new here and you're just seeking to do an introduction chat with us, I would welcome you to join my Crew.

Almost every meeting has a space for people to inject announcements right near the start of the meeting, where the leader calls out, asking people to make announcements if they have one. That's what you want to latch onto, and you want to say, "Yes, I have an announcement.".

Your goal will be to present your Crew to the people there and invite people to join.

Each crew can only onboard 2 old members of [P1]. At that point, to onboard more members, they need to take on new people.

This is to ensure that new people land on Crews naturally.

Who is considered new?
A new person is somebody who hasn't yet joined a Crew.

There may be brand new people in the meeting who just got there and want to join your crew.

Doing an introduction chat for somebody who's new is really simple, especially if you run a Crew.

You don't need to prepare anything beforehand, and there's a dead simple checklist that will get you right through that without a sweat or any preparation necessary. Link

You don't have to do introduction chats for new people if you don't want to, but it's a great way to open up slots for your Crew.

You don't need to keep the link on you. Somebody will give you the link if you ask for it.