Back to collectionA Day of Risk Aversion Interrupts the Roadmap
The studio had only just begun drawing its roadmap for the second half of the year when news of events outside the project interrupted the group. Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan prompted a day of risk aversion, but the market emerged unscathed. The day showed the team how outside noise could consume working time without necessarily changing the product questions.
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The studio had only just begun drawing its roadmap for the second half of the year when news of events outside the project interrupted the group. Some feared a sudden market turn and suggested setting gameplay discussion aside for the day, while the order of work in the sketch still needed debate.
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan prompted a day of risk aversion, but the market emerged unscathed. The team paused its roadmap argument while messages were coming in fastest. Once the mood settled, it returned to which parts of the existing games should be changed first, without rewriting the plan in response to a brief alarm.
The day showed the team how outside noise could consume working time without necessarily changing the product questions. The sketch still needed item-by-item discussion. For similar interruptions, they decided to allow time to observe events before returning to decisions grounded in the work.