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Adding to what you wrote about Playing to our strengths:

I think that in a short challenge, a team doesn’t necessarily have time to have big discussions about things, so you all need to be decisive.

One person working alone can easily coordinate themselves, but may lack man-hours or lack a full range of skills. My time usually breaks down like this:
- 20% to design, planning, calculations, etc
- 40% art
- 25% programming
- 15% finishing off + sounds + testing

In contrast, a team has plenty of man-hours at their disposal as well as a more complete skill set, but a team is harder to coordinate, because everybody understands and visualizes the project slightly differently. Without good communication it’s possible to end up with everyone’s contributions not fitting together quite as nicely as hoped, and possibly having to redo things.