When regarding pre-production, we've had a pretty loose method going into the new semester (i.e. a mess)

I've established a Trello board, but haven't gotten a grasp on how to format the tabs that move between the backlog, in progress, In review and completed. I'm also confused to how to distinguish between Epics and User stories. Any input from other teams for how to format these would be appreciated. 

For the more technical pre-production, I've put together a template for our artists to use when creating background artwork. As our game is 2D, the idea was to create a set of pieces we can use to make rooms. These rooms look best when they're a minimum of 4 tiles high. Any smaller and the perspective looks very strange, so we're going to try to avoid that once the final artwork is created. I also created an example GIF showcasing how glitches work in game. The idea is that the purple background is the game's primary art style, but it will switch at given points to reflect a different aesthetic, before snapping back. I think this gives a good example of how we'd want the final game to look, even if just using example sprites put together in an afternoon. 

I think this is a good baseline for putting together the game's aesthetic. It's now going to be a matter of communicating with our team's artist to make sure that both of our game's tile sets are matching with one another so that they look cohesive when swapped between one another. 

A big thing for me now is getting the Trello board in a format where it's usable and understood by the team, which has been difficult to manage. I don't think there's a lot of motivation to take advantage of this tool since we're all very task oriented, so it's been hard to pick up how to format user stories as anything other than specific activities or actions (i.e. "create enemy sprite sheet A")