Software Architectures and the Creative Processes in Game Development

Wang, Alf Inge; Nordmark, Njål

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“…Overview of the themes, and the papers from which they emerged 2007), Nandhakumar (2008, 2009), Tschang and Szczypula (2006), Wang and Nordmark (2015) Testing and player experience Cohendet and Simon (2007), Hodgson and Briand (2013), 2006), Wang and Nordmark (2015), Zackariasson et al (2006) Documentation and shared objects for collaboration Alves et al (2007), Cohendet and Simon (2007), , Murphy-Hill et al (2014), Stacey and Nandhakumar (2009), Tran and Biddle (2008), Wang and Nordmark (2015), Wimmer and Sitnikova (2011) The tools used in game development , 2009), Stacey and Nandhakumar ( 2009), Wang and Nordmark (2015), Vanhala and Kasurinen (2014) Requirements, structure and formalization Alves et al (2007), Cohendet and Simon (2007), Hodgson and Briand (2013), McAllister and White (2015),…”

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“…As for data gathering methods, most of the reviewed papers relied primarily on qualitative methods, and semi-structured interviews were particularly common Kultima 2010). Some papers also used surveys, often to supplement or support the material gathered through interviews (Koutonen and Leppänen 2013;Murphy-Hill et al 2014;Wang and Nordmark 2015). There were also a couple of examples of ethnographic research, in which the authors either recounted their own experiences working in development teams in the past (Walfisz et al 2006) or kept journaled accounts of on-going development processes (Bryant et al 2010;Cohendet and Simon 2007;Nelson and Palumbo 2014).…”

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“…One theme that is present in most articles relates to knowledge architecture and the flow of ideas in game production. This includes the inspiration of original game ideas (Hagen 2012;Kultima 2010), how ideas transform during the process (Kultima 2010; Tschang and Szczypula 2006), and how ideas are formed in the interplay between different development groups and testers (Cohendet and Simon 2007;Lê et al 2013;Simon 2006;Stacey et al 2007;Wang and Nordmark 2015). There are strong indications that the creative endeavours in the game industry involve many individuals, and that collaboration is important:…”

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“…The team is important for the creative process. (Cohendet and Simon 2007, p. 591) Not only are interpersonal relationships important for this type of creative ideation, but several studies (Lê et al 2013;Nandhakumar 2008, 2009;Tschang and Szczypula 2006;Wang and Nordmark 2015) also report how the interplay between ideas and the technology used to realize them affect the process. New technological possibilities, as well as limitations in the technology and even bugs, can give rise to new game concepts.…”

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What Empirically Based Research Tells Us About Game Development

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This paper reviews empirically grounded research on practices in game development with the intent to give a comprehensive overview of contemporary development practices used in the video game industry. While there are many intangible elements that inform game development processes, this review specifically covers the more immediate practical challenges. The review covers a total of 48 papers published between 2006 and 2016, which were all subjected to thematic analysis by three reviewers. The results of the review show that an almost universal characteristic of game development is that it is almost impossible to accurately plan a development project in detail, largely due to the soft requirements inherent in game production which emerge mid-process during development projects, during when testing is coupled with continuous ideation and refinement. Practicing game developers have created their own frameworks that accommodate for this lack of planning. They include flat hierarchies, democratic decision-making, creative autonomy, and informal communication, which are designed to create an environment that maintains creativity and openness to product changes long into the production process. These frameworks vary significantly between studios and often between individual projects. This review also shows that the term ‘Agile’, while often used by both researchers and developers to characterize the process of game development, is not an apt descriptor of how game developers actually work. Agile is used as shorthand for unstructured and flexible development, rather than serving as a descriptor of a definable or unified work method. Finally, as companies develop more complicated hierarchies of stakeholders and staff, the desired flexibility and autonomy of game development becomes increasingly complicated to maintain, and often necessitates more formalized management processes and company structures. In these cases, inherent tensions of game development become more pronounced, and continuous creativity is hard to maintain due to a growing need to formalize processes.

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“…The results of the study showed that object-oriented programming must be used with great care and that structural programming is also a good option for mobile game development. Another study [93] highlighted the issues for game development posed by wireless peer-to peer games in a J2ME environment using an available Bluetooth API. The issues discussed include slow device discovery, Bluetooth transfer speed, extra resource consumption, and Bluetooth topology.…”

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Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective

Aleem

Capretz

Ahmed

2016

J. Comput. Sci. Technol.

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The growth of the software game development industry is enormous and is gaining importance day by day. This growth imposes severe pressure and a number of issues and challenges on the game development community. Game development is a complex process, and one important game development choice is to consider the developer's perspective to produce good-quality software games by improving the game development process. The objective of this study is to provide a better understanding of the developer's dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of key developer's factors on the software game development process and eventually on the quality of the resulting game. A quantitative survey was developed and conducted to identify key developer's factors for an enhanced game development process. For this study, the developed survey was used to test the research model and hypotheses. The results provide evidence that game development organizations must deal with multiple key factors to remain competitive and to handle high pressure in the software game industry. The main contribution of this paper is to investigate empirically the influence of key developer's factors on the game development process.

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Serious Games Architectures and Engines

Söbke

Streicher

2016

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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The term Serious Game includes a wide, heterogeneous field of digital games with varying purposes and objectives and for a multitude of different application areas. All in common is the underlying software. This chapter gives an overview on the technical aspects of serious games including their software architectures and engines. As the general topic is manifold and the technical aspects of serious game software are quite comprehensive, this chapter covers the basic principles of and requirements for serious game software. It depicts selected software architectures and provides examples for game engines including a description of selected components.

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Software Architectures and the Creative Processes in Game Development

Cited by 15 publications

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What Empirically Based Research Tells Us About Game Development

What Empirically Based Research Tells Us About Game Development

Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective

Serious Games Architectures and Engines

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