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The document summarizes research into the software engineering processes used by the video game industry. It analyzed 20 game project postmortems to construct process models for each. The results showed that while iterative processes are most common, other process types like waterfall and ad hoc are still used. Agile practices are increasing but not universally adopted. Overall, the study found that "the old days" of long-term waterfall planning are gone, but different process combinations are still needed. The researchers suggest educators teach agile methodologies for games and invite collaborating on future empirical studies of industry practices.
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combination of strategies including
Waterfall and Agile to compete in the
market place.”
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Gas16.ppt
- 1. Are the old days gone? A survey on actual software engineering processes in video game industry Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, Lisandra Fontoura, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) École Polytechnique de Montréal 1/## Fifth International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering (GAS 2016)
- 2. GDC 2016 State of the Industry Report 2 30% 16% 11% Programmers
- 3. Does game industry have the same problems that "traditional" software industry? 3
- 4. 2006 4
- 6. "In fact, all the main problems of the traditional software industry are also found in the games industry " 6 Petrillo, F., Pimenta, M., Trindade, F., & Dietrich, C. (2009). What went wrong? A survey of problems in game development. Computers in Entertainment, 7(1), 1.
- 7. What are the most important problems in game industry? 7
- 8. 1) Unrealistic scope 2) Feature creep 3) Cutting features 8 Petrillo, F., Pimenta, M., Trindade, F., & Dietrich, C. (2009). What went wrong? A survey of problems in game development. Computers in Entertainment, 7(1), 1.
- 9. So, how can we mitigate these problems? 9
- 10. "We believe that adoption of agile practices in game development can achieve promising results. " 10 Petrillo, F., & Pimenta, M. (2010). Is agility out there? Agile Practices in Game Development. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication - SIGDOC ’10 (p. 9). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
- 11. 2016 11
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- 13. “[Game projects] requires novel combination of strategies including Waterfall and Agile to compete in the market place.” 13 Gary Keith Brubaker - GAS 2016 Keynote
- 14. Today, Gary and Roger told basicly about Process Practices! 14
- 15. "The old days are gone. You can't expect producers or leads to come up with a huge waterfall of everything they thought would get done over the next three years. In the game development business, it's insane to think you have any insight into what your team will be doing one year from now. You can set major milestones with hard dates, but filling in all the details between those points is an exercise in futility. " 15 Fridley, M. (2013). Postmortem: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Retrieved from http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/197269/postmortem_kingdoms_of_amalur_.php
- 16. Are these claims general or a "cherry picking" cases? 16
- 17. RQ: Are "the old days" really gone in video game industry? 17
- 18. Methodology 18
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- 20. Postmortem Search (2010 - now) 20 *63
- 21. 21 Postmortem Filtering (682 terms)
- 22. 22 Postmortem Analysis (20 articles)
- 25. 25 BPMN Process Construction Postmortem Analysis (20 articles)
- 27. 27 Iterative Process - Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- 28. Hybrid Process - Brutal Legend 28
- 29. Ad-Hoc Process - Aaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity 29
- 30. Waterfall Process - Scooby-Doo 30
- 31. Results 31
- 32. 32 Process occurrences by category
- 33. 33 Agile practices in game projects
- 34. Conclusions 34
- 35. Conclusion 1 The “old days” are gone, but not completely at all. 35
- 36. Conclusion 2 Iterative process is currently mainstream in the game industry. 36
- 37. Conclusion 3 Agility are increasing in the last years. 37
- 38. Conclusion 4 Actually video game and “traditional” software development share similar processes and practices. 38
- 39. Discussion We believe that iterative process and agile practice benefits are yet misunderstood by some game developers, managers, producers, publishers, and educators. . 39
- 40. Suggestion Educators include game agile methodologies in game development courses. 40
- 41. Future Work 41
- 42. Montréal/QC is defining it as the gaming capital of Canada! 42
- 43. Montréal some 100 companies in the video game industry 43
- 44. 10 thousand people were employed in Québec’s video game industry. 44
- 45. Perform empirical studies on SE practices and process on game industry. 45
- 46. Perform empirical studies on SE practices and process on game industry. 46
- 47. I would like invite you to work together in this research project! :-) 47
- 48. Are the old days gone? A survey on actual software engineering processes in video game industry Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, Lisandra Fontoura, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc 48/## Thank you! fabio@petrillo.com