Lean Game Development
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Lean Game Development
Author: Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
language: en
Publisher: Apress
Release Date: 2017-11-17
Apply lean frameworks and other concepts of software development to the process of your game development. Resistance to Agile methodologies in the gaming industry is most often due to frustrated attempts to use lean tools and frameworks. Lean Game Development teaches you how to apply frameworks and concepts successfully to benefit you and your team. You will see how to manage, develop and coexist in a lean game development environment. You’ll understand what lean is and how it helps the gaming industry. You’ll see how to apply MVP concepts and why you should. The concepts taught are used not only in the design of the software code but also in all stages of the development process. Ideal for any game development company, including indie and small studios, Lean Game Development offers new opportunities for streamlining your workflow and benefiting your game development overall. What You'll Learn Discover how lean helps the gaming industry Understand the value of lean over Agile Apply MVP concepts to gaming industry Work with basic automated testing for gaming environment Who This Book Is For Game developers, artist, designers and project managers
Lean Game Development
Author: Chris Lowthorpe
language: en
Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
Release Date: 2016-04-15
This book explores how to apply Lean Startup principles to the design and development of digital games. Using practical case studies and empirical experience — augmented by relevant theory — the book demonstrates the importance of learning in order to sustainably design and develop digital games people actually want to pay for. The core aim of the book is to empower game studios, from start-ups to established companies, to create a sustainable, repeatable, and scalable design and development process that minimizes waste and maximizes the chances of success in the marketplace.
Agile Game Development
Author: Clinton Keith
language: en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Release Date: 2020-07-02
The definitive guide to more effective and personally fulfilling game development with Agile Methods—now revamped to reflect ten more years of experience and improvements. Game development is in crisis—facing bloated budgets, impossible schedules, unmanageable complexity, and death-march overtime. It's no wonder so many development studios are struggling to survive. Fortunately, there is a solution. Agile and Lean methods have revolutionized development in the game development industry. In Agile Game Development, long-time game developer and consultant Clinton Keith shows exactly how these methods have been successfully applied to the unique challenges of modern game development. Clint has spent more than 25 years developing games and training and coaching hundreds of game development teams. Drawing on this unparalleled expertise, he shows how teams can use the practices of Scrum and Kanban, customized to game development, to deliver games more efficiently, rapidly, and cost-effectively; craft games that offer more entertainment value; and make life more fulfilling for development teams at the same time. Contains several new chapters on live games, leadership, and coaching, including an all-new section on Agile for large teams of up to 1000 developers Updates to all chapters to reflect a decade of experience with more than 200 studios Now covering Kanban and other Agile approaches alongside Scrum Understanding Agile goals, roles, and practices in the context of game development Discovering how Agile benefits every specialty in game development from art to QA Communicating and planning your game's vision, features, and progress Game developers and leaders are recognizing the modern challenges of gaming. Game development organizations need a far better way to work. Agile Game Development gives them that—and brings the profitability, creativity, and fun back to game development.