Is agility out there?: agile practices in game development

  • Authors:
  • Fabio Petrillo;Marcelo Pimenta

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Game development is a very complex and multidisciplinary activity and surely the success of games as one of most profitable areas in entertainment domain could not be incidentally. The goal of this paper is to investigate if (and how) principles and practices from Agile Methods have been adopted in game development, mainly gathering evidences through Postmortem Analysis (PMA). Then we describe how we have conducted PMA in order to identify the good practices adopted in several game development projects. The results are discussed, comparing similarities and differences on how these practices are taken in account in (traditional) software development and game development.