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Improving Video Game Development: Facilitating Heterogeneous Team Collaboration through Flexible Software Processes

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2010)

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Based on our observations of Austrian video game software development (VGSD) practices we identified a lack of systematic processes/method support and inefficient collaboration between various involved disciplines, i.e. engineers and artists. VGSD includes heterogeneous disciplines, e.g. creative arts, game/content design, and software. Nevertheless, improving team collaboration and process support is an ongoing challenge to enable a comprehensive view on game development projects. Lessons learned from software engineering practices can help game developers to increase game development processes within a heterogeneous environment. Based on a state of the practice survey in the Austrian games industry, this paper presents (a) first results with focus on process/method support and (b) suggests a candidate flexible process approach based on Scrum to improve VGSD and team collaboration. Results showed (a) a trend to highly flexible software processes involving various disciplines and (b) identified the suggested flexible process approach as feasible and useful for project application.

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  1. Christian Doppler Laboratory for, Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Juergen Musil, Angelika Schweda, Dietmar Winkler & Stefan Biffl

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  2. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre and School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Musil, J., Schweda, A., Winkler, D., Biffl, S. (2010). Improving Video Game Development: Facilitating Heterogeneous Team Collaboration through Flexible Software Processes. In: Riel, A., O’Connor, R., Tichkiewitch, S., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15666-3_8

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