Lean Game Development : Apply Lean Frameworks to the Process of Game Development 1st Edition by Julia 148423216X 9781484232163

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 148423216X
• ISBN 13: 9781484232163
• Author: Julia

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Why Lean Game Development, Not Agile Game Development?

How Do Lean and Agile Relate to the  Game World?

Games and Software Relate Much More Deeply

What Kind of Game Is Software Development?

Where Did We Go Wrong?

Summary

Chapter 2: First Steps with Lean

Seven Key Principles of Lean

Lean Inception

How Does This Apply to Games?

Lean PMO

How Does a Lean PMO Apply to Games?

Lean DevOps

How Does It Apply to Games?

Kanban

How Can You Take Advantage of Scrum?

Continuous Integration

Going from Build Measure to Lean Game

Looking Deeper at the Inception

How Does It Apply to Games?

Test-Driven Development

Lean and Games

Summary

Chapter 3: An Inception in Practice

Inception Defined

Anatomy of an Inception

Defining Goals

Researching

Generating Insights

The Game’s Narrative

The Game’s Main Characteristics

The Game’s Intended Outcome

The Game’s Intended Audience

How Are Users Able to Play?

Prioritizing Ideas

Developing Personas

Journeys of Personas

Stories

Brainstorming

Creating Hypotheses

Summary

Chapter 4: MVPs: Do We Really Need Them?

MVP and MVG Defined

Building Prototypes

The PO Role in MVPs/Prototypes

Getting More from Less

Recognizing When a Game Is Not Viable

Thinking Simpler First

From the MVP Canvas to Lean Game Development

MVGs and Prototypes of Super Jujuba Sisters

Dividing Your MVGs

Splitting the MVGs or Increments

Summary

Chapter 5: Generating Hypotheses

When Hypotheses Are Not Created from the Inception

Summary

Chapter 6: Test-Driven Development

TDD Defined

Tests Are Good, But Why Is There So Much Poorly Tested Code?

Applying TDD to Games

Overcoming the Hurdles

Making TDD Better

Refactoring

Pair Programming

Summary

Chapter 7: Continuous Integration

Why Continuous Integration?

Using Continuous Integration

A Team’s Responsibilities Regarding CI

Code Versioning

Automated Build

Summary

Chapter 8: The World Between Design and Build

A Little Bit of Design

A Little Bit of Build

Pretty Beautiful, But How Is It Done?

Summary

Chapter 9: Test, Code, Test

Testing Types

Test Cases

Coding Game Artwork

Coding the Game Software

Test Automation

Summary

Chapter 10: Measuring and Analyzing

Feedback

More on Feedback

What’s Feedback?

How to Give Feedback

Other Ways of Measuring

Measuring Through Hypotheses

Analyzing

Measuring Your Hypotheses of the Female Audience Reach

Measuring Your Hypotheses on Basic Features

Summary

Chapter 11: Creating Ideas for Iterating

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