Computer games

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2.  Game development: a subset of Software
Engineering.
 it shares some of the problems related to design.
 Petrillo claims that games industry has all the
problems found in the traditional SE industry and
solutions found in the traditional software
development solve some problems in the game
development.
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3. With development and advances in various
components, such as
 3D graphics,
 animation,
 sound, sound,
 artificial intelligence,
 physics, and
 communication and interaction between these
components
complexity of game development increased
significantly.
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4.  the ‘fun’ element in
games proves to be a
unique and significant
part of gamepart of game
development.
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5.  An effectively designed interface increases
the desire to interact and explore the
system beyond one’s needs (Mandel, 1997).
 These games are meant to be enjoyable;
an easy-to-use user interface with good
usability will benefit the user experience
greatly.
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6.  the flat hierarchy structure in the game
industry is caused by the young age of the
workers and good for innovation
 It provides flexibility to adapt to changes in It provides flexibility to adapt to changes in
requirements.
 He also explains that game developers are
given non-deferrable
and short time-frame for development because
of marketing reasons.
Nacke (2006)
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7.  focus on planning, documentation, etc.
 the matured software development industry
can help reducing uncertainty by providing
processes, methods and tools to reduceprocesses, methods and tools to reduce
iteration during development.
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8.  The transition from design to production
with video games exhibits many non-
functional requirements to which the
literature does not provide a coherentliterature does not provide a coherent
solution (Callelle, 2005; Kanode, 2009).
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9.  the agile SE methods had been widely
adopted, but modified to the video game
industry’s needs (Koutonen, 2011).
 The traditional SE methods are used as a
basis, but it is also questioned if game
development could have something unique
to teach the SE paradigm.
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