Jan 31, 2018

Review

People, Planning, and Production for Video Game Development is a small booklet (41 pages) that nonetheless has valuable information for people who want to produce their first game or are looking to make the jump to production. If you are an experienced producer, you might still obtain some value from looking at the detailed spreadsheets mock-ups the writer introduces.

Jan 15, 2018

Disclaimer: The gaming industry is global, but to make it simpler I will only use US figures. This simplification does not detract from the arguments in the article. Indeed, it should be straightforward to generalize them to a different regional market within the video game industry.

There is an intense debate in the gaming community at the time of writing over the price of AAA games, which has been stable at the $50 – $60 range for more than two decades. In those two decades, the gaming industry and the economy have changed considerably, and even our expectation as gamers of what an AAA game should be has grown.

Jan 15, 2018

I recently obtained two Agile, Scrum to be specific, certifications: Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) and Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I). Today, I want to share why I decided to take these certifications.

Why certificate

Is it worth getting Agile certified? That is the first question that comes to mind when someone first hears about the different certifications in the marketplace. In my opinion, anyone who is serious about agile project/process management should get certified. This certainty comes from doing a simple cost-benefit analysis between getting certified and not – there are numerous reasons to seek an Agile certification and few reasons not to get one.

Jan 1, 2018

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share with you my closing analysis of 2017 and what you should expect from me and this blog on 2018.

Dec 17, 2017

The game production process commonly referred to as the production cycle, is the primary responsibility of the video game producer. It starts from the moment the game is conceived and goes on until the gold master (final release build) version hits the shelves – or your favorite digital distribution platform.

It is essential to keep in mind that every game and every studio works differently. Game production is hardly a standardized practice. Therefore, for anyone reading this from a development studio, it is likely that some of the descriptions in the article might not match 100% your particular cycle, and that is ok. Moreover, the relatively new introduction of modern software practices, such as Scrum, has started a shift towards an iterative process. I will cover both the “traditional” (noniterative) and “agile” (iterative) production processes.