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Lean Game Development

Apply Lean Frameworks to the Process of Game Development

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Authors:
  1. Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira

    1. Porto Alegre, Brazil

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  • Focuses on lean methodologies beyond Agile, bringing new light to the game development industry

  • Includes art and design development, how to integrate and eliminate waste

  • Author has real-world experience applying these methodologies successfully

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 1-8

  3. First Steps with Lean

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 9-21

  4. An Inception in Practice

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 23-32

  5. MVPs: Do We Really Need Them?

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 33-48

  6. Generating Hypotheses

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 49-52

  7. Test-Driven Development

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 53-66

  8. Continuous Integration

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 67-75

  9. The World Between Design and Build

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 77-87

  10. Test, Code, Test

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 89-99

  11. Measuring and Analyzing

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 101-112

  12. Creating Ideas for Iterating

    • Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira
    Pages 113-120

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 121-150
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About this book

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. The concepts taught are used not only in the design of the software code but also in all stages of the development process.

Ideal for any game development company, including indie and small studios, Lean Game Development offers new opportunities for streamlining your workflow and benefiting your game development overall.

What You'll Learn

  • Discover how lean helps the gaming industry
  • Understand the value of lean over Agile
  • Apply MVP concepts to gaming industry
  • Work with basic automated testing for gaming environment

Who This Book Is For

Game developers, artist, designers and project managers

Authors and Affiliations

  • Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira

About the author

Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira is a software developer at Thoughtworks and leads VR and AR innovation at their Porto Alegre office in Brazil. She has co-worked in a series of games and has experience with Unity, Unreal, Cry, Panda3D engines, and a bunch of other gaming frameworks. She has published articles about AI development and lean game development, and is a frequent committer to GitHub.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lean Game Development

  • Book Subtitle: Apply Lean Frameworks to the Process of Game Development

  • Authors: Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3216-3

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Julia Naomi Rosenfield Boeira 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3216-3Published: 17 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 150

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Game Development

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