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Game Development With Scrum Methodology: November 2019
Game Development With Scrum Methodology: November 2019
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Abstract—Many methodologies are being used in software project, and how expertise their knowledge in that particular
development, not only software can follow the process, but now area of and also the time that you diagrams the project to finish
games could follow the cycle of processes. Starting from the if the demand is high, the cost needed will higher too. Vice
traditional waterfall model to agile methodology, many game versa if you want to have a faster time to develop the project,
developers are trying to produce the methodologies that could you need to have a higher number of people to develop and
solve their problem in game development. In this paper, the type higher cost to achieve it.
of methodologies will be shown on current game development.
Also, this paper would suggest agile methodologies especially Over the past few years, many companies have started
scrum over others in game development, and the reason behind implementing their projects using agile methods rather than
that will be explained. Besides that, there are proposed game traditional software development like waterfall model, almost
development methodologies that could solve the problem of game 69% of the responder work for companies had already adopted
development by involving three phases, including the pre- [3]. Another result shows that agile process has over 79%
production phase, production phase, and post-production phase. productivity compare to incremental process [4], this shows
In the production phase, the sub-steps will have four sub-steps that agile has given a beneficial outcome to the company. Agile
such as design, development, testing and review and the sub-steps methods are characterized by the iterative and incremental
will cycle as long as a result are unsatisfied. methods, which have frequent release and adaptability in
revising. Unlike the waterfall method that starts in order from
Keywords—Agile methodology, Scrum, Methodology, Game
Development, Game development methodology
planning into executing that if any changes would delay the
process and took many time and cost, Agile can easily alter
their plan and adapt to the changes. The agile methodology has
I. INTRODUCTION some features following such as:
With the rapid advancement of technology, processes game
1. Simple as possible, as simple as the goal, which targeted to
production has been significantly increasing in our daily lives.
deliver the shippable product faster than any methodology.
Starting from education and business until art and
entertainment, many games have been developed based on 2. Less documentation, where the less documentation, the
their objective to their target to be entertained or getting some better and deliver output as the main important point.
knowledge. It maybe looks good or not, but the product itself 3. User involvement, where users are fully supported by the
can cause an of dollars for a company to create a game such as project and make it easy for the development of the
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and project.
other top-level games [1]. That game was a very big size for a 4. An expert team, where the team is an expert team then it
project and of a very complex component to make [2]. in will be more convenient to communicate the project with
creates a demand for them to ensure the games can be less documentation.
developed at the minimum cost by using some areas or The most popular agile methodology is Extreme
methods that accelerate the time of production. Programming (XP), and the other is Scrum Methodology,
despite extreme programming are popular, Scrum methodology
Project Management for the game itself plays a big part in is considered simple to learn and take a little effort to start
the production cost, people and time development. One of the using it [5]. Not only that it shows that a survey in an
important mentions is the type of methodology chosen to apply organization that consists of many types of sizes starting from
for the project game management that can balance people, time 1-10 employees until more than 2000 employees around 60%
and cost based on a scale of a project such as how big the using scrum methodology and 40% out of them consist,
project. Three of these attributes have a strong connection that Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), XP, V model, and
can affect the success of the company. Speaking about the cost, others [6]. Moreover, an Agile methodology has been
depending on how many people you want to involve in this implemented in Object-oriented modeling with UML (Unified