Improving Digital Game Development with Software Product Lines

Furtado, André Freire; Santos, André L.; Ramalho, Geber; Almeida, Eduardo Santana de

doi:10.1109/ms.2011.101

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“…Work by Furtado, Santos and Ramalho describes guidelines on how to benefit from the SPL technology in the video game domain [8]. Our work complements their work by focusing on variability in the various video game platforms.…”

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Applying software product lines to multiplatform video games

Albassam¹,

Gomaa²

2013

2013 3rd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Engineering Computer Games to Enable Positive, Progressive C

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In this paper, we explore the application of Software Product Line (SPL) technology in the video games domain by exploiting differences in various video game platforms to design a variable component-based software product line architecture for a multiplatform video game. Our approach consists of constructing a feature dependency model for describing variability in multiplatform video games. We explored variability in the user interface, input devices, output devices, CPU, as well as other variability in various video game platforms. Then, we designed a variable component-based SPL that is tailored to every video game in the product line. We validated our approach by implementing a SPL of a combat flight-simulator game and by deriving two versions of the game: a Windows desktop version and a Windows Phone version. The derivation process of each version is done by selecting features from the feature dependency model and the corresponding software components and SPL parameters that relate to those features.Index Terms-Software product line design, video games, multiplatform variability, feature modeling.

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Applying software product lines to multiplatform video games

Albassam¹,

Gomaa²

2013

2013 3rd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Engineering Computer Games to Enable Positive, Progressive C

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“…Even fewer mentioned the overall process. While [11] emphasized iterative processes and [12] talked about relationships among tasks of computer game development and domain specific modeling, none of them illustrated in detail and came up with an adapted workflow with combined tasks and iteration support.…”

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“…As what we have found, the usage of language workbench tools in this domain has become visible from around 2008. Workbenches that have been used in this domain include: DiaMeta [14], Microsoft DSL Tools [15,16], and the Eclipse modeling tools [12,17,18]. Besides these, Epsilon, MetaEdit and IntelliJ also provide similar tools.…”

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“…There are many modeling projects that focus on the promotion and evolution of model based techniques within this community by providing modeling frameworks, tools and standard implementation. Some researchers used different combination of such projects to develop their DSM solutions for computer games [12,17,18]. Table 2 is a list of tools that we have used according to which tasks in DSM definition or DSM usage they can support.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We only found few scientific papers in this domain. While some of them provided higher level envision about this domain [11,12,14], some other papers presented concrete demonstrations and initial data as well as lessons they have gained [16,17,29]. Very few of them touched in-depth issues like how to perform domain analysis to ensure the quality of the meta-model as it is the most important and starting point in the overall development.…”

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Abstract: A systematic process for exploiting software product lines for game development offers both domain-specific languages and generators streamlined for game subdomains.

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