Proposal of Game Design Document from software engineering requirements perspective

Salazar, Mario Gonzalez; Mitre, Hugo A.; Olalde, Cuauhtémoc Lemus; Sánchez, José Luis

doi:10.1109/cgames.2012.6314556

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“…In industry, content and extent of a GDD depend on the project stage and intended audience (e.g. developers, investors), but usually contain a concise description of all objects present in the game (mechanics), the interactions with and between the objects (dynamics), how the game shall look and feel (aesthetics) as well as the experiences intended for the player, an overview of the story of the game, and a technical overview (assumptions and constraints) [12]. In the software lab, a GDD structure is provided as guideline to the students.…”

Section: The Requirements Gamementioning

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A Software Lab with On-demand Support

Dietsch¹,

Langenfeld²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Software lab courses are in a paradoxical situation: teaching and experiencing software engineering processes requires large and complex projects as well as various tools but target students with extremely diverse prior knowledge, thus regularly overwhelming the more inexperienced ones. In this paper, we present a software lab course design: we expose teams of students to the full complexity of software development projects while simultaneously employing various systems that identify issues in teamwork or project progress and allow lecturers to provide on-demand support throughout all stages. The success of the course is shown by questionnaire data from the last ten years.

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Section: The Requirements Gamementioning

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A Software Lab with On-demand Support

Dietsch¹,

Langenfeld²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…There are similar elements amongst the Ped-GDD and the current GDDs with differences in the wording with the meaning remained the same. For example, Goals in this Ped-GDD was referred to as objectives by [7], as a milestone by [9], challenge by [10], as illustrated in Table 1. Another example of Social engagement in Ped-GDD is referred to as enemies by [7,8], team size by [9], as illustrated in Table 1.…”

Section: Game Design Document (Gdd)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Goals in this Ped-GDD was referred to as objectives by [7], as a milestone by [9], challenge by [10], as illustrated in Table 1. Another example of Social engagement in Ped-GDD is referred to as enemies by [7,8], team size by [9], as illustrated in Table 1.…”

Section: Game Design Document (Gdd)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

2021

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Current research suggests that using gamification in a pedagogical context can provide a positive learning experience to students. Integrating teachers' pedagogical input into the early stage of game design is an understudied area, and although the teachers' role is acknowledged, the way of communicating teachers' input is still undetermined. The current literature suggests the practice of using a Gamification Design Document (GDD) to illustrate a game requirements plan is a useful approach. In this paper, we discuss the development of a Pedagogical Game Design Document (Ped-GDD) using an Agile Holistic Framework to Support Teachers in Pedagogical Gamification Design. The paper also suggests the benefits of extending the research of the Ped-GDD further to be part of an e-Government scheme in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to promote resources collaboration amongst teachers in educational software tool developments.

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“…A requirement approach [28], a design technique called a 'game jam' [29] and a deployment strategy are described [30]. A company transitioned from a "Laissezfaire" waterfall team to a simple and well-tuned Lean/Agile team by introducing agile and Kanban in [18].…”

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“…Some examples are described in this section. A Taxonomy and Visual Notation for Modeling Globally Distributed Requirements Engineering Projects helped the process [39] as there was a need for this in requirements engineering, whereas designing a video game with a proposed Game Design Document (GDD) [28] required experience and training. The lack of version control on this GDD was a deterrent to adopting this process improvement.…”

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Software Development Processes for Games: A Systematic Literature Review

O’Hagan

Coleman

O’Connor

2014

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. This paper describes the methodology and results from a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of the software processes used in game development. A total of 404 papers were analyzed as part of the review and the various process models that are used in industry and academia/research are presented. Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiatives for game development are discussed. The factors that promote or deter the adoption of process models, and implementing SPI in practice are highlighted. Our findings indicate that there is no single model that serves as a best practice process model for game development and it is a matter of deciding which model is best suited for a particular game. Agile models such as Scrum and XP are suited to the knowledge intensive domain of game development where innovation and speed to market are vital. Hybrid approaches such as reuse can also be suitable for game development where the risk of the upfront investment in terms of time and cost is mitigated with a game that has stable requirements and a longer lifespan.

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Proposal of Game Design Document from software engineering requirements perspective

Cited by 20 publications

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A Software Lab with On-demand Support

A Software Lab with On-demand Support

Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

Software Development Processes for Games: A Systematic Literature Review

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