What Concerns Game Developers? A Study on Game Development Processes, Sustainability and Metrics

Kasurinen, Jussi; Palacin-Silva, Maria; Vanhala, Erno

doi:10.1109/wetsom.2017.3

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Similarly the study conducted by Kasurinen et al with the professional game developers to investigate the understanding of sustainability and its dimensions [25]. The study finding shows that the game developing industry does not focus on the sustainability dimensions and there is a need to improve their understanding of how to maintain the balance between various sustainability dimensions during software engineering.…”

Section: F Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 89%

Sustainable Software Engineering:A Perspective of Individual Sustainability

Nazir

Fatima

Chuprat

et al. 2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Sustainable software engineering is a mean of developing sustainable software with sustainable software engineering process activities while balancing its various dimensions for instance economic, environmental, social, technical and individual. It is conveyed that the economic, technical, environmental and social dimensions are explored to satisfactory degree however the individual dimension of sustainable software engineering which is concerned with wellbeing of software engineers is not explored to satisfactory degree with respect to its understanding and challenges. Therefore, the aim of the study is to highlight and prioritize the challenges regarding individual sustainability dimension. The study also provides the mitigation strategies for the top five individual sustainability challenges. The systematic literature review has been performed to report the challenges and mitigation strategies. The study finding shows that lack of domain knowledge, lack of methodologies and tool support, lack of education, varying and unidentified situations and lack of sustainable software engineering practices are top most challenges regarding individual sustainability. These challenges need an urgent attention to achieve the goal of sustainable software engineering. The study also reports various mitigation strategies to overcome the risk of identified top most individual sustainability challenges such as to introduce sustainable software engineering education and knowledge in software engineering curricula, development of knowledge sharing frameworks and awareness regarding unclear and varying situations for each software engineering activity etc. The study will be beneficial for sustainable software engineering body of knowledge, sustainable software engineering practitioners and researchers by providing classified list of individual sustainability challenges and their mitigation strategies.

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Section: F Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 89%

Sustainable Software Engineering:A Perspective of Individual Sustainability

Nazir

Fatima

Chuprat

et al. 2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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“…The above studies focused on several aspects of games and software engineering, such as software engineering practices applied in game development [19,20,28,44,46,61], limitations of game development [1,30,42], game testing [6,29], empirical insights on game development for game developers [34][35][36][37][38], user views of games [13,15], and potential software engineering research opportunities in games [2,33,54].…”

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Building the perfect game – an empirical study of game modifications

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Prior work has shown that gamer loyalty is important for the sales of a developer's future games. Therefore, it is important for game developers to increase the longevity of their games. However, game developers cannot always meet the growing and changing needs of the gaming community, due to the often already overloaded schedules of developers. So-called modders can potentially assist game developers with addressing gamers' needs. Modders are enthusiasts who provide modifications or completely new content for a game. By supporting modders, game developers can meet the rapidly growing and varying needs of their gamer base. Modders have the potential to play a role in extending the life expectancy of a game, thereby saving game developers time and money, and leading to a better overall gaming experience for their gamer base.In this paper, we empirically study the metadata of 9,521 mods that were extracted from the Nexus Mods distribution platform. The Nexus Mods distribution platform is one of the largest mod distribution platforms for PC games at the time of our study. The goal of our paper is to provide useful insights about mods on the Nexus Mods distribution platform from a quantitative perspective, and to provide researchers a solid foundation to further explore game mods. To better understand the potential of mods to extend the longevity of a game we study their characteristics, and we study their release schedules and post-release support (in terms of bug reports) as a proxy for the willingness of the modding community to contribute to a game. We find that

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“…There are qualitative investigations such as [10], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23] and [24] and other quantitative studies such as [11], [25], [26], [27], [28] and [29], and mixed methods studies [30] and [31], all focusing on software sustainability from different perspectives e.g. Green.…”

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confidence: 99%

Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Aljarallah

Lock

2018

2018 International Conference on Computing, Electronics &Amp; Communications Engineering (iCCECE)

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Interest in sustainable development is increasing. Understanding the user's perspective toward software sustainability helps to enhance understanding of the concept. The need for developing countries to enhance their ICT infrastructure to align with UN sustainable development goals increases the necessity to understand the current perception of software users, industry and sustainability experts, to improve the level of software sustainability. Software sustainability has a number of challenges with regard to adoption by software users. This study investigates software sustainability from users' points of view in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It also addresses key barriers for sustainable software.

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What Concerns Game Developers? A Study on Game Development Processes, Sustainability and Metrics

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Sustainable Software Engineering:A Perspective of Individual Sustainability

Sustainable Software Engineering:A Perspective of Individual Sustainability

Building the perfect game – an empirical study of game modifications

Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

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