The process of tracking progress and measuring success of a series of related tasks.
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Finding collaborators to work on projects [duplicate]
I'm wondering what are good ways to find people you can work with on indie projects.
Is there anywhere some sort of list of game developer forums ? Or if it doesn't exist, what websites would you ...
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What can I do to get audio into my game legally?
If making a game of my own, what should or what can I do to get audio in game? I understand that just going on the internet, and finding random tracks and putting in my game may raise a whole load of ...
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Has piracy ever resulted in a developer getting shut down?
Has piracy EVER resulted in a developer getting shut down? That is, has piracy ever been so detrimental that it brought about the downfall of a game studio? If I were to release a game, should I be ...
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Looking for ios game design management document template [closed]
i am looking for ios game design/development management document template in order to break down my work flow and structure.
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How should we determine which portions of the game to develop first?
We are developing an action RPG and have listed out the following modules/subsystems that we're going to need to make:
HUD(Heads-up Display) System
EXP/Leveling System
Combat and Navigation System
...
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How to maintain artistic consistency when working with multiple artists?
I'm making a game that requires a volume of artistic content which is not practical to be created by a single person, so I've enlisted the help of additional artists.
The problem is, each artist has ...
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How to structure (the code in) a multiplayer game
I'm working on a rather small project where we will be developing a small engine, a client, a server and an editor of some kind. It's a component-based 3D engine with basic systems like Rendering, ...
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How to deal with “level design creep?”
Level Design Creep is what I've started to call what happens when you build a series of levels and notice that every level is a little bit better looking or designed than the last, or when working ...
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Good Tools & Methodologies for designing Game Arch
I'm currently developing a multiplayer and turnbased silverlight card game and using WCF Polling Duplex communication. I've almost finished the game but I'm still dealing with the methods and ...
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What is the breakdown of jobs in game development?
There's a project I'm trying to start for Indie Game Development; specifically, it's going to be a social networking website that lets developers meet through (It's a secret). One of the key ...
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Collaboration platforms
Are there any good collaboration platforms for game development?
This would include the following features:
Easy way to find various people you need to build games (programmer,
artist etc) and ...
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Technical manager vs. Lead programmer [closed]
Can anyone explain the responsibilities of the Technical managerand the Lead programmer, in team ?
Suppose a medium-size team with about 10-15 persons .
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Starting a game project [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find indie “teams”
I already know this is probably not the right place to ask and, if you think this question does not belong here, please delete ...
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How do you assign a value of different roles in a game design project?
A friend and I are building a game together and having a great time with it, and we hope to sell the product at some point. The prospects for actual earnings maybe be practically nil (and we aren't ...
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What should deliverables for a school game project be?
I am planning on making a 3D hack-n-slash RPG with Unity for a school project. I have to come up with a project proposal. I am suppose to identify project deliverables.
I cannot think of what ...
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How can teams collaborate on Unity 3D projects?
With a friend of mine, we are planning to develop a small game to get the hang of game development and teamwork. But since Unity 3D barely supports version control (or at least the free version lacks ...
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1answer
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Project development in a long distance Indie Dev environment
Myself and 4 other coders have been working as a modding team for the past 7 months. We all have a very good grasp on our preferred language (C#), and also use versioning (GitHub / BitBucket / ...
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What kind of project management should a solo developer project use?
I’m working by myself on a game project whose development could be seperated into 3 independent parts (map generation, the “overworld” engine and the battle engine), but as the development progresses, ...
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Where can you buy/license game art for small projects?
I'm looking for a marketplace of some kind where I can buy small sets of art, probably 2D mostly, a mix of backgrounds, tiles, and animated sprite sets. As a solo mobile developer, I'm really lacking ...
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Working together on a game as a project over the internet
I'm looking for someone who would be willing to work on a project that would potentially become something similar to the game evony/tribal wars, but the project won't be primarily for actually making ...
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Beginning with first project on game development [closed]
Today is the day I am going to start my first real game project. It will be a Universe simulator. Basically, you can build anything from tiny meteor to quazars and universes. It is going to be my ...
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Will polishing my current project be a better learning experience than starting a new one? [closed]
I started programming many years ago. Now I'm trying to make games. I have read many recommendations to start cloning some well known games like galaga, tetris, arkanoid, etc. I have also read that I ...
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Which software to keep track of my project?
I'm about to start the first real phase of my game development which will consist of the acquisition of information, resources and the definition of where I want to go and what I will need for that. I ...
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How important is understanding Software Project Management for an indie?
I ask this because I'm curious to know from people who actually support themselves by making games, if their project management skills contribute to determining the success of a project?
I also have ...
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How should I pay people who work on my game development project?
What is the proper way to pay your team for a game development project? For example, how would you pay to a graphics artists or a musician for their work, especially in the context of today's app ...
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What are the Elements of an MMO Game?
I would really appreciate it if there aren't any answers like "Making MMOs is too expensive", "Don't even try making an MMO!" etc.
I'm trying to point out the elements/jobs that establish an MMO ...
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Combination of DLL/Plugins with Object/Components
I worked on a personal game project (learning) for about the last year or so off and on in Ogre3D. Now that I am starting a new project, I want to avoid the Class Heirarchy for objects and having all ...
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2answers
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How do I turn a game idea, into a game?
I have an idea for a game, and I was wondering, how would I go about grabbing people in the gaming development community to help build this baby that is in my head. I am no coder, but I do understand ...
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Software for game system design overview
Yes so this is a question more oriented towards the planning / project part of game development. What software do you use to plan your game, I am talking about visual stuff like a mindmap application ...
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Has an open console any chance to give more strength to the indie game world?
I have heard about the GPX, but i don't really think the embedded market is mature enough in terms of performance, but what about the home console market ?
I'm not talking about last-generation ...
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Where to find designers for independent projects? [closed]
Let's say I'm a programmer, I know some artists, we've got a game engine and fun prototype done, and we're ready to enter the indie equivalent of "production".
But the game is full of "programmer ...
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Could this MMORPG project-model work?
This is an extension of my previous question.
Recently I had an idea of making an, as I could describe it, agile open-source player-financial-profitable MMORPG, which has an interesting (from my POV) ...
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How many people are needed for making a good (MMO)RPG? [closed]
1) RPG?
2) MMORPG?
I'm talking more about good content here.
Update: Because it is said here that volume of information is low in my question, and because there was too much to say, I created an ...
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How to Divide Responsibilities Between a Two-Man Group?
A partner and I are in the midst of creating a (not so) simple game via C++ and SFML (2D). We have both created some simple games (not together) and would like to start work on a more serious, larger ...
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Questions to answer and heuristics to use when selecting a new project?
Say I have a list of (in my case, indie) game ideas, from which I need to select a new project to work on.
What are the questions/heuristics that you would use - and ideally have already used ...
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how to breakdown my game project?
I am a newbie so when ever i start over i get stuck how to organize things (code) or what should be the order of my work. Can you share your experience of project granularity so i can make my mind ...
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Why are MVC & TDD not employed more in game architecture?
I will preface this by saying I haven't looked a huge amount of game source, nor built much in the way of games.
But coming from trying to employ 'enterprise' coding practices in web apps, looking at ...
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Where to look for team mates?
Where is a good place to look for people interested in creating games online? I'll be using XNA.
I'm going to start the project later this week, but I'm definitely commited to it. I'd like to find ...
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Finding other programmers to help on a project [closed]
As a semi FAQ question attempt :
Where can you find people to work with you on a project? Particularly programmers. One thing that is obvious is that all programmers have a project (or twenty), and ...
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Splitting profit - Equal share vs equity investment (work & money spent = share)
Coming up with an appropriate one-liner question was so hard I wrote the body before the header...
So we're a team of 4 developers; two designers, two coders to put it simply (naturally we don't tie ...
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How to have a successful beta test with a small team?
I've done a lot of work (pro-bono) on a patch to a commercial game from ~11 years ago that needs some beta testing. Loads of people are waiting for it.
What are some ways to get good (by that I mean ...
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How do you gather and collate information you need to make a post-mortem?
After the game is done (either shipped or the project was canned), what is the best way to make the post mortem, so that it maximizes the chances to never make the same mistakes again?
How do you ...
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Where is the time spent?
Game development is a large process. In your experience, how are the total hours for releasing a game divided over the following major areas. I believe this is useful because few people (none?) are ...
