Questions tagged [project-management]
The process of tracking progress and measuring success of a series of related tasks.
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Why are MVC & TDD not employed more in game architecture? [closed]
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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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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What should be created first in a video game? [closed]
When starting developing a video game, should one focus on creating the environment (buildings, trees, mountains etc) first or the A.I. (Playable character, NPCs etc)?
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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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Where to look for team mates? [closed]
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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Where can I find indie "teams" [closed]
I'm looking to work over the internet in a team of people to make a game. I'm not looking to make a profit, I just want the experiance. Where can I find similary minded persons?
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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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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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How to nest one Unity project into another?
I'm creating an AI course in Unity. With regard to my question, there are two important properties of the course:
Each tutorial is a separate Unity project that can be loaded up, allowing the student ...
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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 significant is the addition of multiplayer to a singleplayer game compared to starting with multiplayer in mind?
Especially for game designers or software engineers, I was wondering how significant of an increase in difficulty/frustration/workload it would be for multiplayer to be an afterthought of a ...
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How do I turn a game idea, into a game? [closed]
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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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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Our designer refuses to work because of job official title [closed]
Our game contains comics to tell part of the story, and our comic designer says that he is not responsible for designing the characters in the comics because it is the job of the character designer.
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Could this MMORPG project-model work? [closed]
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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