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Towards an Understanding of Game Software Development Processes: A Case Study

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2015)

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This paper aims to fill the gap that exists about software development processes in game development in the research literature, and address the gap in the research literature by investigating and reporting information about the software development processes used in game development. To investigate the role of the software development process in relation to the game development process, and to better understand the processes and practices used in game software development, a single industrial based case study was undertaken and reported to investigate in a real world context the software development processes and practices used in game development. This research contributes to our knowledge of the field of game development and potentially forms the foundation for further research in the area.

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  1. Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

    Ann Osborne O’Hagan

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

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  1. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  2. Turkish Standards Institution, Ankara, Turkey

    Mariye Umay Akkaya

  3. Turkish Standards Institution, Ankara, Turkey

    Kerem Kemaneci

  4. Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

    Murat Yilmaz

  5. Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Alexander Poth

  6. I.S.C.N. GesmbH, Graz, Austria

    Richard Messnarz

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O’Hagan, A.O., O’Connor, R.V. (2015). Towards an Understanding of Game Software Development Processes: A Case Study. In: O’Connor, R., Umay Akkaya, M., Kemaneci, K., Yilmaz, M., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 543. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24647-5_1

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