Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis

Miikka Lehtonen; Chien Lu; Timo Nummenmaa; Jaakko Peltonen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53294-9_32

Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis

Miikka Lehtonen
, Chien Lu
, Timo Nummenmaa
, Jaakko Peltonen

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Abstract

As the game industry continues to grow in size and revenue, the cost of creating games increases as well, and the successful outcome of game development projects becomes ever more important. In traditional software engineering, it is generally agreed that a successful requirements engineering process has a significant impact on the project. In game development, requirements engineering methods do not seem to be commonly used. As the development of digital games includes specialized aspects of software development, it seems likely that game developers could benefit from adopting these techniques and processes. In this paper, a thorough reading of central and current academic research on the topic is performed to form a holistic picture of the central issues and problems preventing the adoption and widespread use of requirements engineering processes and methods in game development. Additionally, algorithmic analysis of 340 post-mortems written by game developers and published on industry websites is conducted. These post-mortems discuss the factors which contributed to or hindered the successful outcome of these game development projects, and the analysis further supports the identified central issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation
Editors	Anthony Brooks, Eva Irene Brooks
Publisher	Springer
Pages	436-457
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-53293-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53294-9_32
Publication status	Published - 2020
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, and EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation - Duration: 1 Jan 2020 → …

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Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume	328 LNICST
ISSN (Print)	1867-822X

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Conference	EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, and EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation
Period	1/01/20 → …

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The work was supported by Academy of Finland decisions 312395 and 313748, and the Business Finland funded Virpa D project.

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Game development
Literature analysis
Postmortem analysis
Requirements engineering
Text mining

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Lehtonen, M., Lu, C., Nummenmaa, T., & Peltonen, J. (2020). Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis. In A. Brooks, & E. I. Brooks (Eds.), Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (pp. 436-457). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; Vol. 328 LNICST). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53294-9_32

Lehtonen, Miikka ; Lu, Chien ; Nummenmaa, Timo et al. / Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis. Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. editor / Anthony Brooks ; Eva Irene Brooks. Springer, 2020. pp. 436-457 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST).

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Lehtonen, M, Lu, C, Nummenmaa, T & Peltonen, J 2020, Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis. in A Brooks & EI Brooks (eds), Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, vol. 328 LNICST, Springer, pp. 436-457, EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, and EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation, 1/01/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53294-9_32

Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis. / Lehtonen, Miikka; Lu, Chien; Nummenmaa, Timo et al.
Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. ed. / Anthony Brooks; Eva Irene Brooks. Springer, 2020. p. 436-457 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; Vol. 328 LNICST).

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Lehtonen M, Lu C, Nummenmaa T , Peltonen J. Adoption of requirements engineering methods in game development: A literature and postmortem analysis. In Brooks A, Brooks EI, editors, Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. Springer. 2020. p. 436-457. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53294-9_32

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