Games get in the fast lane

Thu, Jun 5, 2008

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From guardian.co.uk:

“Often we are told that the videogame industry moves really, REALLY fast, but the strange thing is, games can take up to three years to produce, which is positively geological. What’s more, for many years, studios producing a game found it almost impossible to react to fads or just their own brilliant new ideas because most subscribed to the waterfall method of development – a rigidly segregated production line, in which every element is implemented according to an unchanging design document.

“However, several years ago, companies started to experiment with a technique known as agile development…”

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