intro - milestones - schedule - readings - resources

Game Design and Production Capstone - Spring 2016

Readings

Perforce

• Perforce user guide
• Getting started with Perforce
• Perforce Cheat Sheet

Idea Generation and Iteration

• The Game Begins with an Idea
• Group Brainstorming: IDEO
• The Game Improves Through Iteration

Playtesting

• Playtesting: Game Design Workshop
• Good Games Are Created Through Playtesting: Schell

Prototyping

• How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
• Advanced Prototyping: Hecker

Postmortems

• Mediatonic's Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess
• A Story Of GameLayers, Inc.
• Lessons from the Trenches
• Nimble Strong - An Excerpt from Buttonless: Incredible iPhone And iPad Games
• The Making Of Fez, The Breaking Of Phil Fish
• Smudged Cat Games' The Adventures Of Shuggy

Studio Culture

• The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life
• Studio Culture: Team Meat's Super Meat Boy

Agile Development

• Agile Development Manifesto
• SCRUM
• Fun Over Features - Manifesto for Agile Game Development