ICS 61 – The Game Improves
through Iteration
Based on Schell, ch. 8
Winter, 2015
The quality of a software product is greatly
influenced by the process used to create it.
The quality of a term paper product is greatly
influenced by the process used to create it.
The Rule of the Loop:
The more times you test and improve your design,
the better your game will be.
Design
Test
The Rule of the Loop:
The more times you test and improve your design,
the better your game will be.
This is not a lens or a perspective on games.
It is an absolute truth.
The Rule of the Loop:
The more times you test and improve your design,
the better your game will be.
This is not a lens or a perspective on game.
It is an absolute truth.
By the way, it is equally true for design, art, and
programming.
The Rule of the Loop:
The more times you test and improve your design,
the better your game will be.
1. How can I make every loop count?
2. How can I loop as fast as possible?
The Waterfall Software Process Model
Spiral Model
Great ideas from the Spiral Model:
1.
2.
3.
Risk Assessment
Prototyping
Looping
Great ideas from the Spiral Model:
1.
2.
3.
Risk Assessment
Prototyping
Looping
Applied to game design:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Design
Identify greatest risks in the design
Build prototypes to assess those risks
Test the prototypes
If time hasn’t run out, go to step 1
“Agile” software development
…expects change – in goals, schedules, personnel, …
The Agile Manifesto
We value
1.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2.
Working software over comprehensive documentation
3.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4.
Responding to change over following a plan