Better Scripts, Better Games

ABSTRACT

The video game industry earned $8.85 billion in revenue in 2007, almost as much as movies made at the box office. Much of this revenue was generated by blockbuster titles created by large groups of people. Though large development teams are not unheard of in the software industry, game studios tend to have unique collections of developers. Software engineers make up a relatively small portion of the game development team, while the majority of the team consists of content creators such as artists, musicians, and designers.

REFERENCES

• 1: Walker White , Benjamin Sowell , Johannes Gehrke , Alan Demers, Declarative processing for computer games, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Video games, August 09-10, 2008, Los Angeles, California [doi>10.1145/1401843.1401847]
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.8 PERSONAL COMPUTING
      K.8.0 General
          Subjects: Games

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.0 General
      D.2.m Miscellaneous

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.3 Software Management

General Terms:
Design, Management, Theory