A Engenharia de software na análise de dois modelos voltados à fase de pré-produção de jogos digitais

Abstract

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that focuses on the development of high quality software within adequate costs and deadlines. In this sense, the use of Software Engineering (ES) to analyze game development models in the pre-production phase shows how the area can be expanded and mitigate problems arising from management. Games are examples of software which are often complex due to its multidisciplinary nature, involving sound, art, control systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge of the project management discipline as a whole, and since these softwares are multidisciplinary, so are their teams. The digital game development cycle can be divided into stages: pre-production, production and post-production. This work focuses on the first of these, pre-production, the initial stage of the development of a new software, which often has a very high investment, and whose decisions will define the direction of the project. It is also the time to develop the proposal and enter the planning phase. Finally, pre-production can relate well to software engineering as it is the basis for good planning and validation of the software project. This work proposes the analysis of two pre-production processes from the perspective of software engineering.