ABSTRACT
The event that most shaped modern game design and development occurred in 2001 at a ski resort in Snowbird, Utah, when a group of software engineers put together the Agile Manifesto. Agile and scrum made a huge impact on the software world and a bigger impact on videogame developers, who have been especially passionate about embracing these principles. It is widely understood that rapid prototyping is crucial for quality game development. Game developers of every stripe have one thing in common: they are proud of their craft. While the system engineers work on prototypes to answer technology questions, the artists can work on art prototypes, and the game scripters can work on gameplay prototypes. Even real-time games can be played as paper prototypes. As things change in the course of game development, sometimes more time becomes available.
