Inside each one are smaller goals called milestones. Along the way you could a) find they are sold out of tickets, b) run out of gas or c) be too late for the showing. You could break it down like this:Įach one of those points is a big ticket item that, if not achieved, stops the entire show-going experience. As an analogy, let’s say you want to go to a concert. They are generally planned around a thematic goal that all the work within the phase is working to achieve. In other words, they must approve the continued investment in a title. Usually to move onto the next phase the project sponsors or customers must sign off. Alpha, Beta and Gold are the easy ones to point out. Think of phases like large time boxes with concrete gates the project must pass through before moving to the next. Video games are a creative endeavor and creative endeavors are notoriously hard to schedule and plan. There are far too many unknown challenges and most aren’t discovered until well into the project. These phases might be fine for projects like “widget building” but software development can’t work under these strict guidelines. Traditional project management advocates phased development for many endeavors. I hope to get lots of feedback since my own skewed vision of the phases is undoubtedly different from what other teams have experienced. In this article I’ll share my own idyllic Bigfoot Model. For brand new producers it’s completely foreign. They often don’t have a mental model of how to get from point A to point B, from concept to completion to servicing.
Many producers don’t understand the phases of product development. Theory is great but it’s often less than accurate when it comes to day to day, actual game making. I only wish it worked my way in the real world. It’s full of failure, course corrections, poor practices, rotten conditions, buggy tools, crunch hours and a myriad of other pitfalls. Worse, some people think they’ve actually seen it and present it as fact. Beyond that, I’ve never met anyone who has either. There is some circumstantial evidence but no one has actual proof that it exists. In reality I’ve never experienced this impossible software development model.
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