Toward Quality-Driven Development of 3D Computer Games

The development of video games is a complex software engineering activity bringing together large multidisciplinary teams under stringent constraints. While much has been written about how to develop video games, there has been as yet little attempt to view video game development from a quality perspective, attempting to enumerate the quality attributes that must be satisfied by game implementations, and to relate implementation techniques to those quality attributes. In this paper, we discuss desired quality attributes of 3D computer games, and we use the development of our own Life is a Village game to illustrate architectural tactics that help achieve these desired qualities.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DSVIS
• Authors: T. C. Nicholas Graham, Will Roberts
• Keywords: DSVIS 2006, Human Computer Interaction, Quality Attributes, Video Game, Video Game Development