The Application Of Project Management Theory In Game Project Development

In the software engineering, game project development is a special area. The uniqueness of game software is its development requires several teams which are based on different work principle to work together and produce the game software. During these teams working, it need continually integration among prototyping, describing requirements&implementing, verifying and then improving, and finally find the entertainment to people. Thus, the game project development always face to the challenges about how to apply the traditional software development theory and practice. The game industry need to try some new project management method to solve the development problems, as well as learning from the traditional software development principle. These new method including how to manage the art resource, how to find the "funny" things for the players, how to handle the technical management and risk management, etc.Game industry need to face these challenges, and make the general software engineering method to work for the game project. This article is trying to describing the general project management method, and combine with the software engineering theory, based on several game projects experience, to find some methods which are fit to game development. And focus on how to apply general software development theory to game development. To make some contribution for future game development process unify if possible.