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Managing Game Production Management: The concept of Gamifying the Game Development Process

Translated title

Term

4. term

Education

Publication year

2016

Submitted on

Pages

67

Abstract

This investigation aimed to determine whether it would be possible to make management more engaging to game developers utilizing a management application. This led to an investigation of how game productions progress, management methodologies, work engagement and gamification which resulted in the final problem statement: “To what extent is it possible to utilize Gamification as a tool for motivating users and inducing a sense of teamwork across a game productions Production phase through a task tracking tool utilizing elements from Agile development?” In order to answer the problem statement, multiple tests were conducted in order to gather information. Additionally a management system utilizing gamification was developed based on the data collected through the questionnaires and the research. The final test, being a focus group interview indicated that there was a tendency for the management tool developed to motivate users to report their task completion. Aalborg