How can we wrap our heads around the chaos of game development? By understanding that the famous phrase “find the fun” implies something important: discovery. How do you manage the creative process? By acknowledging the latter word of the phrase: process. If you can understand how those terms related – and where they differ – you can appreciate something vital to effective production. That nothing we do in game development is completely devoid of process. And, if you can learn to separate the process from the discovery, then science becomes a weapon against the dark forces of development hell. By Reading This Post, You Will Learn The Discovery versus Process framework for understanding your activities Why discovery is the source of much of our management woes in game development How scrutinizing and improving our processes can help us better contend with the risk of discovery The contents of the various parts of … Continue reading Discovery Versus Process – A Preface to Game Planning With Science!