Arnold Hendrick's Blog
Veteran game designer and producer who entered computer gaming in 1983 (as a designer at Coleco), and retired (at age 66) to periodic consulting in 2016. Has over 25 published console, PC, and MMO titles with designer or producer credit (and sometimes both).
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[Blog - 06/29/2018 - 09:57]
@Meredith Hall - I recently ...
@Meredith Hall - I recently had to do review and pick a project management tool for new game project and studio I was setting up. My results were VERY different from yours. This is probably because I was focusing on tools for a development group working for a year or ...
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[News - 05/30/2017 - 03:43]
A VIEW AFTER 33 YEARS ...
A VIEW AFTER 33 YEARS IN THE GAME INDUSTRY: r n r nI have been in the computer game industry from 1983 at Coleco, working on Colecovision games through 2016 working as a consulting designer for a small PC and mobile game company . Throughout I have been a designer ...
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[Blog - 10/23/2013 - 10:59]
In using Agile for almost ...
In using Agile for almost a decade in game development, I 've noticed that discipline-oriented studios have the biggest problems, since at least one department will strongly resist the creation of cross-functional teams. r n r nHowever, once that problem is removed, a more sigificant one emerges. Even the best ...
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[Blog - 10/16/2013 - 05:20]
Fairness in F2P PvP games ...
Fairness in F2P PvP games is very tricky. If opponents are matched up randomly, a player will be more successful if they have more cards to build a deck from in a CCG , or use a gold tank that is biased to the top of the match 's tier ...
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[Blog - 10/08/2013 - 11:22]
Scrum and agile are weak ...
Scrum and agile are weak tools for long-range planning and feature estimation. An undeclared by very obvious core philosophy in agile is that the further out you look, your plans become more ambiguous. In point 1 above, it seems that author advocates using the backlog as some kind of perfect ...
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[Blog - 10/04/2013 - 07:28]
Based on my 30 years ...
Based on my 30 years experience designing and producing computer games, I entirely agree with Samuel 's points in this article. r n r nIn-depth study professional knowledge of project management and agile methodologies reinforces the above points. Just because management tools provide various methods for organizing time, money and ...
