Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Agile methods and practices are widely used in software engineering and video game development is a rather new but promising creative economy sector that is developing in Indonesia. While it has many similarities to software engineering, video game development has its own set of challenges unique to it. However, the systematic use and impact of Agile in game development is largely undocumented, unlike in software engineering. This research aims to provide an understanding of this issue specifically in Agate Studio, one of the largest and most successful video game studios based in Indonesia. The findings of this research show that Agate Studio mainly uses Scrum combined with Semi-Waterfall, Kanban, and Scrumban, matching the needs of the project it is used for, whereas XP practices are used implicitly and is also adjust to the type of project under way. The main positive impacts of Agile is on communication, facilitating the finding and change of features, improves quality of the game, on managing the scope of the project, as well as indirectly towards productivity of the development team.