Comments on: The art of flash game production (with some baggage bowling fun thrown in) http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/2010/01/the-art-of-flash-game-production-with-some-baggage-bowling-fun-thrown-in/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Thought Den’s art of Flash game production | We Are Team Rubber http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/2010/01/the-art-of-flash-game-production-with-some-baggage-bowling-fun-thrown-in/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Thought Den’s art of Flash game production | We Are Team Rubber Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:26:47 +0000 http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/?p=517#comment-230 [...] really good ‘Rules of Production’ from our compatriots at Thought Den in their The art of flash game production (with some baggage bowling fun thrown in) [...] [...] really good ‘Rules of Production’ from our compatriots at Thought Den in their The art of flash game production (with some baggage bowling fun thrown in) [...]

]]> By: Pitkin http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/2010/01/the-art-of-flash-game-production-with-some-baggage-bowling-fun-thrown-in/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Pitkin Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:20:21 +0000 http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/?p=517#comment-229 Testing and QA is also a big factor. There are always so many factors that can be missed in the building of a Flash game... Will the Play Again button work after my sixtieth play? Can I submit my high score and will it remember my name from last time? Will it play in Flash Player 6 and IE5.5? (no) ...are all things that can be missed by either a lack of QA time and expertise or a badly briefed, disengaged QAer. Agree on the docs, documentation needs to be used for decompiling a client spec and briefing teams. But it must be a team decision to either keep it updated with every change, or be actively left at the briefing stage and work any updates completely into prototypes and visuals. A halfway option is normally the easy option and it's the bad one! Testing and QA is also a big factor. There are always so many factors that can be missed in the building of a Flash game… Will the Play Again button work after my sixtieth play? Can I submit my high score and will it remember my name from last time? Will it play in Flash Player 6 and IE5.5? (no) …are all things that can be missed by either a lack of QA time and expertise or a badly briefed, disengaged QAer.

Agree on the docs, documentation needs to be used for decompiling a client spec and briefing teams. But it must be a team decision to either keep it updated with every change, or be actively left at the briefing stage and work any updates completely into prototypes and visuals. A halfway option is normally the easy option and it’s the bad one!

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