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Taxonomy of Game Development Approaches

Author : Mohamed Abbadi

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Abstract

While it might seem desirable to “program” games “close to a high-level specification”, the pragmatic reality has not, until very recently, allowed this. In this chapter we discuss the fundamental aspects that define a game and show how these aspects are captured by means of the so-called game development tools. In particular, we show: (i) how the various historical tools have always been intrinsically inspired by the dominant programming languages/paradigms that were the most popular at the time when the tool was developed; and (ii) we discuss these tools by comparing their pro and cons (typically imposed by the chosen language/paradigm or the available hardware) in order to understand the most important requirements for their next generations.

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Metadata
Title
Taxonomy of Game Development Approaches
Author
Mohamed Abbadi
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-46151-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-46152-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_6

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