Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature

• Published in: Information and software technology Vol. 134; p. 106538
• Main Authors: Politowski, Cristiano, Petrillo, Fabio, Ullmann, Gabriel C., Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Game industry problems; Gray literature; Postmortem analysis; Software engineering; Postmortem analysis; Gray literature; Game industry problems; Software engineering

Given its competitiveness, the video-game industry has a closed-source culture. Hence, little is known about the problems faced by game developers. However, game developers do share information about their game projects through postmortems, which describe informally what happened during the projects...