Team Leadership In The Game Industry

Author : Seth Spaulding
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781598635720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Team Leadership in the Game Industry written by Seth Spaulding and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides game industry professionals management and leadership skills and tools to help them become better leaders. Focusing specifically on the unique challenges of the game industry, the book features examples, case studies, and successful strategies directly from the industry experts."--Publisher.

Author : Craig E. Johnson
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478637072
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership written by Craig E. Johnson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership: A Communication Perspective has been at the forefront of university and college leadership courses for nearly three decades, providing a compelling, authoritative introduction to leadership as a communication-based activity. The new edition continues the tradition of excellence with an up-to-date treatment of theory and research combined with practical, real-world advice for improving communication competence and leadership effectiveness. Relevant: The authors profile contemporary leaders and organizations like Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Uber, The Container Store, Airbnb, Chipotle, the Waffle House, Nordstrom, and Google. Their presentation balances current scholarship and trends with historical perspectives to provide a fuller understanding of the study and practice of leadership. Comprehensive: Leadership and followership are examined in multiple contexts, including organizational leadership, public leadership, and leadership in groups and teams. Topics new to this edition include transcendent followership, the leadership skills approach, team coaching, escalation of commitment, invisible leadership, cultural intelligence, trigger events, and resilience. Full-featured: Self-Assessments measure readers’ perceptions of personal leadership skills, communication style, cultural intelligence, motivation to lead, and more. Case Studies examine leadership situations and pose thoughtful questions that prompt students to apply their experiences and understandings. Research Highlights summarize seminal and recent scholarship. Chapter Takeaways reinforce important concepts and action steps. Application Exercises offer abundant opportunities to explore, practice, and reflect on chapter content. Cultural Connections discuss leadership expectations and behaviors in other cultures. Leadership on the Big Screen correlates chapter concepts with the themes of popular films and documentaries.

Author : Heather Maxwell Chandler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429801777
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game Production Toolbox written by Heather Maxwell Chandler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Production Toolbox focuses on the nuts and bolts of producing interactive content and how you can organize and support the creative, technical, and business efforts that are all part of interactive game development. This book isn’t going to tell you how to design a game or what technologies to use. Instead it provides techniques for and insights into managing, from concept to release, all the pieces that must come together in order to get a game into the hands of a player. Readers will learn about each phase of game production: prototyping, defining the requirements, assembling the team, making the game, and releasing to the players. Interviews from professional game developers give a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make a game. Key Features A framework for how to get an interactive game from concept to release, including information on financing and pitching to publishers and investors. Techniques for working with the game development team to get effective prototypes and documentation to prove out game concept and mechanics. Concrete information on how to plan and execute the different aspects of game production, such as audio, localization, testing, and software ratings. Advice from industry experts on managing teams, project management, communicating effectively, and keeping everyone happy. Information about working effectively with marketing, PR, and other people that are involved with the publishing and release process.

Author : Clinton Keith
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321670280
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile Game Development with Scrum written by Clinton Keith and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-05-23 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliver Better Games Faster, On Budget—And Make Game Development Fun Again! Game development is in crisis—facing bloated budgets, impossible schedules, unmanageable complexity, and death march overtime. It’s no wonder so many development studios are struggling to survive. Fortunately, there is a solution. Scrum and Agile methods are already revolutionizing development outside the game industry. Now, long-time game developer Clinton Keith shows exactly how to successfully apply these methods to the unique challenges of game development. Keith has spent more than fifteen years developing games, seven of them with Scrum and agile methods. Drawing on this unparalleled expertise, he shows how teams can use Scrum to deliver games more efficiently, rapidly, and cost-effectively; craft games that offer more entertainment value; and make life more fulfilling for development teams at the same time. You’ll learn to form successful agile teams that incorporate programmers, producers, artists, testers, and designers—and promote effective collaboration within and beyond those teams, throughout the entire process. From long-range planning to progress tracking and continuous integration, Keith offers dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions—all based firmly in reality and hard-won experience. Coverage includes Understanding Scrum’s goals, roles, and practices in the context of game development Communicating and planning your game’s vision, features, and progress Using iterative techniques to put your game into a playable state every two to four weeks— even daily Helping all team participants succeed in their roles Restoring stability and predictability to the development process Managing ambiguous requirements in a fluid marketplace Scaling Scrum to large, geographically distributed development teams Getting started: overcoming inertia and integrating Scrum into your studio’s current processes Increasingly, game developers and managers are recognizing that things can’t go on the way they have in the past. Game development organizations need a far better way to work. Agile Game Development with Scrum gives them that—and brings the profitability, creativity, and fun back to game development.

Author : Kurt Squire
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236249X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Games for Impact written by Kurt Squire and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing games for learning: case studies show how to incorporate impact goals, build a team, and work with experts to create an effective game. Digital games for learning are now commonplace, used in settings that range from K–12 education to advanced medical training. In this book, Kurt Squire examines the ways that games make an impact on learning, investigating how designers and developers incorporate authentic social impact goals, build a team, and work with experts in order to make games that are effective and marketable. Because there is no one design process for making games for impact—specific processes arise in response to local needs and conditions—Squire presents a series of case studies that range from a small, playable game created by a few programmers and an artist to a multimillion-dollar project with funders, outside experts, and external constraints. These cases, drawn from the Games + Learning + Society Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, show designers tackling such key issues as choosing platforms, using data analytics to guide development, and designing for new markets. Although not a how-to guide, the book offers developers, researchers, and students real-world lessons in greenlighting a project, scaling up design teams, game-based assessment, and more. The final chapter examines the commercial development of an impact game in detail, describing the creation of an astronomy game, At Play in the Cosmos, that ships with an introductory college textbook.

Author : Judd Ruggill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134076517
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Video Game Industry written by Judd Ruggill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio and business professions. From hiring and firing conventions, attitudes about gender disparity, goals for work-life balance, and a span of legal, psychological, and communal intellectual property protection mechanisms, the book's combination of accessible industry talk and incisive thematic overviews is ideal for anyone interested in games as a global industry, a site of cultural study, or a prospective career path. Designed for researchers, educators, and students, this book provides a critical perspective on an often opaque business and its highly mobile workforce. Additional teaching materials, including activities and study questions, can be found at https://www.routledge.com/9780415828284.

Author : William B. Rouse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047173943X
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Simulation written by William B. Rouse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From modeling and simulation to games and entertainment With contributions from leaders in systems and organizational modeling, behavioral and social sciences, computing and visualization, and gaming and entertainment, Organizational Simulation both articulates the grand vision of immersive environments and shows, in detail, how to realize it. This book offers unparalleled insight into the cutting edge of the field, since it was written by those who actually researched, designed, developed, deployed, marketed, sold, and critiqued today's best organizational simulations. The coverage is divided into four sections: * Introduction outlines the need for organizational simulation to support strategic thinking, design of unprecedented systems, and organizational learning, including the functionality and technology required to enable this support * Behaviors covers the state of knowledge of individual, group, and team behaviors and performance, how performance can best be supported, how performance is affected by national differences, and how organizational performance can best be measured * Modeling describes the latest approaches to modeling and simulating people, groups, teams, and organizations, as well as narrative contexts and organizational environments within which these entities act, drawing from a rich set of modeling methods and tools * Simulations and Games illustrates a wide range of fielded simulations, games, and entertainment, including the methods and tools employed for designing, developing, deploying, and evaluating these systems, as well as the social implications for the associated communities that have emerged Addressing all levels of organizational simulation architecture with theories and applications, and enabling technologies for each, Organizational Simulation offers students and professionals the premier reference and practical toolbox for this dynamic field.

Author : Karan Ferrell-Rhodes
Publisher : Mountain Arbor Press
ISBN 13 : 9781631839108
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lead at the Top of Your Game written by Karan Ferrell-Rhodes and published by Mountain Arbor Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few individuals or companies are perceived as being global leaders in their game. As a veteran leadership and organizational development executive of numerous Fortune 100 corporations, Karan Ferrell-Rhodes researched over 10,000 global high-potential leaders, to pinpoint how they rose to the top of their game in their profession or industry. After evaluating how these stars overcame inhibitors to reach the pinnacle of success that only 5% of the population achieves, her discovery was this simple yet powerful idea: Leaders become elite by providing differentiating value to an urgent, unmet need. In Lead at the Top of Your Game, Karan provides a blueprint how, you too, can be successful in carving out a niche to lead in your own game of choice, no matter if you are: ?An entrepreneur looking to catapult your business in a way that draws more raving fans?A high potential individual chartering your professional trajectory?A manager looking to invigorate your directs into an even higher performing team?A leader accountable for long-term sustainability in a hyper-competitive industry. In order to influence others in a way which compels them to follow your lead, she shows why it is critical to master: 1. Disrupting the game, by transforming your key strengths into key differentiators. 2. Owning the game, by honing your craft and showcasing the 7 Leadership Tactics That Drive Differentiating Value: Intellectual Horsepower, Courageous Agility, Strategic Decision, Intrapreneurship, Drive for Results, Executive Presence, Stakeholder Savvy. 3. Branding the game, by successfully associating your name, product, or service with your profession or industry. We are living in an era where even the most ambitious and rewarding work must fight for the attention of those it can serve the most. If you desire to learn how to lead at the top of your game in order to become successful in unexpected ways, realize the impact you want to make in the world and attract a legend of raving fans in the process . . . then this book is for you!

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213526
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Author : J. Poolos
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448896029
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Careers in Online Gaming written by J. Poolos and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gaming industry has exploded in the past decade. However, online gaming is positioned to take this industry to the next level. Readers are introduced to what online gaming actually is and how it is significantly different from traditional gaming. Further, this title offers young people an invaluable resource into the burgeoning fields in online gaming, such as social gaming, which involves social networking in gameplay; designing games, which requires artistic as well as computer skills; and software engineers, who need to understand the online platform. In addition to job descriptions, readers learn of the specific educational requirements employers seek as well as insights from real-world professionals in the various fields, which add perspective and depth to already-informative content. This title is essential for anyone looking to dive into this creative industry that still offers a lot of potential.