Comments on: Setting a Deadline Is Good (If You Ever Wanna Finish Your Game)

By: Chris P

Chris P — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:09 +0000

One day soon I will have time to be able to work on my game. Then I will definitely set some deadlines!

In particular, once I’m able to work on it a bit more, I really need to set a deadline for a Mayhem Intergalactic feature freeze. Stop working on it and move on, you silly bugger!

By: hObbE @ SpellOfPlay

hObbE @ SpellOfPlay — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:22:06 +0000

Imho it’s best to have a regular deadline. “Deliver working iteration of game every two weeks”. I did this for T.W.T.P.B. and it worked like a charm, was really sweet to get into the habit of releasing instead of doing it as a “big thing”.

Setting big deadlines far away in the future serves no purpose.

This procedure is called time boxing in the Unified Process… I guess more game devs should look into general software development methods and practices, it’s all there…

It’s not rocket science to make games you know, just follow the principles of general software development and you’ll be just fine…

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:02:10 +0000

Sounds good! :)

By: d.evil/quaddev

d.evil/quaddev — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:31:55 +0000

Yeah, I’ve started tiny game half year ago and it’s still unfinished – because of no deadlines. Even one tiny milestone… I think it’s time to set some deadlines now;)

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:23:40 +0000

It’s not a problem. Now it has become a challenge :)

You don’t wanna look like a damn fool, right? So no more running away! Finish the game ;)

By: Toni Mäkinen

Toni Mäkinen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:36:14 +0000

I did set my own internal deadline for the year 2009 last year and still it looks like I don’t make it. I still have lot of doing and time is running fast. My problem is that I’ve been telling all this time it’s going to be in ’09 and if it’s not released then, I just look like a damn fool :)