ABC-Sprints: Adapting scrum to academic game development courses

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 187-194

  Schild, Jonas ^a   Walter, Robert ^a   Masuch, Maic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Education; Game development; Games; Scrum; Team projects; XNA

Indexed keywords

COURSE DESIGN; EDUCATION GAME; GAME DESIGN; GAME DEVELOPMENT; GAME PROJECTS; TEAM PROJECTS; WALKTHROUGHS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 77955124469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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