production-planning

Core Philosophy

Game development is the most chaotic engineering discipline in tech because creative fun cannot be scheduled on a Gantt chart. Traditional waterfall planning leads to catastrophic death marches, while unstructured agile causes endless scope creep where games remain in development for 7 years without shipping. Successful game production operates on rigorous phased gating: moving from a brutal Proof of Concept to a polished Vertical Slice, enforcing aggressive scope triage, and defining an unshakeable Definition of Done for First Playable milestones.

4-Step Game Production Framework