Prediction of Video Game Development Problems Based on Postmortems using Different Word Embedding Techniques
The interactive entertainment industry is being actively involved with the development, marketing and sale of video games in the past decade. The increasing interest in video games has led to an increase in video game development techniques and methods. It has emerged as an immensely large sector, and now it has grown to be larger than the movie and music industry combined. The postmortem of a game outlines and analyzes the game’s history, team goals, what went right, and what went wrong with the game. Despite its significance, there is little understanding related to the challenges encountered by the programmers. Postmortems are not properly maintained and are informally written, leading to a lack of trustworthiness. In this study, we perform a systematic analysis on different problems faced in the video game development. The need for automation and ML techniques arises because it could help game developers easily identify the exact problem from the description, and hence be able to easily find a solution. This work could also help developers in identifying frequent mistakes that could be avoided, and will provide researchers a beginning point to further consider game development in context of software engineering.
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