Game Development Leadership Tips

Synonyms

Administration; Conduction; Direction; Management

Definition

Leadership is the craft of inspiring and guiding people to achieve an objective. In game development, this objective is completing a game within time using the allocated budget while presenting great quality.

Introduction

Video game development has deeply technical details inherently related to it. The most basic of them is the hardware on which the game will run. It will shape, in part, the software and often artistic assets.

There are also more subjective points related to it like: how fun is it, how beautiful are its graphics, how good is its music or sound, and how good is the composition of all the above items. The game story and the many subtleties of the craft can also be summed to these elements.

There is still one factor that is decisive for the success of failure of the vast majority of games: the people who make those games. While many games had great ideas and teams behind them, capable of producing all a...