The interactive entertainment software development industry has changed dramatically over the last 25 years, but none as quickly as in the last five where realistic, intelligence and interactive gaming has become part of the psyche more than ever before. Just a few years ago, a five-person team could take few months to develop and release a best-selling title; today's complex projects require millions of dollars and hundreds of team members. Increasing demands from publishers, changing technologies, a combination of licensed and internally developed engines, ever growing webs of art assets, and a myriad of deadlines, milestones, and deliverables add to the barrage of realism that is crucial for success in this highly-competitive field.
There are methods to overcome the madness. TechExcel DevSuite is ideally suited to plan development projects, coordinate teams, track work items and their associated milestones, empower QA professionals, and deliver crucial games to production on time.
The Complete Game Development Solution
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TechExcel DevSpec is an integrated requirements management solution that is specifically designed to provide visibility, traceability and validation of your game or game requirements. DevSpec provides a framework to create new requirements, specifications and features that can be linked to your development and testing implementation projects.
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TechExcel Agile Studio delivers the framework for game teams to manage their Agile development process, product backlog, sprint planning, effort estimation, task tracking, burndown charts, sprint reviews, and more. Producers, designers, and publishers can plan and track the important work areas for title development. They can manage resources, determine where to add team members, define marketing and sales goals, and start the critical communication process to the media and the public.
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TechExcel DevTrack empowers development leads, developers, artists, and testers to work together in delivering content according to the plan designed by production. With DevTrack's intuitive functionalities, issues can pass between various teams and departments automatically, helping to eliminate human errors. Core technologies and art assets can be developed independently of actual title development, while still being tracked by those projects that rely on them. Bottlenecks can be prevented and parallel development streams now become possible. All of this takes place through definable processes that not only focus on status of an issue, but the possible actions that a user can take.
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TechExcel DevTest enables QA teams to quickly and accurately cover vast testing areas. Its fully-configurable UI elements expose the data needed for teams to work together to meet critical delivery milestones. Its advanced integration with TechExcel DevTrack makes sure that critical issues are assigned to production and development teams, giving peace of mind that a title can ship by the expected milestones.
DocumentationTechExcel Gaming Case Studies:
Radon Labs
- Radon Labs is a leading European independent Game and Technology development company.
- Radon Labs’ main challenge was to find a solution that could easily handle more than 10,000 items per project, and TechExcel DevSuite was the only serious contender.
Keyfactor Inc.
- Keyfactor delivers a range of services along the entire product lifecycle: during conception, production, communication, QA and promotion of video games for PC, console, handheld and mobile devices.
- TechExcel DevSuite plays an important tracking and supporting role in Keyfactor’s video games future.