Early Requirements Engineering Practices for Gaming Companies

Abstract: Within the game development industry, requirements engineering (RE) is applied and used for finding out and setting requirements during the mid to late stages of the software development cycle. Yet, early requirements engineering (ERE) which is used during the early stages of the software development cycle has not been adopted by the game development industry. The argument being that ERE within video game development is time consuming and contradicting towards how games should be developed. This thesis is an attempt to design an artifact in the form of a design science research which would be used to help game development companies establish ERE in order to define the vision of the game being developed, along with having and sharing a clear