Effektivisering av UI-utveckling i datorspel
This thesis presents my work at the company Fatshark AB in Stockholm. My supervisor Rikard Blomberg, who works as a chief technology officer at Fatshark and is one of the owners of the company, explained that they had experienced weaknesses in the methodology used when developing heads up displays (HUD) for their games. In the latest production, Lead and Gold, the HUD had been redesigned a number of times, becoming an unnecessarily big expense due to the number of work hours invested. In modern software development, an iterative workflow is commonly encouraged. Despite this fact, the work efficiency could likely be increased by setting up guidelines as a help in the process of developing HUDs and reviewing the solutions. There was also a need for a way to estimate a particular redesign?s impact on the game before the actual implementation had been made, and ways to define the pros and cons of each redesign.My task was to come up with standards for how the different elements in a UI could be structured and reviewed, in order to improve the developing process of the UI and facilitate the communication between employees. These standards were to be designed by a team consisting of Fatshark employees from different work disciplines and myself.