Importance of Team-working in the Game Industry

Marc Mencher, the author of Becoming a  Stellar Games Industry Manager, Part 1: Building a Great Team, describes the meaning of team as;

"A team is a group of people working together to achieve a goal, which can be anything from winning the World Series to creating the newest FPS. At its best, a team uses a ton of mad skills to come up with (hopefully cost-effective) non-traditional solutions that give their company a major edge on the competition. At its worst, it’s a bottomless pit with the potential to sink the company ship forever." 

Team-working is a must in the game industry. This factor applies all games not just RPG games. Developing a game needs knowledge and skills that can not be provided by one person. Like designing, programming, testing. Also, it's too complex to handle by just one person. Because of these reasons a game can not be created by one person even you have the enough money to do it.  So, you need to create teams and merge these teams with your leadership skills in order to create a game.

Creating these teams are also the crucial part of the game development for the leader of the project . A leader of the game project had to think about who he/she is going to work with. The most important requirement in a team is the fact that members must have skills and knowledge in their related fields. Especially they need to have problem solving skills because game development means: Solving various bugs as well as common problems that may occur in the development process.

After the process of creating teams, the most important process of the team-working in game industry is scheduling the meeting between team leaders and leader of the project. Because of the numbers of teams in the game development process, the communication between the team members and the leader of the project is nearly impossible. Therefore, the meeting between the leader of the project and team leaders is crucial part of team-working in the game industry. The Leader learn everything about teams and team members with these meetings or the reports of team leaders.

Also the video which is an interview with Patrick Curry shows the important factors about game development process as well as team working;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vassKL9bbbE

In the conclusion, team-working is an essential part of creating a game. But a leader of the game project have to understand the importance of recruiting team and communication between the team leaders in order to have maximum effect on their project.