The Importance of Game Vision

Having a clear and shared vision has been shown to be a leading factor in enabling successful teams for decades, and is often the leading factor. Video games teams which do not have a clear and shared vision are likely to deliver unclear player experiences and increase their chances of project delays, game cancellations, and even studio closures.

Despite this, games teams have no way of checking if everyone on the team has the same vision or if the quality of that vision is sufficient for the task.

The Measuring Game Vision Alignment Workshop and the Mastering Game Vision Workshop were designed to work together to address these two related problems.

Measuring Game Vision Alignment Workshop

Does everyone on your team interpret their game’s vision in the same way? Can you prove that? If your team is not aligned for even one month, what are the consequences of that? To address this issue, I created the Game Vision Alignment Check, a robust way of measuring how well teams are aligned on their game’s vision. Vision alignment is the number one predictor of a team’s success, yet to date there has been no reliable way to actually check if a team is aligned.

More details on the workshop here Measuring Game Vision Alignment Workshop

Mastering Game Vision Workshop

If the results from the Measuring Game Vision Alignment Workshop show that your team is not aligned on their game’s vision, and it is almost guaranteed that they are not, which factors contribute to that happening? Based on my research at the London School of Economics (LSE), the main cause of this is due to the quality of creators’ mental models, i.e. the internal model creators use when they think about and communicate their game’s experience. Results show that their mental models are not sufficient for the task they are trying to achieve, leading to significant issues throughout development. The Mastering Game Vision Workshop introduces a more accurate model, Vision 1/2/4, to allow creators to define and articulate their game’s vision with greater effectiveness.

More details on the workshop here Mastering Game Vision Workshop

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