  The growth of the software game development industry is enormous and is
gaining importance day by day. This growth imposes severe pressure and a number
of issues and challenges on the game development community. Game development is
a complex process, and one important game development choice is to consider the
developer perspective to produce good quality software games by improving the
game development process. The objective of this study is to provide a better
understanding of the developers dimension as a factor in software game success.
It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of key developer
factors on the software game development process and eventually on the quality
of the resulting game. A quantitative survey was developed and conducted to
identify key developer factors for an enhanced game development process. For
this study, the developed survey was used to test the research model and
hypotheses. The results provide evidence that game development organizations
must deal with multiple key factors to remain competitive and to handle high
pressure in the software game industry. The main contribution of this paper is
to investigate empirically the influence of key developer factors on the game
development process.
