A Panorama of Software Architectures in Game Development

As video games evolve into richer and more sophisticated products, the software driving those games become more complex. One of the research areas offered by Software Engineering to cope with this complexity, while reducing risks and improving software quality, is Software Architecture. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of possibly all work having investigated, established and used software architectures for the development of video games. For this, a Systematic Mapping was conducted. The achieved results show an increasing, however still mild, interest in the exploration of software architectures for the development of video games, and lays out lines of research that can be explored. KeywordsSoftware Architecture; Game Development; Video Game; Computer Game; Systematic Mapping