Game Development Process

[Brian Beuken]

Now thats a good question, but it is a very broad answer. As it depends a lot on the team invovled, the scope and scale of the project and the company/individual attitude to project managment.

It can be a very formal system using traditional PM systems but these days agile development is much more common, with small projects often going through a multiple fast protyping system.

Larger projects tend to be driven by a designer as a vision holder who keeps PM's on track with concept and revision as well as iteration when needed.
Agile these days is the norm, but honestly its very much down to company mentality.

Small one man projects really sufffer when agile is overused, I once had a producer on a project drive me insane by constantly iterrating on working code 5 or 6 times. As a solo coder it was frustrating. But in a team with others it can be very effective.
Lets hope others can add comment to this so we can get more personal insights.