There's a concept in there that's important to understand as a fundamental feature of development that can be a bit elusive that I want to take a moment to clarify.  framework. What is a framework...  two key things it describes the relationship/connections between parts that make up a thing.      - it’s the essence and nature of their complexity.  It’s their plan, whether theoretical or realized in the form of an actual thing. It’s…

The universe is big and complicated and full of information that can be seen and understood and articulated by deciphering it into its component parts and connections.  Being humans with human minds we are endowed with the wonderful capacity to see beyond just the physical stuff that is sensible immediately around us in space.  Our cognitive abilities allow us to recognize, understand and articulate parts and connections extending through the dimension of time as well.  …

Welcome to Stuff is Parts!  My name is Todd DeMelle.  My intent for this blog is to use it to share an evolving model of how development works with the hope of enabling more effective development.   I've been thinking a lot about what development is and how to get better at it over the last decade or so mostly in my role as a video game art director working on big, complex games with multi-disciplinary…