scenedriven

Scenedriven is a term used in multimedia production and software development to describe a workflow in which work, data, and logic are organized around discrete scenes. A scene is a self-contained unit that represents a moment in a narrative, a playable segment, or a unit of user interaction. The approach emphasizes planning, implementation, and testing at the scene level rather than around a monolithic, overall application.

In game development, scene-driven architecture structures an application around scenes, with each scene encapsulating its own objects, assets, scripting, and state. Transitions between scenes load the next segment, enabling modular design, easier testing, and faster iteration. In film and animation, scene-driven production plans resources, timing, and shooting order around scenes, supporting parallel workflows and more precise scheduling. In interactive media, scenes map to states or pages, and navigation or branching paths are defined per scene.

Benefits of a scenedriven approach include clearer scope, improved modularity, the ability to parallelize work, targeted quality assurance at the scene level, and faster iteration cycles. It can also simplify asset management by localizing dependencies within a scene. Challenges include managing global state across scenes, cross-scene communication, memory and resource management, and ensuring consistent transitions and user experience across the project.

See also: scene graph, storyboard, modular design, state machine, scene transitions.