# Minimum Viable Product

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/minimum-viable-product/59069>\
**Category:** Game Development\
**Created:** [April 5, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/minimum-viable-product/59069 "2025-04-05T17:08:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sward](https://discourse.libsdl.org/user_avatar/discourse.libsdl.org/sward/32/5719_2.png) [@Sward](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Sward)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/minimum-viable-product/59069/1 "2025-04-05T17:08:34Z")

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Looking back at your favorite childhood games, what do you think the earliest MVP version of that game would look like?

 ![image](https://discourse.libsdl.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/62669e73d2eb96a5599c979d2ea31c89b2be4f56.jpeg)  
Article by Henrik Kniberg explaining the image: → [Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) - and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable - Crisp's Blog](https://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp)

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**Author:** ![Sward](https://discourse.libsdl.org/user_avatar/discourse.libsdl.org/sward/32/5719_2.png) [@Sward](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Sward)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/minimum-viable-product/59069/2 "2025-04-05T17:25:19Z")

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**Pokemon**  
Here’s how I might **imagine** the first pokemon games could have progressed through early development stages.

Stage 1: Pick up stick - go out and find the stick, it’s somewhere out on the board.

Stage 2: Pick up items and things - well now there are collectable items, and even some monsters that maybe you need to use those items on to survive.

Stage 3: Pocket monsters - maybe these monsters are actually collectable as well, and they travel with you.

Stage 4: Let’s add puzzles and mazes, and maybe some other human NPCs to help tell/develop our plots.

Stage 5: NPCs also live in this world, hint at having their own goals, and some of them want to challenge you!

Stage 6: After some play-testing, let’s lean heavy into the collectable monsters idea.

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**Author:** ![elefantinho](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@elefantinho](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/elefantinho)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/minimum-viable-product/59069/3 "2025-04-06T00:02:53Z")

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Go Horse must urgently be translated to english

> **[Desenvolvimento Iterativo - Incremental - GO HORSE PROCESS](https://gohorse.com.br/desenvolvimento-iterativo-incremental.html)**
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> Tanto o Processo Unificado quanto as Metodologias Ágeis dizem que o desenvolvimento deve ser Iterativo e Incremental. Mas o que cada uma destas