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•Games: More than You’d Imagine.

•What’s in a Game?

•Who Makes Games?

•Are you Game?

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More than you’d imagine: History of games

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More than you’d imagine: Game Systems

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Console Games

Serious Games

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Handheld Games

PC Games

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More than you’d imagine: Game system: Console Games

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•Cool factoids about speed up in console games ‘Did you know… ?!”

•Factoids on how powerful they are

•Media clip on the speed ?

•Analogy on advance rate to cars/planes

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•Cool factoids about MMOG’s ‘Did you know… ?!”

•How many ?

•Collaboration ?

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More than you’d imagine: Game system: PC Games


•See below

More than you’d imagine: Game system: Handheld Games

More than you’d imagine: Game systems : Serious Games

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•Games that teach (like the ibm game)

•Games that raise awareness. (darfur is dying)

•Other serious references

What is a Serious Game?What is a Serious Game?

Marries the play-based, exploratory, reward-based learning that occurs in games to a social, educational or communication mission.

ex: America’s Army http://www.americasarmy.com Darfur is Dying http://www.darfurisdying.com

Façade http://www.interactivestory.net/

Making History http://www.muzzylane.com

Re-Mission http://www.re-mission.net

Marries the play-based, exploratory, reward-based learning that occurs in games to a social, educational or communication mission.

ex: America’s Army http://www.americasarmy.com Darfur is Dying http://www.darfurisdying.com

Façade http://www.interactivestory.net/

Making History http://www.muzzylane.com

Re-Mission http://www.re-mission.net

More than you’d imagine: Serious game engines

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•Cool healthcare uses of game engines

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Game Dev. Stages• The Idea• The Pitch• Proof of Concept• Start of Development

– Milestone 1• Alpha• Beta• Gold

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Game Dev. Stages: The Idea• Concept for a new game• Clearly described:

– Outlining the game world, characters, challenges– Lose-or-win scenarios, basic mechanics

• Becomes the pitch document– Gets the game accepted or rejected by the publisher

• Time: weeks to months or even years• Personnel: Small core team or leads: creative director,

lead designer, lead artist, lead writer

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The Pitch• Idea presented to publisher (maybe manager, depending

on game author)• If idea captures interest, usually includes suggested

revisions• Idea is finally accepted• Time: weeks


Proof of Concept• Designer gets budget to build a prototype

– Will be thrown away before game done• Game design expanded to larger document

– Focusing on details of gameplay (play mechanics)– Avoid focusing too much on user interface

• Budget proposed– Including time and money

• Game will be developed using the prototype and the design document as guidance

• Not guaranteed to go to development yet– That determined by success of this stage

• Time to build prototype and design document: 2 to 3 months• Personnel: Small core team or leads: Producer, creative director, lead designer,

lead artist, lead writer lead programmer, may include additional members, level designers, other programmers, concept artist, animator, modelers.


Start of Development• Development team assembled

– Uses design document that is 90% done • Process broken into milestones

– Milestones for measuring progress– Game is tested for gameplay and quality

• How many milestones are there?– Number depends on the size of the project

• Typically fixed from the beginning– Need to avoid urge to add features (creep) during milestone

cycles!• Time between milestones: about 2 months• Personnel: Small core team or leads: Producer, creative director,

lead designer, lead artist, lead writer lead programmer, • Add production team: level designers, game programmers,

hardware programmers, AI programmers, concept artist, 3D artists, animators, technical artists, modelers, testers, sound design, music composers


Milestone 1• Most critical milestone• Game should have functional (not complete) art, sound and code• Can assess feasibility and budget

– Make changes, as appropriate• Then, rushes headlong into development!• Time to complete this milestone: 2-3 months• Personnel: Small core team or leads: Producer, creative director,

lead designer, lead artist, lead writer lead programmer, • Production team: level designers, game programmers, hardware

programmers, AI programmers, concept artist, 3D artists, animators, technical artists, modelers, testers, sound design, music composers


Alpha• Lot of variation as to what is an Alpha• Complete with Art, Sound and Code• Not fully tested• Some tuning, last minute additions and changes can still be done • Time to achieve Alpha from last milestone: 1 month• Personnel: Small core team or leads: Producer, creative director,

lead designer, lead artist, lead writer lead programmer, • Production team: level designers, game programmers, hardware

programmers, AI programmers, concept artist, 3D artists, animators, technical artists, modelers, testers, sound design, music composers


Beta• Finished game, all features tested and tuned• External testing to check compatibility issues• Users play free of charge in exchange for reporting bugs• (Hopefully) no changes to any art, sound or code

– Only bug fixes• Time to Beta from Alpha: 2 weeks• Personnel: Producer, creative director, lead designer,

may lose lead artist, lead writer lead programmer, • Production team cut way back to a core testing and

fixing team: programmers, 3D artist, designer, testers


Gold Master• Accepted as complete• Includes known bugs

(Time to Gold from Beta: one to two weeks.)

Distribution• Game is mass produced• Put into boxes, shrink-wrapped and shipped to retailers

(Time to shelves from Gold: 1 to 2 months)


Who Makes Games?

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Who Makes Games?

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For Each Role:

•Possibly a picture/ with bio or media link

•Describe role? (link to the step)

•How much they earn.

•How many on a project (general terms)

•What other jobs can they do?

•What do they need to study? (link to the avatar thing)


Plan and designPlan and design

ModellingModelling

TexturingTexturing

Skin WeightingSkin Weighting

Control RiggingControl Rigging

AnimationAnimation

What’s in a Game: OR Who Makes Games

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Stuff about the step

• what’s the goal

•What’s involved

•how hard

•Possibly an example

• who does it (link to role)


Who Makes Games: Salary chart

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Scientist

Engineer

Mathematician

Finance

Medical Dr.

Political Scientists

Lawyers

General Managers

CEO,

Pilot

Medical Dr.

Astronomer

Top 15 Professions

Avg $117-150K

Next 30 Professions

Avg $82-108K

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Who Makes Games: Are You Game?

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Game Programmer

Producer

Digital Artist

Hardware

Programming

Math

Art

Writing

History

Interests Roles

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