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Games Development
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What do we need?
- The Games Design Document
- The Technical Design Document
- Development Team
- Publisher
- Plan (and Money)!
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Technical Design Document
- Interaction/ Layout Diagrams (see week 3 Lecture
Notes) - UML (Unified Modelling Language) Diagrams
- Use Case Diagrams
- Class Diagrams
- State Diagrams
- Collaboration Diagrams
- Sequence Diagrams etc.
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Considerations
- Planning/ Schedule and Budget
- Saving Time and Money - Existing Component
Libraries - Graphics
- Sounds
- Game Engines (e.g. Goldeneye 007 gt Perfect Dark,
Quake 2 gt Half Life) - Middleware (e.g. Renderware)
- APIs (Application Programming Interface)
- Portability
- Game Licences
- Films
- Sports
- Characters etc.
- Prototyping/ Research and Development
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Development Team - Roles
- Director/ Project Leader
- Producer
- Game Designer/s
- Programmers
- Lead, Level, Gameplay, Physics, Interface, AI,
Data etc. - Artists/ Graphical Designers
- Lead, Level, Interface, Characters, Animation,
FMV (Full Motion Video), Objects etc. - Sound Engineers
- Lead, Sound Effects, Music, Voice Recordings etc.
- Quality Assurance
- Lead, Game Testing (Black Box)
- Manual Developer
- Writer, Editor, Designer, Translators
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Programming a Game
- PCs
- C
- C
- Java
- Assembler
- DirectX
- COM (Component Object Model)
- Flash/ Director and Java (Web/ Mobile Games)
- Emulators
- Consoles
- Exclusive SDKs (Software Development Kit)
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Quality Assurance
- Testing
- Does it need to be any good?
- Quality vs. Profit.
- Patches
- Why oh why?!
- Good use.
- Bad use.
- Console Ports
- Quality vs. Profit
- The Gold Master
- Mission Accomplished!
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Release Considerations
- Schedule/ Timing
- Film Premieres
- Sport Season
- Christmas and Other Holidays
- Shelf Span
- Location
- Society
- Censorship
- Languages (Speech and Text)
- Publicity/ Marketing
- Demos
- Trailers
- Exhibitions/ Expos
- Websites, Posters etc.
- Audience
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Questions?
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Next Lecture
The Social and Contextual Issues of Computer
Games Mitja Kostomaj Next week at 10am.
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