Are you ready to produce?

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Are you ready to produce?
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History

• Corporations
• 1889 Playing cards, 1907 Nintendo originally a
  playing card company!
• 1891 Phillips Netherlands
• 1918 Matsushita (panasonic)
• 1945 Mattel (Matson / Elliot)
• 1947 Sony

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History (People)

• '58 Willy Higginbothan (Brookhaven) invents pong
  on an oscilloscope
• '61 Steve Russell (MIT) creates Spacewar (like
  asteroids)
• '67-'68 chase game, pong, light sensitive gun

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History

• 1976 Exidy releases Death Race first violent
  video game. Public outcry causes game to be
  pulled.
• Space invaders displays highest score ? goal
• '79 Atari release Lunar Lander, then Asteroids! ?
  Initials and high score
• '80 Pacman! Big Hit
• '80 Defender side scroller, minimap. Hit
• '85 Tetris (Alex Pajitnow)

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Genres

• Action
• FPS
• Hack/Slash
• Maze (pacman)
• Platform (mario)
• Shmup
• Tactical shooters

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Adventure

• Text adventures
• Myst
• Action/Adventure
• Prince of Persia
• Stealth games
• ?

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Sim

• SimCity
• Sims

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Role Playing

• Final Fantasy
• Massively Multiplayer online Role Playing Games

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Strategy

• 4x (Explore, Expand, Expoit, Exterminate) -
  Civilization
• RTS
• Turn based Strategy (TBS)

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Vehicle Sim

• Flight Sim
• Racing Games
• Space flight sim
• Train sim
• Vehicle combar

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Music

• Dance Dance Revolution
• Guitar Hero
• Rockband (9/9/09)

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Other

• Puzzle
• Sports
• Casual
• Advergames
• Educational Games
• Serious Games

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Game Programming

• Loop
• Check input
• Run Physics
• Run AI

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Game Architecture

• Graphics
• IO
• Physics
• AI
• Networking
• State

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Game Architecture

• The game itself
• Assets
• Gameplay testing

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History

• 1994 ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board
• '94 Sony Playstation
• '95 Nintendo N64, '96 in US
• 2000 ps2, xbox