Greater Brisbane Chapter
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installing ..... 40 % setup: game development is a complex process - teams on any particular game can be from 20 - 60 plus ..... Tony Hawk Underground took a team of 50 people, one year whereas Splinter Cell 3 took two years and over 300 people! team size has increased dramatically in recent years as technology advancements occur, demand for higher quality graphics and more complex gameplay take more time and demand greater specialisation from team members
outsourcing companies are of interest for smaller companies competing with the big players
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The games development process goes through these main stages: Concept, Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production. concept an idea might be original, a sequel, or licensed [eg from a book or a film] games released week sept 25 2005
Source: Amazon.com Video Games Store april 2007 - game of the month pre-production concept document developed into design document in collaboration with programmers etc. detailed design document then gets developed into technical document which in turn gets the project methodolgy treatment by project manager and producer. concept art may be produced at this stage production collaborative team based waterfall - iterative methodolgies the endless hours of the sims online and developing rapid prototyping - that cloud game [interactive media @ usc] post-production QA devise test plans and game is debugged. gameplay and graphics tweaked game is marketted |
