Game Development and Production

Erik Bethke

432 pages, parution le 12/05/2003

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Résumé

Writing comprehensive design documents, accurately estimating tasks and schedules, setting up a comprehensive QA plan-these are all important aspects of the game development process that are often underplanned. Game company executive Erik Bethke provides a guidebook that discusses these issues, along with detailed coverage of development methods and project management techniques, all from the perspective of someone who has learned the hard way and is still learning.

Find out about every aspect of game development and production from concept on a napkin, through development, release, and beyond into patches and point-releases.
Understand the challenges that game developers face in producing successful game titles.
Learn how to define the key elements and requirements of a game.
Discover how to create and maintain schedules using Gantt charts and resource usage charts.
Learn how to use Unified Modeling Language to improve the efficiency of your game development process.
Develop an understanding of how intimately your business parameters affect your game designs.
Explore strategies for landing a job in the game industry.
Find out about outsourcing different parts of game production, such as motion capture, music, voice, and sound effects.

On the CD:
The companion CD contains three tools that are useful in the production and development of your games: Perforce, an asset and source code control system; Daily Journal, a simple task tracking applet developed and used at Taldren; and Describe, a UML code generation tool.

Contents

Introduction to Game Development

What Does This Book Cover?
Why Make Games?
What Makes Game Development Hard?
Game Project Survival Test

How to Make a Game?

What Is a Game Made Of?
Business Context First
Key Design Elements
Game Design Document
The Technical Design Document
The Project Plan
Task Tracking
Outsourcing Strategies
Shipping Your Game

Game Development

The Vision Document
Requirements Gathering
The Design Document
Unified Modeling Language Survival Guide
Technical Design
Time Estimates
Putting It All Together into a Plan
Measuring Progress
Controlling Feature Creep
Alpha, Beta, Go Final!
Point Releases vs. Patches
Garage Development Spans the Internet

Game Development Resource Guide

Getting a Job in The Game Industry
Starting a Game Development Company
Outsourcing Music
Outsourcing Voice
Outsourcing Sound Effects
Outsourcing Writing
Outsourcing Cinematics and Models
Outsourcing Motion Capture and Animation
Fan-Generated Material

Appendices
Index

L'auteur - Erik Bethke

Erik Bethke is the CEO of Taldren, where he holds the position of executive producer and lead designer on Taldren's Starfleet Command series published by Interplay and Activision, as well as the upcoming title Black9 published by Majesco. Bethke has held a variety of positions in the game industry including senior group producer at Interplay. He has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and has worked in the Space Sciences division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wordware Publishing, Inc
Auteur(s)	Erik Bethke
Parution	12/05/2003
Nb. de pages	432
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	620g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781556229510
ISBN13	978-1-55622-951-0