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TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTATION

ON

GAME DEVELOPMENT

By:

Biswa bhushan dash A.Abhilash

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

MEDHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING


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ABSTRACT

The game is a type of software which

installed in the pc .and used to provide a

100% satisfication as well as full

entertainment to the user. The gamedevelopment is a type of software

development process through which the

video games are produced.

Development is undertaken by a game

developer, which may range from a single

person to a large business and normally

funded by a publisher. Games are developedas a creative outlet and to generate profit.

Well-made games bring profit more readily.

However, it is important to estimate game's

financial requirements, such as development

costs of individual features .

The first games created had littleentertainment value, and their development

focus was separate from user experiencein

fact, these games required mainframecomputers to play them. OXO, written by

Alexander S. Douglas in 1952, was the first

computer game to use a digital display.

Game development is generally done byGame industry which requires innovations,as publisher cannot profit from constant

release of sequels and imitations. The

publisher, producer, development team i.ethe artist, programmer, designer, sound

engineer , tester plays an vital role in

developing a game.

The game development process is

categorized into three forms they are:

1.pre production.

2. production

3. post production.

These production process gives the quality

assurance to the product(game). Some of

the game industries are EA, UBISOFT,zynga etc. which are producing quality

games.

CONTENTS:

1. Overview of game.2. Introduction to game development

i) agile development

ii) software development

methodology

3. History of game development4. Roles5. Development process6. Conclusion7. References

Overview of game:

The game is a type of software

which installed in the pc and used

to provide a 100% satisfaction as

well as full entertainment to the

user.Games are developed as a creativeoutlet and to generate profit. Well-made games bring profit more

readily. However, it is important toestimate game's financial

requirements, such as development

costs of individual features. Often

game projects made with "heart and

soul" turn no profit.

Introduction

Game development is the software

developmentprocess by which avideo game is

produced.Development is undertaken by agame

developer, which may range from a single

person to a large business. Development is

normally funded by a publisher
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Games are developed as a creative outlet and to

generate profit]. Well-made games bring profit

more readily. However, it is important to

estimate game's financial requirements, such as

development costs of individual features.

Developers, such asBioWare,BlizzardEntertainment,Valve Corporationandid

Softwareare famous for releasing quality games

on completion, rather than being constrained by

financial limitations. Game development,

production, or design is a process that starts

from anidea or concept .

Game development is undertaken by agame

developerranging from an individual to a

large company. There can be independent or

publisher-owned studios. Independent

developers rely on financial support from agame publishers. They usually have to develop a

game from concept to prototype without external

funding. The formal game proposal is then

submitted to publishers, who may finance the

game development from several months to

years..

History

The history of game development begins with

the creation of thefirst video games, althoughwhich video game is the first depends on the

definition ofvideo game.

The first games created had little entertainment

value, and their development focus was separate

from user experiencein fact, these games

required mainframe computers to play them.

OXO, written byAlexander S. Douglasin 1952,

was the first computer game to use a digital

display.

In 1958, a game calledTennis for Two,which displayed its output on anoscilloscope, was made byWilly

Higinbotham, a physicist working at the

Brookhaven National Laboratory.

In 1961, a mainframe computer game called

Spacewar!was created by a group of

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

students led bySteve Russell.

Roles

Development is overseen by internal andexternal producers. The producer working

for the developer is known as the internal

producerand manages the developmentteam, schedules, reports progress, hires and

assigns staff, and so on. The producer

working for the publisher is known as the

external producerand oversees developerprogress and budget.

Developers can range in size from small

groups making casual games to housinghundreds of employees and producing

several large titles. Companies divide theirsubtasks of game's development. Individual

job titles may vary, however roles are the

same within the industry. The development

team consists of several members they are:

1. Designer: A game designer is aperson who designsgameplay,conceiving and designing the rules

and structure of agame.2. Artist : A game artist is avisual

artistwho creates video game art .

3. Programmer: A game programmeris asoftware engineerwho primarilydevelops video games or related

software (such asgame development

tools). The game'scodebase

development is handled byprogrammers.

4. Level designer : A level designer isa person who createslevels,challenges or missions forcomputerand/or video games using a specific

set ofprograms.

5. Sound engineer : Sound engineersare technical professionals

responsible forsound effectsand

sound positioning
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6. Tester : Thequality assuranceiscarried out by game testers. A gametester analyzesvideo gamesto

documentsoftware defectsas part of

aquality control.

Development Process :

Game development is a software

development process, as a videogame is software with art, audio, and

gameplay .

This is of three types:

1. Preproduction : Pre-production ordesign phase. is a planning phase ofthe project focused on idea and

concept development andproduction of initial design

documents. The goal of concept

development is to produce clear

and easy to understanddocumentation which describes all

the tasks, schedules and estimates

for the development team.2. Production: Production is the main

stage of development, when assetsandsource codefor the game are

produced.Mainstream production isusually defined as the period of time

when the project is fully staffed.

Programmers write newsourcecode, artists develop game assets,

such as,spritesor3D models.

Sound engineers develop soundeffects and composers develop

music for the game.Level designers

create levels, and writers writedialogue for cutscenes andNPCs

Game designers continue to developthe game's design throughout

production.

3. Post production : After the gamegoes goldand ships, some

developers will give team members

comp time (perhaps up to a week or

two) to compensate for the overtimeput in to complete the game, though

this compensation is not standard.

Future scenario :

The game approach has since

been refined and expanded toinclude new versions. Each

version of the game takes several

years to develop and test, and is

based on extensive analysis of thecontemporary local issues. .

The final product, while presented

in a simple game format, aims toreflect contemporary local issues

and have a harmonic with the

real-world situations.

Conclusion :

Game development is generally doneby Game industry which requires

innovations, as publisher cannot profit

from constant release of sequels and

imitations. The publisher, producer,development team i.e the artist,

programmer, designer, sound engineer ,

tester plays an vital role in developing a

game.

These production process gives thequality assurance to the product(game).

Some of the game industries are EA,

UBISOFT, zynga etc. which are

producing quality games.

The development process provides thequality assurance of game trough

software engineering methodology.

References:

Google search

Gamesutra.com

Reading journals.
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