Interactive Gameplay Design Games Development Mario Michaelides Lecture 7 (10am), Week 5 -...

Interactive Gameplay Design

Games Development

Mario MichaelidesLecture 7 (10am), Week 5 - 03/11/2005

Games Development


Games Development


• The Games Design Document

• The Technical Design Document

• Development Team

• Publisher

• Plan (and Money)!

What do we need?


Games Development


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.


Games Development


Considerations• Planning/ Schedule and Budget

• Saving Time and Money - Existing Component Libraries– Graphics– Sounds– Game Engines (e.g. Goldeneye 007 > Perfect Dark, Quake 2 > Half Life)– Middleware (e.g. Renderware)– API’s (Application Programming Interface)

• Portability

• Game Licences– Films– Sports– Characters etc.

• Prototyping/ Research and Development


Games Development


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


Games Development


Programming a Game

• PC’s– C– C++– Java– Assembler– DirectX– COM (Component Object Model)– Flash/ Director and Java (Web/ Mobile Games)– Emulators

• Consoles– Exclusive SDK’s (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


Games Development


Questions?


Games Development


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