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By: F Daniel

The Game development industry:

The game development industry thrives on the high demand across the entire globe. Starting from a child or a teenager till a young professional or a senior citizen, the games industry has allured and engaged all. The attraction is tremendous and the craze stupendous. It is noteworthy that the console games industry, the largest category in games, earned a whopping USD 24.9 billion in the year 2007 and is expected to reach USD 34.7 billion by 2012. It is a surprise to see that an industry, which targeted children few decades ago, has opened up to the entire demographic. It is growing in leaps and bounds and is expected to surprise even industry specialists.

The PwC reported that the video games industry is expected achieve a global sales of USD 68.3 billion by 2012. The online and wireless games will also reach new heights though PC games may face a lag behind.
With such promising numbers, the industry expects to cope well with the recession. It is sheer shocker that despite recession and consumers going frugal, the game industry is steadily reaching new heights. How incredible the demand must be that an industry thrives even during recession.

Game development process:

The word “game” sounds interesting. It instigates good thoughts and an immediate sense of connection. But, do we think about what goes behind the few minutes of relaxation that we get? It is sheer hard work and constant brainstorming by developers. The process is quite complicated and involves strategic thinking, collaboration as well as marketing.

Idea: The fun starts with ideating a game. It can be inspired from a popular character or it can be based on a particular situation like a war or treasure hunt.

Implementation: Next is implementation that is based on the financial capabilities of the game developing company. The name behind your game may not be your developer. Usually the company who funds a game has brains working behind it. The developers approach such publishers who fund the entire developmental process and distribute the same in lieu of the profits. There are other ways of funding like pitching the game, negotiation, alternative funding by giving away equity to investors, so on and so forth.

Designing: The story ad design of the game are two different aspects. Designing the game consists of detailing like camera works, the story, the controls, characters, their weapons and various other props required within the game. Each step is documented for further reference.

Programming: This is required to implement the design. The programmer refers to the designing documentation followed by a round of question and answers with the designing team. Once the idea and the design details are clarified, the process of programming begins.

Art: As soon as a game is ready, it requires styling. Visual impact is the most important part of the game. The colors, the detailing, the 3D or 2D requirements, animation, are all take care of by the art team.

Production: This team works on the schedule and budget. It is behind time estimation for each step of game development. Sound testing comes at the end of the production process. The ambiance is adjusted along with modulation in sound. This involves voiceovers, character dialogues, background music so on and so forth.

Game testing: This is the final over. Before the game is launched it is manually tested for bugs and various issues. The management takes the final decision of launching.

Some technologies used in game development:

Microsoft Visual Studio: This is used to develop games for Xbox or Windows.

XNA: Developed by Microsoft, this platform can be run on Windows as well as Xbox

CodeWarrior: This Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supports the development of extremely complex applications.

Unity 3D Indies: AN exciting engine that is been used by Cartoon Network, Lego and various game developers. This supports both Mac and Windows.

Unity 2.6: This is unique in the sense that it supports third party control like Perforce and Subversion.

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