Game Industry and The Future of Game Pertemuan 12

Matakuliah : T0944-Game Design and ProgrammingTahun : 2010

Company Related to Game DevelopmentCompany Related to Game Development• Game Developer

– Software developer that creates video games.– Game Developers:

• Game Publisher– Company that publishes video game.– Responsible for the manufacturing, marketing, including market research and all

aspect of advertising, and distributing the video game.– Game Publishers: Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony

Computer Entertainment, Microsoft, Konami.• Studios

– Movie Studio– Animation Studio– 2D Art Studio– 3D Art Studio– Recording Studio– Sound Effect Studio

• Game Education

Profession/Career Related to Game Related to Game DevelopmentDevelopment

• Game Designer– Is a person who design game-play, conceiving and designing the rules

and structures of a game.– Equivalent to screenwriter

• Game Programmer– Is a software engineer who primarily develops video games or related

software such as game development tools.– Disciplines: Physic, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Sound, Game-play,

User Interface, Input, Network, Game Tools, Porting, Technology, Generalist, and Lead Game Programmer

• Game Producer• Visual Artist

– 3D Artist– 2D Artist

• Sound Effect and Music Artist

The Future of Game • Gaming Hardware

– Location-Based Entertainment

• Video Arcades• Group Ride Simulators• Individual Networked Simulators

– Home Video Game Consoled

• Consoles get more PC-Like• The relationship of consoles to other Media Players.• Add-on Devices• HDTV

The Future of Game • Gaming Hardware

– Personal Computer

• Add-on Devices– Handheld Game Machines, PDAs, and Telephones– Virtual Reality

The Future of Game Programming • Scene Representation

– Mathematical Representation– Procedural Scene Representation– Real-Time Ray Tracing

• Animation– Facial Animation and Speech Generation– Inverse Kinematics– True Locomotion

• Natural Language Processing– Language Recognition– Language Generation

The Future of Game • Broadband Networking

– Electronic Distribution– High-Speed Online Gaming

• Distance Future– Automated Programming