The Production Pipeline Tasks Assest List Concept Art

The Production Pipeline

Tasks • • Assest List Concept Art Production Schedule Mood board Games Design Document Previsualisation Research

• Research • Brainstorm • Pitch Prelim Idea The preliminary stage is the first stage in preproduction. This is the researching and brainstorming phase of pre-production; we use the preliminary stage to get a base idea of the game we are making, get ideas for the world and story of the game and weather the game is going to be linear or open world, usually we brainstorm using a mind map or a flowchart. We also use this stage so we can pitch the idea to a developer and get funding to make the game.

• Storyboards • Moodboard • Concept • Blocking out • Animatic • Stock assets Previs • Previsulisation is an important part of the pre-production phase because it visualizes the ideas, we have for the game through various concept sketches produced through various mood boards giving us an idea of how the sketches should be to convey the idea we have for the game. From this we can develop a story board to visualize the important parts of the story we want in the game, also we can start to block out the game from here or make an animatic both can be done with stock assets to help guide the people who will be modelling or animating the game. Because of this, it guides the direction of the game and plans out how the game should look or give an idea of how the game should look.

• Asset List • Timing • Budget Production Schedule You set up a production schedule to set up a timeline of how the game will be made. This includes making things like an asset list and planning job tasks so you can work out exactly how long your product should make. This is where you assign tasks around their importance. From this you can work out approximate budgeting to see what you can afford to make/how much you'd need to make your product and/or cut things that don’t fit. This is important because it helps solidify your product. Working these things out gives you a solid plan and direction; it makes sure you're doing what you need and when and that you have enough money to do so. Of course it's something that can be reworked further down the line, but having it initially gives you something to go off. Without it production would be a mess, planning schedule and budget gives you a good foundation to start with.

Production • Asset dev • Testing • Marketing

Asset dev Once in production, you need to actually create the components of your product. This includes the art, programming, animation, games design, filming etc. It's basically just making and checking off everything you planned to do in preproduction.

QA Testing Game testing is a software testing process for quality control over the video game, once a playable demo of the game has been created there are game testers who test the game and check for any game defects in the game like bugs. After testing the game the problems would be reported back to the game developer and then he would fix these problems.

Marketing and Promotion Once the game is announced they can start to promote the game by advertising it to people, giving them a date of when the game should be released by and what it is about, they also can promote the game by sponsoring streamers that will reach the target audience. Marketing by going to events to show off their game to let the public play the game.

Postproduction

Extra Promotion Doing interviews and having events will give the game more promotion and give information about the game, with this information it might get more peoples interest in the game.

Game Improvements Once the game is done there will still be bugs that need to be fixed. There will also be patches, maintenance and optimisation to improve game quality. Without this the game will not stay up to date and be the highest quality it can be which could result in bad reviews/complaints which hurts the games/companys reputation.

Localization Changing the language and game content to suit a certain country, without this you wouldn’t be able to release in certain areas which means less sales.

PEGI Age rating to show what games are suitable for what age/audience. It makes sure games are appropriate so people know what they're getting. This means they'll be less shocked by things that might offend so it doesn’t hurt game reputation. Without this it could cause bad press lessening sales.

DLC Additional content to the game to get more money to further produce more content for the game or make another game within the universe of the first one. Additional content could also give more story to the game as well as the lore of the game to flesh out the lore of the game.

Alpha • The alpha of a game is when the game is in preproduction leaning into production. It’s the blocking out of a game, where it's sort of working, just so you know what you want to produce. It's mostly a part of previs.

Beta The beta is the second test phase, this is when the game is almost finished and needs to be tested before the quality reaches the standards needed for release, a beta test is used to find out the quality of their product from a users point of view to see if they need to change anything in the game to suit all viewers.

Master • The completed version of the game with fixes from the alpha and beta test builds • Submitted to various platforms for certification

Certification This is the final stage where a game gets accepted by different game stores e. g. steam, xbox etc.