How to create a popular game? What are the key factors of success? In this presentation, we'll analyze the main phases of game development process.

1. Phases of Game Development

2. How to build an efficient game development
process? Let’s analyze the main phases of it.

3. BRAINSTORM

4. Answer the following questions before
starting the development:
Who is the perfect player for you?
How can this game surprise users?
Why should user want to interact with the
game?
Will he pay for it?

5. CONCEPT

6. MECHANICS
Game Concept = Essential Outline
SETTING (STORY &
AESTHETICS)
INTERACTION
TECHNOLOGY

7. PROOF OF
THE CONCEPT

8. Will the gameplay be engaging enough?
Are the controls intuitive?
Can the game be transferred to a paper prototype?
Will target audience like the setting of the game?

9. GDD
(GAME DESIGN DOCUMENT)

10. The purpose of GDD is
TO DESCRIBE ALL ASPECTS OF A GAME
(TARGET AUDIENCE, GAMEPLAY,
GRAPHICS, CHARACTERS, LEVELS, ETC.)

11. PROTOTYPE

12. The mission is
TO CREATE PLAYABLE MODELS FOR ALL
CHOSEN PLATFORMS

13. DESIGN

14. CREATING A “SILHOUETTE OF A GAME”

15. DEVELOPMENT

16. SYSTEM ARCHITECTS TAKE CARE ABOUT
AN ARCHITECTURAL PART

17. TESTING

18. The game is distributed to a limited
number of potential players in order to
receive feedback about the gameplay and
possible improvements
ALPHA TESTING
BETA TESTING
Public betas are effective because
thousands of fans may find bugs that the
developer's testers did not

19. RELEASE

20. Share news about the game
SHOWTIME
Links in social networks
Promote through the articles
Game reviews
Send to app stores

21. SUPPORT

22. This is a long way to go, and it's essential to find the
right team which will provide professional game
development and support services for your project.

23. ANY QUESTIONS?
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