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LAFS SVI Level 1 - Introduction
This document is a slide presentation by David Mullich on the video game industry. It covers topics such as careers in game development, the roles of different professionals in the industry, communication skills needed for teamwork, and lessons learned about the business of games. The presentation provides an introduction to the industry for students and discusses the importance of skills like persistence, adaptability and professionalism for success.
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LAFS SVI Level 1 - Introduction
- 1. Level 1 David Mullich Surveyof the Videogame Industry The Los Angeles Film School
- 2. Who Are You? 1.What is your name? 2. Where are you from? 3. What is your favorite movie? 4. What is your favorite game? 5. What is your career goal?
- 3. Who Am I? My name: David Mullich dmullich@lafilm.edu @David_Mullich From: Los Angeles Favorite Movie: 2001 A Space Odyssey Favorite Game: Civilization Career Goal: Prepare you for a career in the game industry
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- 10. What Does AProgrammer Do?
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- 18. What Does AGame Designer Do?
- 19. What Did ILearn? You may love to play games, but a game developer loves making games. And that means you need skillz.
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- 24. What Did ILearn? Game development is a calling, because success does not come easily. Most games don’t break even.
- 25. Disney Licensor (Creates intellectualproperties) Licensee (Uses others intellectual properties)
- 26. Publisher Publishing Company (Markets/SellsGames) Development Studio (Creates Games)
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- 28. What Did ILearn? Anyone can have a good game idea. You need to also be able to persuade, plan, and prove you can deliver.
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- 31. What Did ILearn? The game industry is full of people even more talented than you, but that's one of the benefits.
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- 33. What Do GameArtists Do?
- 34. 3DO Director Lead Designer Lead Programmer Lead Artist Lead Audio Assistant Designer Writer LevelDesigners Engine Gameplay Artificial Intelligence User Interface Audio Multiplayer Tools Concept Textures Characters Environments Special Effects User Interface Cinematics Sound Effects Music Voice-Over
- 35. What Do AudioEngineers Do?
- 36. What Did ILearn? Game development is a team sport for geeks. You need to be able to communicate and work well in a team.
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- 39. What Does AGame Producer Do?
- 40. What Did ILearn? Game development is a business. A big business. Bigger than the movie business.
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- 42. What Did ILearn? Games can now be played anywhere, any time.
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- 44. What Did ILearn? Gamers are no longer just teenage boys. People of all ages and types now play games.
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- 46. What Did ILearn? You can learn just as much working on an advertgame for cats as working on the latest gazillion $$$ mega title.
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- 48. Game development isno longer just for geeks. Everyone now wants to get in on the action. What Did I Learn?
- 50. Survey of theVideogame Industry 1. Introduction, Professionalism, Industry 2. Psychology of Play 3. Game Design and Analysis 4. History of Computer and Mobile Games 5. History of Arcade and Console Games 6. Game Development and Testing 7. Game Publishing and Marketing 8. Games and Diversity 9. Games and Society 10. Managing Your Career
- 51. Survey of theVideogame Industry Grading 20%: 10 Labs 20%: 10 Homework Assignments 40%: 4 Tests 10%: Professionalism 10%: Attendance 2% Extra Credit for attending Transmedia Showcase
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- 53. Associates Program Introduction to Transmedia Design Surveyof the Videogame Industry Game Art 1 Level Design Quantitative Principles Game Audio Game Art 2 Game Programming 1 Creative Writing Interpersonal Communication Discrete Math Game Programming 2 Game Design 1 Psychology of Play Analog Game Theory Game Design 2 Game Assets Statistical Applications Concepting & Preproduction Game Production 1 Game Production 2 Game Production 3
- 54. Bachelors Program Art Creation forGames Aesthetics & Culture Storytelling for Games Contemporary Art Game Animation Transmedia Storytelling Artificial Intelligence for Games World Building Interactive Audio Mobile Game Development 1 Mobile Game Development 2 Professional Writing Emerging Game Platforms Marketing & Monetizaton Concepting & Preproduction 2 Final Project1 Final Project 2 Final Project 3
- 55. How to Succeedin LAFS Be your own Career Entrepreneur 3 Keys: Devotion Persistence Re-invention
- 56. This is aCollege Class Studying game development at college is still college study. Take Notes Study Read
- 57. Take Notes Having oneof these is a minimum requirement. At all times.
- 58. Study Review the LectureNotes Think Understand Reflect and Connect
- 59. Assignments If you can’tbe bothered to: be creative strive for originality even within established norms or constraints look beyond your initial idea actually enjoy and actively want to do the above Then get used to the phrase “Would you like fries with that?”
- 60. Assignments Word counts arethere for a reason. Use them wisely and avoid: Padding Going off topic Repeating yourself Padding by stating the obvious in a way that takes quite a lot of words but really isn’t saying anything new Repeating yourself but in a different way Padding, wadding, lining, extemporising, extraneous content or going on any other kind of Synonym Safari TM
- 61. Assignments “On Time” means5 minutes early. Unless the stakes are really high, in which case it means 24 hours early. Or a week early. Pssst....Sometimes developers make false internal deadlines to avoid calamity such as missed milestone payments. Maybe you could do the same if graduation is at stake?
- 62. Tests Study foryour tests! Refer to the slides. If you see on a slide, it will probably be on the test. If you don’t know the answer to a test question, guess! There are no points deducted for wrong answers on multiple-choice questions I will award some points for clever or knowledgeable answers on short-answer questions, even if they weren’t the answer I was looking for.
- 63. School Is YourJob Yes, these are important: Part-time work Family Friends Fun But don’t neglect your school work!
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- 66. Professional Gamer Team Newbee– China Total earnings: $1,005,661 each Valve’s International Dota 2 Competition Lee Jae Dong South Korea $519,086: Starcraft Danil Ishutin Ukraine $452,841: Dota Johnathan Wendel United States $454,919: FPS games Jang Min Chu South Korea $453,926: Starcraft
- 67. Gaming Professional John Romero Co-CreatorDOOM Id Software T.Q. Jefferson Vice President, Game Production Marvel Studios Kathy Vrabeck President Activision
- 68. You may loveto play games, but that doesn’t make you a game developer. I love to eat dinner, but that doesn’t make me a chef.
- 69. Do You HaveSkillz? Gamers are good at digital interfaces Gaming professionals are good at both digital and human interfaces
- 70. This means communication. Withgrammar‐Nazis. “...the different ways they done it like in the game play and the scenes ad the props” ...is not communicating and will incur their wrath. Game development is a team sport for Geeks.
- 71. All Business isCommunication Publisher to Customer Developer to Publisher Boss to Team Team to Boss Team Member to Team Member
- 72. Good Communication Precise Clear Brief
- 73. Written Communication Informal Communication Itscool to werk in gamez.u get too do anything u want & stuff Formal Communication It’s cool to work in games. You get to do anything you want and stuff.
- 74. Written Communication Capitalizethe beginning of sentences, names, game titles, and the word “I” Use proper spelling and punctuation Put a space between punctuation mark ending a sentence and the start of the next sentence Don’t use “u” for “you”, or “&” for “and” Don’t confuse “its” and “it’s”
- 75. Attention to detial Itmatters.
- 76. First Rule ofSuccess: Show Up DON’T BE TARDY But if you know you will be late, EMAIL ME! DON’T BE ABSENT But if you know you will be gone, EMAIL ME!
- 77. <<<Expand your horizons>>> Justbecause it doesn’t have the word GAMES in it, doesn’t mean it’s not going to inspire, inform or be useful to you every day for the rest of your creative life. This is especially true of non‐electronic information such as: Books Museums Art History
- 78. “All I wantto do is just pass this class” Classes are not kidney stones. If you think about them in these terms, maybe you’re on the wrong career path?
- 79. Impressions Your colleagues andfaculty will most likely be your doorway into the industry. How do you want them to think of you? Leave a professional and lasting impression. They’re your first referees, either on paper or via word of mouth.
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- 82. StjohnColon.com Global Games Market2012-2016 Source: The NPD Group Source: Newzoo, 2013 Global Games Market Report
- 83. StjohnColon.com Top Ten VideoGame Facts 10 Parents are present when games are purchased or rented 91 percent of the time.
- 84. StjohnColon.com 9 Eighty-eight percent ofall games sold in 2010 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10+" for Everyone 10+. www.esrb.org. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 85. StjohnColon.com Top Ten VideoGame Facts 8 Forty-four percent of gamers play games on their smartphone, and 33 percent play games on their wireless device.
- 86. StjohnColon.com 7 In 2011, 29percent of Americans over the age of 50 play video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 87. StjohnColon.com 6 Forty-eight percent ofall game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (36 percent) than boys age 18 or younger (17 percent). Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 88. StjohnColon.com 5 The average ageof the most frequent game purchaser is 35 years old. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 89. StjohnColon.com 4 The average gameplayer is 31 years old and has been playing games for 14 years. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 90. StjohnColon.com 3 Purchases of digitalcontent accounted for 53 percent of game sales in 2013. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 91. StjohnColon.com 2 Consumers spent $21.53billion on video games, hardware and accessories in 2013. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 92. StjohnColon.com 1 Fifty-nine percent ofAmericans play video games. Top Ten Video Game Facts
- 93. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 1. Virtual Reality Headsets Will Find Consumers
- 94. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 2. eSports Market May Reach 1B By Year’s End
- 95. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 3. Perpetual Downloadable Content
- 96. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 4. Microtransaction Spending Caps
- 97. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 5. Streaming For Both Distributors and Players
- 98. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 6. Indie Outliers Finding Success By Promoting ASAP
- 99. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 7. Mobile Games Using Messaging And Notifications
- 100. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 8. Wearable Devices Becoming More Viable For Games
- 101. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 9. India And China Are Huge Markets
- 102. 10 Trends AffectingGaming In 2017 10. Augmented Reality Finding Ways To Be Viable
- 103. StjohnColon.com Jobs, Jobs, Jobs As of 2010, there were about 118,386 direct and indirect U.S. workers in the game industry. The top 5 states employing workers in the game industry: 1. California (accounts for 41% of US game industry workers) 2. Texas 3. Washington 4. New York 5. Massachusetts
- 104. StjohnColon.com Money, Money, Money Average Salary (3 years or less experience): Programmers: $71,855 Producers: $59,079 Game Designers: $53,000 Artists and Animators: $50,000 Quality Assurance: $38,833 Rising costs of development: In 1990 it cost about $40,000 per game. In 2004 it cost about $10,000,000 per game. Grand Theft Auto V, released in 2013, cost about $266,000,000 to develop.
- 105. So You Wantto Work in the Video Game Industry (7:41)
- 106. Take-Away “I’m really goodat ideas. That’s what I want to do in the team; be the guy who has the ideas.” Join the line. At the back. Behind the guy who can draw; the girl who can code; and the ones who can write, plan, create, evaluate, debug, submit and deliver. They’ve got ideas, too.
- 107. 10 Misconceptions AboutWorking In The Videogame Industry 1. We don’t just play games all day long. 2. We aren’t all programmers. 3. “My neighbor’s kid plays a lot of videogames. Can he get a job like yours?” 4. The Tech Support misconception. 5. It’s not just having ideas.
- 108. 10 Misconceptions AboutWorking In The Videogame Industry 6. Videogame music is still real music. 7. We aren’t gaming savants. 8. Testing takes skill. 9. We get that you don’t play games. 10. It’s a real job for grownups. What Culture
- 109. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
- 110. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
- 111. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
- 112. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
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- 114. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
- 115. IGDA 2014 DeveloperSatisfaction Survey © 2014, International Game Developers Association
- 116. Remember, Video Game Developmentis a Calling
- 117. What Is AVideo Game? This is a Video Game (1:36)
Editor's Notes
- #80 JohnathanWendel (born February 26, 1981), also known by the pseudonymFatal1ty (pronounced Fatality), is a professional electronic sports player, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Jonathan is considered the world's first prominent and accomplished professional gamer.[1] He is also considered one of the best professional gamers in the world.Wendel started a business, Fatal1ty, Inc., selling his brand of gaming mouse pads, "FATpads". He later expanded this into other gaming equipment through a business partnership with Universal abit, Creative Labs and XFX to create motherboards, coolers, sound cards, video cards, computer mice, computer cases, headphones, power supplies, and even clothes bearing his moniker.[7]Wendel was the spokesman of the now defunct Championship Gaming Series and has temporarily put aside actively competing.[8]
- #81 Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967,[1] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.) is a director, designer, programmer, and developer in thevideo game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D,Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake. His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Software's lead programmer John D. Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first person shooter, or FPS, in the 1990s. He is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term "deathmatch".[2]Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信 Sakaguchi Hironobu?) (born November 25, 1962) is a Japanese game designer, game director, game producer, and former film director. He is world famous as the creator of the Final Fantasy series, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide. He left Square Enix and founded a studio called Mistwalker in 2004.Michael "Mike" Morhaime (born 1967) is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment (originally founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse), a video game developer located in Irvine, California, currently owned by Activision Blizzard.
- #83 3 keys of being a successful entrepreneur:Devotion: Devotion is a word usually reserved for spirituality or an athlete’s dedication. You need to be disciplined about what you do, devoted to the cause of making your career succeed.Persistence: Being persistent is a habit that will allow you to be one of the rare people not to rely on luck, but to create their own luck. Luck is opportunity X preparation.Reinvention: Re-invention results in new habits. Habits are learned behaviors that become the way you do things. Maintaining GOOD habits forces you to constantly try to adapt, change, watch for opportunity, watch your competition, and maybe most of all, watch yourself getting settled into doing things the same way just because you are comfortable doing that. Get used to getting OUTSIDE of your zone of comfort.
- #86 Think: Thinking allows beings to make sense of or model the world in different ways, and to represent or interpret it in ways that are significant to them, or which accord with their needs, attachments, objectives, plans, commitments, ends and desires.Understand: Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.Reflect and Connect: Arguably, the most important aspects of education is to provide students with knowledge that they can transfer in meaningful ways to other aspects of their present or future lives. For example, we do not teach history simply so students can pass a quiz, but so that they can reason better about the world around them.
- #104 He who has the gold makes the rules!