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Game Developing Tutorial: List of Topics

• What Does This Book Cover?
  • How To Make A Game
  • First Have A Plan
  • Organize Your Team Effectively
  • Game Development Is Software Development
  • Where To Turn For Outside Help
  • How To Ship A Game
  • Post-release
  • Success And The Long Race
• Why Make Games?
  • To Share A Dream
  • Games Teach
  • Game Genres Satisfy Different Appetites
  • Youth Making Games
  • On Money
  • Why Make Games?
• What Makes Game Development Hard?
  • The Importance Of Planning
  • Very Few Titles Are Profitable
  • What Are The Financial Expectations For Your Game?
  • Why Your Game Should Profit
  • Excellence In Spades
  • Game Making Is A Long Race Of Many Game Projects
  • A Brief History Of Software Development
  • Overly Long Game Projects Are Disastrous
  • Our Project Plan Behind Starfleet Command
  • Constraints Give Much Needed Focus
  • On Bugs Shipped In Starfleet Command
  • Well-met Goals Enable Future Successes
  • Strong Game Developers Have Strong Foundations
  • The Tension Between Preproduction And Production
  • The Power Of The Console
  • Why Aren’t All Publishers Using Preproduction?
  • The Gravitational Pull Of Feature Creep
  • Task Visibility For Team Motivation And For Progress Tracking
  • A Pitfall Of Success—fan-requested Features And Changes
  • The Relentless Pace Of Technology
  • The Art Of War And Games
• Game Project Survival Test
  • The Game Project Survival Test
• What Is A Game Made Of?
  • The Extended Development Team
  • Game Production Parts
  • Quality Assurance Parts
  • Business Parts
  • Post Release Parts
• Business Context First
  • The Project Triangle
  • Questions For You To Answer
  • Walkaway
• Key Design Elements
  • Business Context Shapes Design, Or Does Design Shape The
    Business Context?
  • Reconcile The Business Context And Game Idea Early
  • Methods And The Unified Development Process
  • Case Studies
  • Some Straight Questions To Ask Yourself
  • Now What?
• Game Design Document
  • What Is A Game Design Document And What Does It Do?
  • What About The Proposal Document?
  • When Do You Write The Game Designdocument?
  • What Should Go Into A Game Design Document?
  • Stepping Back A Bit
• The Technical Design Document
  • Object-oriented Design
  • Purpose Of The Technical Design Document
  • What Goes Into The Technical Design Document?
• The Project Plan
  • What Is The Project Plan?
  • How Do We Create The Project Plan?
  • The Non-zero Chance Of Delivery
• Task Tracking
  • Production Begins—now What?
  • Task Visibility
  • The Wall
  • Journals
  • Walk Around
  • Milestone Orientation Meetings
  • Maintain The Gantt Chart
  • Update The Risks Chart
• Outsourcing Strategies
  • Why Outsource?
  • When To Think About Outsourcing
  • What To Outsource
• Shipping Your Game
  • Shipping Is A Phase
  • How Do You Ship A Great Game?
  • Alpha—feature Complete
  • Testing Plan
  • Final Candidate Cycle
  • Transition, Ship, And Point Release
• The Design Document
  • What Does The Game Design Document Do?
  • The Game Design Document As A Process
  • On Fulfilled Expectations
• Unified Modeling Language Survival Guide
  • Use Cases Deliver Requirements
  • Class Diagrams Are The Keystone Of Design
  • Detailed Syntax Of The Class Diagram
  • Forward And Reverse Engineering Of The Class Diagram
  • The Other Seven Diagrams Of Uml
• Technical Design
  • Nominate Functional Leads
  • Synthesize Use Cases And Nonvisible Requirements
  • The Quality Assurance Plan
• Time Estimates
  • Two Ways To Estimate A Task
  • Making The Plan
• Putting It All Together Into A Plan
  • Let’s Create A Schedule For Fishfood!
• Measuring Progress
  • On Leadership
  • Task Tracking
• Controlling Feature Creep
  • Great Games Satisfy Player Expectations
• Alpha, Beta, Go Final!
  • The Test Of Well-laid Plans
• Point Releases Vs. Patches
  • The Publisher-developer Post-release Relationship
  • Tools For Creating Patches
  • User Extensibility—the Magical Patch
• Garage Development Spans The Internet
  • Silver Creek Entertainment
• Getting A Job In The Game Industry
  • Who Is Trying To Get Into Games?
  • You Want Me To Do What? Oh, I Would Rather Do This
  • Hours Of The Game Industry
  • You Did Not Scare Me—i Love Games And I Want In!
  • How To Get A Job As A Programmer
  • Artists And Their Portfolios
  • How Do I Become A Tester?
  • I Have A Great Idea For A Game—i Want To Be A Designer!
  • So You Want To Be A Producer
  • Go To Gdc—free!
  • What About Those Recruiters?
  • Resumes, Demo Reels, And The Interview
• Starting A Game Development Company
  • Find A Path
  • I Have A Plan; Now How Do I Get Started?
  • Rounding Out Your Development Team
  • Where To Locate Your Game Company
  • Lawyer And Accountant
  • Deciding On The Type Of Company
  • Insurance
  • Employee Compensation Programs
  • Trademarks And Urls
  • War Chests
• Outsourcing Music
  • Music For Games
  • How Do You Break Down The Music Bid?
• Outsourcing Voice
  • Interview With Chris Borders
  • Voice-over Script For The Orc Peon From Warcraft Iii
• Outsourcing Sound Effects
  • Interview With Adam Levenson
• Outsourcing Writing
  • Computer Game Writing
• Outsourcing Cinematics And Models
  • Interview With Mark Gambiano
• Outsourcing Motion Capture And Animation
  • Animation In Games
• Fan-generated Material
  • Game Development With Your Fans