As games are made

As games are made

Games for the computer appeared in generation more half a century ago. It were simple playings table tennis on the black screen. Today games attract millions of people with a bright gameplay and saturated computer graphics.

Instruction

1. Everything began in 1952. The student invented a primitive game in "tic-tac-toe" on the lamp computer. It was the first computer game with graphics.

2. The concept of a game is at the head of a corner. The meeting behind a meeting "the cogitative headquarters" of a command makes the script, thinks over events and characters of a new game.

3. The computer game is broken into separate episodes which number and fix on a board. Further this board plays a role of the main center of production. In the same time the department of work with graphic animation creates models in three-dimensional graphics. At the same time the storyboard is also observed.

4. The appearance of characters and their movement - as key, defining game process (moves hands and legs, taking of objects and artifacts), and additional is important for further commercial success of a game (a mimicry, gestures). Animators are engaged in it too.

5. "Skeleton" of the character which is imposed over its appearance developed by designers is created. Carefully all changes of a skeleton (future movements) are perfected according to the script. The median number of movements of the main character can make 700 (and it is not a limit). Success is accompanied by hundreds and thousands of experiments.

6. On animators also the problem of creation of a background of a game lays down. The cities, villages, the ships and deserts are created by artists and specialists of computer graphics. For realness the movement of space, wind, snow, shadows is added.

7. Programmers develop the menu of a game and artificial intelligence. Thousands of code lines influence decision-making of the characters managed by the computer. At sound studio, voices of actors are recorded. Then the sound producer with a command the equipment mixs them, imposing on music.

8. The final stage of development of a game is the testing which is taking place in two stages: alpha (developers) and beta (independent gamers). Upon completion of testing a game enters the market.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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