27. Computer Games

This video shows how computer games are made. Core team talks about the game and then make production planning which assigns that who do what and when. They break down game into on paper colored code the components. Artists sketches characters and backgrounds onto paper. Graphic artists recreate story board in 3 dimension on the computer. They add shading,texture, depth and movements for make it more real. They defined all movements off characters. For ex; for the main character there is about 700 movements. To giving depth to backgrounds they use virtual lighting. Characters are made in high resolution but the movements of them are made in low resolution because computer can not process high resolution character quickly enough. So, they sometimes create every characters two times: high solutioned and low solutioned. They use technique merchant capture which makes the game more real. The interesting part of this video is this part. Animation makers do the same actions have a video record and then in computer environment with using animation software they reproduces these movements. On the other side computer programmers prepare the video menu and write code for the game. Also in the studio they make the sounds of the actions.After everything is done they check the game by playing with it.