Game Development Stack Exchange
Game Development Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [game-industry]

Topics about the professional game development industry itself, as opposed to topics that come up in the process of developing games.

142 questions
64
votes
4 answers

What are the typical day-to-day tasks of an entry level games programmer?

What I would like to know is: What are the daily duties of a graduate programmer in the games industry workplace? Is it mostly coding, analysing, designing, or what? Thank you. P.S. I am in my second year of University at the moment and am working…
kymully
  • 905
  • 1
  • 7
  • 10
62
votes
7 answers

Do programmers in the industry get to participate in the game design process?

My main goal is to create games which is why I'm planning on studying IT so I can later on be a game developer/programmer. My question is: does a game programmer get involved in the game designing process or is that only the game designer's job? Is…
Tim
  • 731
  • 1
  • 5
  • 7
47
votes
4 answers

How were cartridge-based games programmed?

I'm thinking of like the SNES, N64, Atari... even the DS today, I suppose. SNES games did not usually take up more than 4 MB of space, and N64 games were usually 32 to 64 MB worth of data. These days, you can barely compile a "hello world!" program…
Corey
  • 101
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
45
votes
7 answers

How were 8-bit and 16-bit games developed?

We have a lot of information on the internet out there on plenty of engines, SDKs, fancy IDEs, etc. But how did people manage to develop games in the past? Are there 'famous' tools? What was the most used programming language? how were they deployed…
mati
  • 353
  • 4
  • 8
  • 11
14
votes
5 answers

What is the difference between a game director and game producer?

I was browsing through the list of games Hironobu Sakaguchi has worked on and noticed that he is credited differently from game to game. Just to cite a few games from that list, he is credited as: Director in Final Fantasy 1 to 5, The Last…
David Gouveia
  • 24,875
  • 5
  • 84
  • 124
13
votes
4 answers

How to make money from creating a game for Windows?

I'm going to create a game. Well, a set of games, but they will accrue little by little. So, at the beginning there will be one game. The game will be written in C# with WPF and WCF techs, including server-side game processing, statistics and so…
AgentFire
  • 337
  • 2
  • 14
11
votes
8 answers

Should I finish high school or teach myself?

I want to become a game developer, I am an A student in 11th grade and feel like I am wasting my time in High School. I'm thinking of switching to homeschooling so that I have more time to focus on learning game development on my own while finishing…
dandami
  • 137
  • 3
11
votes
3 answers

Is Gresham's Law relevant for modern online games that allow the use of real money as additional currency?

More and more online games are planning to allow the use of real money to purchase ingame items in addition to the standard ingame currency. Diablo III for example, which will be released next year, will feature a gold-auction house (only ingame…
Demento
  • 211
  • 1
  • 6
8
votes
3 answers

Is there a centralized database of game names and IDs?

Given two games with very similar names: Alien Shooter II - Vengeance Alien Shooter: Vengeance Is there some place that I can go to get an ID or the 'canonical' name for these games? I suspect that they are the same game, but it's very hard to say…
jcollum
  • 183
  • 1
  • 4
7
votes
2 answers

What are the typical day-to-day tasks of a games writer?

I am interested in plot writing for games, and wondered first of all: Is this available as an entry-level position, or is it accessed through other avenues (even external to games development) And secondly, what are the daily tasks of a games…
kymully
  • 905
  • 1
  • 7
  • 10
7
votes
1 answer

So I have this idea for a videogame. How do I make sure it gets heard?

I was wondering how I could get a developer to hear about my idea. I don't really care if my idea gets "stolen", I only want it to be heard. So do you know how I could do this, or am I just being stupid? Again, I only want to know what the developer…
Brian
  • 73
  • 2
6
votes
1 answer

Is the corporate video game development industry habitable?

After a bit of research, I realized that almost every article about video game development portrays the industry in a terrible light. In these articles, companies abuse workers with unpaid overtime. Developers are left out to dry when studios fall.…
Sparkz63
  • 303
  • 1
  • 11
6
votes
4 answers

Will we see a trend of stereoscopic 3D games coming up in the near future?

I've noticed that the trend of movies is diving into the world of movies with 3-dimensional camera.For me it provoked a thought as if it was the same feeling people got when they saw a colour movie for the first time, like in the transition from…
Vishnu
  • 1,877
  • 4
  • 17
  • 26
6
votes
3 answers

Is game development Subcontracted?

I was having a conversation with someone who believed that components of a games code where subcontracted out to programmers in different countries where it would be cheaper, then assembled by the local company. I understand that people often use…
Darv
  • 61
  • 2
5
votes
2 answers

What are some valuable conferences for game developers?

Lately I was thinking of visiting a Game Developer Conference and so I search the Internet, but I didn't find a thorough list of available Conferences. Now I know some of them, like the GDC in San Francisco but I was wondering, what other Game…
Syjin
  • 111
  • 4
1
2 3