Pre-Production

Finance $$$

For a game to be made it will need financing as there is a lot of people and equipment that will be needed and that isn’t free but you will have a budget to work off of and it is vital that you don’t go over that budget else you could lose a lot of time and money into the production of the game also you need to make that money back plus profit which can be quick or take a while.

The equipment and software costs money to keep it all up to date and keep the equipment up to standards also you might have to hire out equipment if you don’t have it, also you’ll need people working on that game which those people will need to be paid else they’ll go somewhere else.

If you want to base a game from a real city or place you’re going to want an accurate drawing of it so you will also need to pay for transport as well to get your artist to this place.

Time

When working on a project such as a game you will need a deadline as you don’t want to spend forever making it because you need to make money on it and also the person financing the game wants to get their money back from the game so a reasonable deadline will need to be set.

Personnel

If you making a game you’re going to need a crew for lighting with the green screen or voice actors but what’s mainly needed is graphics designers and coders to put the basics of the game together as sound will be added later.

Facilities

To make a good game you will need access to facilities such as a sound room so that you can record high quality sounds and a green screen room for those cut scenes and the trailers that need it which will also cost money so you will need to work around that to keep up with your deadline.

 

Contributors

When developing a game people will help fund it with the expectation of getting their money back as well as profit so they are going to want to see prototypes of the project and also they will want a deadline as they don’t want to be waiting forever to get their money back but they do this with the expectation of making some profit on the game as well.

Locations

When making a game you may want to base it off of real locations which means you will need to visit the area that you’re basing the game off of to have a good idea of what building would go where etc.

The game watch dogs is based in Chicago were you can free roam around the city so the artists would have been sent to Chicago to have a look around and sketch what they see so that they can recreate it in the game that they are helping develop pictures of this are below.

 

Codes of practice and regulations

You need to stay within the law when doing most things even a game for stuff like copyright, age restrictions also health and safety, also you will need insurance in case any of your employees are injured at work or if someone in the public trips over a tripod you have set up while taking pictures for a game you are developing, or if a company thinks you are copying them and they try to sue you are covered from that.