The Pyjack's Den! The ME News Discussion Thread

Pre-Production, imo, consists of:

1. what is your target audience? Key gameplay mechanics?

Here, the target demographic tells the game designers how to mold the game system to fit the player audience. The major game play mechanic is what the designers bank on. This is the
area that players will enjoy themselves.... well makes sense to me.

2. Is there a market?

EA as the publisher won't divvy out money without a marketing test. Hence the ads and teasers. ME has a history but still...

3. Prototyping

Basic prototypes of game play features are created, tested, discarded or kept. prototypes answer questions, like:

a- are the chars appealing?
b- is a mechanic or level fun?
c- is one level worse than others?
d- which colour scheme / Ui work best?

4. Asset creation

Game assets like armour, weapons, treasures, buildings, animals, flora, terrain, etc. are created

5. Pipelines and the Team

A project has to have a boss, leaders and worker bees. Identify them and give them responsibilities. Task pipelines are there to keep everyone working productively and
avoid bottlenecks ( I put management decisions here too). So, I;m talking about : Producer, game designer, developer, artists, QA.

6. Project Timeline

Ah, that pesky timeline. Pesky or not, it hast to be set and everyone should be on board.