As the game industry, the most promising industry in the creative industry, its development has exceeded everyone's expectation. With strong national policy support and rapid development of the game market, the online gaming revenue has exceeded the three traditional entertainment industries: movie box office, TV entertainment programs, and audiovisual products.
At the same time, the production level of online games in China is also constantly improved. Many high-level online games such as "perfect world" and "Fantasy westward journey" gradually regain the market share occupied by foreign online games. With the gradual maturity of Chinese online games, the Chinese online game market has a bright prospect, making many people who like games want to enter the game industry. However, for most people, this field is still unfamiliar and blank. How are these premium online games made? How can we become a good game practitioner? What are the current situation and prospects of the Chinese gaming market?
Reveal the full process of game production:
Simply put, game production is the whole process from game creativity to commercial products. In addition to market research in the early stage, the entire game production process is roughly divided into several stages: planning, art resource production, program development, game testing, and operation marketing.
I. Game planning stage:
Game planning is like a scriptwriter and a director who wants to define the composition of the game's world, specify the race, climate, and arrange where monsters are needed to make players feel exciting and fun, various weapons and equipment need to be designed to attract players. The professional lecture is about designing the background stories, world view, continental layout, rule gameplay, plot dialogs, game tasks, various numerical values, and so on.
Game planners are the soul of the game and very scarce talents in the game industry. Both the salary and career development prospects are very promising.
Ii. Art resource production stage:
The planning documents are divided into technical design documents, background art documents, and Business Plan documents. The background art document guides the production of art resources in the next stage, including original painting settings, model pasters, role animations, special effects, and sound effects.
1. Original Game Image settings:
The original game painting settings are an important part of the game, and they are also the most creative positions. In the game, all kinds of wild, imaginative figures, monster images, and scene design are from the original painting.
However, the original painting must take into account the game role and Scenario setting requirements in the game documentation and ensure the smooth production of 3D art designers.
2. Model Paster creation:
Based on the artistic and technical styles set for various original paintings, the 3D production technology is used to build the game world, including the role, item, and scenario, including the model creation and texture creation processes. Based on different game types, such as online games and the next generation, the production process and process of model textures are also different.
3. Game role Animation:
In the game, there are a wide variety of characters, monsters, and a variety of incredible animals, plants, as well as water flow, maging, swamp and other terrain, in order to make it more realistic and lifelike, game animation designers use 3D graphics software to give them realistic actions, so that people can live in the game world reasonably.
4. Game special effects:
You can see amazing visual effects when a game role is fighting, casting magic, and all kinds of killer techniques. This visual effect is the work of a special effect player. The special effects of the game teacher from the mirror design, slicing animation, special effect texture production, particle effect production to the later synthesis, the special effects of their own design ideas to produce special effects.
Iii. Program Development Stage
After the planning stage, technical design documents will be generated, which will be applied to program development. Program Development includes engine writing, script writing, and code testing.