Game development and production

itable attitudes, 18-19
UnrealScript, 251
use case, 84
use case diagram, 227-228, 238
creating, 142-143
examples, 219-220
using to create technical design document, 247
use cases examples, 82-84
Diablo, 87-90
Gran Turismo 3, 90-93
Pac-Man, 85-87
Starfleet Command 3, 137
user extensibility, 305
user interface,
in-game, 108
programmers, 44
user interface art, outsourcing, 188

V
visibility, 232
vision document, 205-206
presentation of, 206-209

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Visual Patch, 304
VOC, 342
voice assets, 116
voice-overs, 49
outsourcing, 190, 353-360

script example, 360-361
volume, 382
voxels, 90

W
walkthrough, 220-221
Warcraft, 19
watermarking, 343
WAV, 342
Wei-Ch’i, 7-8
white box testing, 155
WMA, 343
writers, 41
writing, outsourcing, 369-373

X
XMI, 341
X-Plane, 10

About the CD
The contents of the companion CD are not the usual bits of programming code one would expect in a
traditional computer programming book. Instead, you will find three tools that are very useful in the
production and development of your games.
The following folders are on the CD:
Perforce—Perforce is a very powerful asset and source code control system. Asset management
and version control are critical bits of day-to-day housekeeping in the development of a game. Most
folks start out with Microsoft’s very modestly priced Visual Source Safe. After your team grows you
will begin to feel the limits of VSS, and Perforce is an excellent solution. Perforce is somewhat

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expensive; however, the version included on the CD is a free two-client and server license to use
as long as you like.
Perforce has also graciously supplied a Best Practices White Paper on version control.
Daily Journal—The Daily Journal is a tool we developed and use internally at Taldren to track and
publish the company’s activities on a daily basis. As you will see, it is a very thin web applet with no
additional bells or whistles. Feel free to modify the Daily Journal to your needs.
Describe—Describe is by far the easiest to use of the forward and backward code generation
UML tools that I have used. A full-featured demo of Describe is included on the CD.
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List of Tables
Chapter 3: What Makes Game Development Hard?
Table 1: PC Game Project Financial Basics
Table 2: Game Project Payoffs at Various Sales Targets
Table 3: Long Game Projects

Chapter 17: Unified Modeling Language Survival Guide
Table 1: UML Symbols for Visibility
Table 2: The Nine Diagrams of the UML

List of Code Examples
Chapter 17: Unified Modeling Language Survival Guide
Code generated for MonsterNPC.cpp
Code generated by Describe for Ogre.h
Code generated for Ogre.cpp

List of Sidebars
Chapter 7: Key Design Elements

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From Gamespot review of Descent to Undermountain:
From Gamespot review of Descent to Undermountain:

Chapter 28: Outsourcing Music
Using Live Orchestra for Games

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