The document provides information about Phenix Yu, the Technical Director at Keystone Game Studio. It includes details about his background, experience, and past projects. It then outlines the typical team structure for game development, including roles like Producer, Designer, Engineer, Artist, Musician, and Tester. The rest of the document discusses the game development process, preparing to be a game designer, and tools and technologies used in development like game engines, scripting languages, and graphics libraries.

1. Keystone Game Studio
Technical Director
Game Dev. Story
phenix.yu@kgsmail.com
CS,NCTU,2011/05/30

2. Who am I
• M.S., CGGM Lab., CSIE, NCTU, 2003
• Sr. Software Engineer, XPEC, 2003-2007
• Technical Director, KGS, present
• Zenith Engine, PC/XBOX/PS2/GameCube
• “Spectral Force 3”, XBOX360
• “Equal Card DS”, NDS
• development: XBOX360/PS3/Wii/NDS/iOS

3. Agenda
• Team Structure
• Development Process
• Be a Game Designer
• Prepare your Gears

4. Team Structure

5. Designer
Engineer Artist
Producer
Game
Tester Musician

6. Producer
• Negotiate
• Communicate
• Market
• Schedule
• Budget
• Quality

7. Designer
• Concept
• Mechanism
• Level Design
• Story
• User Interface

8. Engineer
• Graphics
• System
• Audio
• User Interface
• Network
• Tool

9. Artist
• Concept
• Modeling
• Rigging
• Animation
• Texturing
• Scene
• Special Effect

10. Musician
• BGM
• Sound Effect
• Atmosphere

11. Tester
• Find Bugs
• Certification
• Quality Assurance

12. Development Process

13. Concept Pitch GDD
Pre-Production Prototype ● ● ●
First Playable
GDD TDD MDD
Production
Milestone ● ● ●
Test Alpha Beta Master

14. Be a Game Designer

16. Prepare your Gears

17. UDK

18. Shader Tree

19. AnimSet

20. Audio

21. Physics

22. Kismet

23. Matinee

24. Cascade

25. CryEngine

26. Terrain

27. Natural World

28. Flow Graph

29. Audio

30. Resource
• Unreal 1 • CryEngine 1
• 54 man-year • 60 man-year
• Unreal 2 • CryEngine 2
• 72 man-year • 70 man-year
• Unreal 3 • CryEngine 3
• 80 man-year • 75 man-year

31. HOW?

32. Don’t
Re-invent the Wheel

33. Script Language

34. • Javascript
• Python
• Lua
• Ruby

35. LOO-ah

36. WHY?

37. FAST

38. Light Weight

39. Virtual Machine

40. FREE

41. Addons

42. • Crysis
• Far Cry
• SimCity 4
• STALKER
• World of Warcraft

43. Binding

44. tolua++

45. Mark

46. Configure

47. Custom Build

48. Generate

49. Import

50. Use

51. Window Programming

52. wxWidgets

53. Cross-Platform
• Windows
• Macintosh
• Linux
• UNIX
• Windows Mobile
• iOS

54. Binding
• Python
• Perl
• Ruby
• Lua

55. Sample

56. Result

57. Graph

58. Graphviz

59. Layout
Algorithms

60. Example

61. More

63. OpenGL

64. LuaGL

66. fsmEditor
• wxLua • Lpeg
• win. program • script parsing
• LuaGraph • wxAUIManager
• states layout • dockable panes
• LuaGL • wxStyledTextCtrl
• states rendering • styled script

69. To Infinity and Beyond

70. Q&A