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0:01Good morning everyone and welcome to DGD
0:04205 game development pipelines the
0:08course with an obscure name that you
0:10might know you might not know what it is
0:13about all right but it will be all will
0:15be made clear in a moment and a quick
0:18note it it is week two it is the 1st of
0:22October 2026 and in case you are
0:25watching this later on to cram for the
0:28exam
0:29There was no week one. Week one was
0:32swallowed whole by the opening lecture.
0:36So there's that. So this week we are
0:38going to take last week was going to be
0:40introduction. This week is going to be
0:42the introduction plus week one. But
0:46don't worry I can cover everything as
0:48quickly as I want. I am the professor
0:50after all. What I say goes. So but let's
0:53quickly uh talk about the class a little
0:57bit. We will talk, we will go and do
1:01things. Here is the syllabus. I'm going
1:03to open it for you for game development
1:05pipelines. But some things to get out of
1:08the way first.
1:10This is my new whiteboard. Do you like
1:13it? But the problem is I am not used to
1:17this yet. So for this week, my fumbles
1:22and my bad handwriting will be the
1:25whiteboard's fault. It's what be my
1:27fault at all. Okay. So,
1:31you know who I am. You know my name. I
1:33should get that music into here
1:34sometime. Wonderful theme song. But what
1:39we will have is
1:44a midterm. Oh, before that. No, before.
1:48Yes. Before that, it was kind of like a
1:50Henry Kevl moment. You know that in
1:52Warhammer? You Yes. So uh
1:57but okay the way to contact me. So
2:02proper class etiquette actually let me
2:06write it.
2:14This might seem like etiquette to you
2:16the Turkish students. It is not. It's an
2:19English word meaning
2:21gentlemany but it doesn't in involve
2:24anything about being a gentleman. It's
2:26it's about doing things properly and if
2:28you have played the end you know this
2:30because there's a skill named etiquette
2:32but other than that so it means how do
2:35we do things around here now if you want
2:37to reach me you are going to reach me
2:39through these emails.
2:47I think you can figure out this means
2:49yet. Okay, it it is not or anything.
2:57And then there is
3:00arguably
3:08this is the one you would normally go
3:09for if the school has decided to
3:14activate it because they generally
3:16activate it around mid November every
3:19year. I don't know why. I think probably
3:22I'm not important enough for them. So
3:25this is okay. And this is okay. And if
3:29you somehow get a hold of it, which is
3:30not difficult, of course, I will not
3:33write it here to make your job harder.
3:37What? Oh, it's an eraser. Sorry.
3:41And this is too thin. As you can see,
3:43I'm trying to adjust for this thing. And
3:46it seems to be a great piece of
3:48software, but there are serious
3:50problems. I'm still writing my personal
3:52email. Why? Why? Why? Why?
4:00This is a big no. Okay. Why? Because it
4:05is very crowded in there. Your mail will
4:07probably get lost and even if it is, I
4:10will not respond to it. Okay. The reason
4:13is our correspondence for this class
4:16should be recorded appropriately just in
4:19case in the future you or me decide to
4:24say but you said this and I said that
4:27again it can be me who is in the wrong
4:29it can be you who is in the wrong okay
4:32I'm not discriminating
4:34but what what's been sent through email
4:38in one mailing will always be true,
4:43right? So, please, if you're going to
4:46write me about anything
4:48about the class, write me through here.
4:51Okay? And definitely
4:57and absolutely
5:01not this.
5:05Okay? Do not You have my number. it's in
5:08the uh group but please do not reach out
5:12to me on WhatsApp about the class for
5:14the same reason. All right. Anything
5:17else? If you have any questions
5:18regarding game design or if you if you
5:20have a question regarding another course
5:23if you if you want advice about
5:25something please you can reach out to me
5:28on WhatsApp about that. Okay. If you try
5:31to reach out to me about this class or
5:34any of my classes that you take on
5:37WhatsApp, I will let you
5:42be seen and that will be that.
5:46Okay.
6:34for
6:36WhatsApp.
6:40WhatsApp
6:54Foreign
6:56speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.
7:26for
7:42we we got that out of the way. Now about
7:45the class structure,
7:49as you know, our borders are in red,
7:53our titles are in white. and important
7:56things are underlined in yellow. So
8:01no, not let's not call it class
8:03structure because I want you to wake up
8:06and be aware of what's going on. It will
8:09be the grading system.
8:13Suddenly all ears are perked up because
8:15it's about grading, right? What's more
8:18important than grading
8:23grading system? I follow a
8:2740,
8:2930,
8:3220,
8:3410 approach. 40 is the final exam,
8:4030 is the midterm exam,
8:4420 is attendance,
8:48and 10 is assignments.
8:54Now uh these two can swap places from
8:57time to time. Okay. But the thing is the
9:01thing about attendance. Have any of you
9:03taken one of my classes before?
9:06I know Ahmed Tar because I've seen his
9:08face.
9:09>> I think
9:09>> I'm just coming to that. I've seen his
9:11face and I've seen Nikita and I read him
9:16all the time and sometimes he speaks
9:18too. So I know you for example you guys
9:21but others
9:24what you should know about me is about
9:27attendance I'm pretty flexible okay this
9:30lecture is online maybe you don't have
9:32even any other courses today so you are
9:34not at school that's all of is perfectly
9:37online and okay and some I know some of
9:40you are working that's also fine so I'm
9:43not hard on attendance okay which is why
9:45I don't fail anybody based on attendance
9:48you won't fail fail because of
9:50attendance. You may not come to any of
9:52the classes. You can just watch the
9:54YouTube recordings or not. And what you
9:57would lose would be just 20%.
10:00You would go on with 80% of the class.
10:03And to be honest, I'm not even that
10:06strict about it. Okay? Because if you
10:10ace these two, I don't want to lower
10:13your grade too much just because you
10:15didn't attend. So what I do is this.
10:17Generally,
10:21if you don't attend any of the classes,
10:25this will be a little low. If you attend
10:27some of the classes and these grades are
10:30good, I will bump this up to meet these.
10:35So, I will make sure you won't get
10:37anything below what your exams
10:40entitle you to. Okay?
10:43But your exams may not be very good or
10:46they might be mid as alpha genpha says
10:49these days but you attend and you
10:52participate in class then I give this a
10:55full grade and it bumps your grade up a
10:58little bit. Okay, is that clear?
11:02Very brief Turkish version.
11:49And the criteria for a criterion it's
11:53singular for attendance is some of you
11:56know this already. If I can kill you
11:59with a death note
12:02then you are present in class. What does
12:04it mean? It means I know your name. I
12:06know your face and I can also associate
12:09the two. Okay.
12:12And
12:14you might have students online students
12:18have an unusual rate of broken webcams.
12:22So normally you would say about 5%
12:26of webcams in the world would be broken
12:29right on average because they are
12:30electronic devices. They work. If you're
12:33if in students it's something about 60%.
12:36So in 10 students, six of them says, "Oh
12:38sir, my webcam is broken. My webcam
12:40doesn't work. My webcam has went to
12:42Bahamas or something like that." All
12:44right, I know that's not true. I know
12:47you don't want to turn on your webcams
12:50for any reason. Maybe it's because you
12:53were online students during the COVID
12:55pandemic and you wanted to play games in
12:58the background. Maybe one of you is
12:59playing LOL or Valor, even worse. Maybe
13:02even playing Valerant right now.
13:05In that case, I don't even want to look
13:06at you anyway. All right. So, if you
13:10excuse me, I'm going to change the nib
13:13on one of these because Ah, but where is
13:16the Ah, that's bad.
13:21This pen cannot write at all
13:25properly. So, if you excuse me just for
13:28one second, I will try to conduct an
13:31operation.
13:34I will switch to my final pen nib if I
13:39can. Oh. Oh, no. Wait a second. Wait,
13:42wait, wait, wait. It's done. No, I just
13:46pulled out the new one. And as you can
13:48see, now I will pull out this one
13:51very expertly. I cannot do that, but I
13:55did. And I will insert the new one. And
13:59even the new one is worn out a little
14:01bit too bad. Okay. Sorry. Then I have to
14:04buy new ones,
14:06right? And the old old one
14:11goes in here. Ah,
14:15there was a very nifty removing hole
14:18here. And I just missed it.
14:21Okay. Any questions about the grading
14:23system? Then let's test this out. Not
14:26this one, but this one. It's It's
14:29working. It's working.
14:31Star Wars one episode racer. Episode one
14:34racer reference. By the way, a new
14:35episode one racer game is coming up and
14:37it's going to be spectacular. I will
14:39play the heck out of it. Any questions
14:41regarding this?
14:44This will be a paper exam.
14:48Hang on. Okay. This will be a paper
14:50exam. This will also be a paper exam
14:53because we are kind of like a
14:55theoretical class.
14:57And in this exam
15:00there will be no phones.
15:04Okay.
15:06I hide it that I will be there. If I was
15:12you would see a very bad side of me
15:15and there will be no notes
15:19solely for the reason that you won't
15:22need them. Okay? Because my exams if any
15:26of you have entered them before are not
15:28very difficult. What we will have a I
15:32will give instructions to assistants. If
15:35any phones are seen
15:38they have to take your exam immediately
15:41and hold
15:43take note of it. Tutanak tutmak in
15:45Turkish. And if any notes are seen, they
15:48will gently ask you to leave them out of
15:50class because apparently and rightfully
15:54so. Once the exam is over and the papers
15:59are collected,
16:01we cannot do anything about this because
16:03it means we saw or didn't see it and we
16:05accepted this. So before the exam, these
16:08things will be checked. They are always
16:09checked. But some people in the past
16:12have slipped in phones and they've been
16:15seen using them.
16:19And this will
16:22well let me just tell you this will net
16:26you a
16:29zero. Okay, that exam will be null for
16:31me. It will be zero. Why? because
16:33everybody else is there and they have
16:37studied for something and they're on the
16:39same course with you, right? And they
16:41are doing what should be done and you
16:43are there trying to cheat with notes or
16:46phones. That's not fair. Okay, I don't
16:50gain anything from that but the people
16:53that studied with you are you are being
16:56unfair to them. Okay, does that make
16:59sense?
17:00So because I mean what would happen if I
17:04if you just took out your phone and then
17:06ask chat GPT about the question it would
17:07give you a stellar answer. I would
17:09probably know if it's chat GPT because
17:11of the way it's worded it. But then
17:15again I cannot do anything about that
17:17because there is no way to say you can
17:19just say oh I just wrote like chat GPT
17:21you are exaggerating sir and there's
17:23nothing I can do about that. So
17:26uh but rest assured the exams are not
17:30difficult. There will be a test section.
17:33Okay. And then there will be an open
17:35question section. In the open questions
17:38I will ask you to explain certain things
17:41because just test is too easy.
17:45But just open question may not well
17:49there should be an a little bit easier
17:51test section to give you some points
17:54about
17:56so
17:58if you have taken my exams before you
18:00know the exams are not that difficult.
18:02I'm not asking anything I didn't
18:06talk to you about in the classes. So I
18:08don't say anything like watch this or
18:11read this and then I will ask you from
18:13that. Okay, everything that I will ask
18:16you will be uttered in the classroom. So
18:20if you watch them live, you will have a
18:22better understanding of it. You can
18:23watch the recordings as well. Anyway, so
18:27are we clear on this as well? Please,
18:30please, oh please do not cheat. Not for
18:35me, but for your other classmates.
18:38Nobody likes a cheater except for other
18:41cheaters. Cheater knows cheater and
18:43cheater likes cheater and cheater also
18:45cheats cheater. So and it makes them all
18:48cheaper. Okay, I'm moving on. But any
18:51one thing you won't have much of an
18:54assignments in this class. So you don't
18:56have to worry about this. Maybe one or
18:57two.
18:59But one thing you know about me already
19:02is
19:04late submission
19:08equals zero. All right. But as I say,
19:13it's only 10% in this class. So, but I
19:15will give you a zero.
19:18But it's only 10%. So, in this class, it
19:20doesn't matter that much. If you take
19:21any other classes from me, you should
19:23know that this is my one very very hard
19:26rule. If you late assign, if you give an
19:29late submission, you get a zero.
19:31Actually, I think it was last semester,
19:34a very very good student of mine, uh,
19:38a guy I know and he's a very good
19:41student,
19:43but
19:45he had a medical condition
19:48and he submitted late and his exam was
19:52midterm exam was very good too. So, and
19:55he had a report about it,
19:58but
20:01How to put this? The condition was a
20:05known condition from before. It wasn't
20:07something that just came up recently.
20:11So, I did not fail him. I gave him the
20:14bare minimum to pass.
20:17That was the most I did
20:20up until now for a student because there
20:23was a medical report and he was a real
20:27good student.
20:29any of any of these conditions were
20:31missing he would get a zero okay
20:36that stands for you too but not for this
20:38class I mean nothing to worry about here
20:40okay so let's look at what we will go
20:44through this semester
20:48hey wait a second
20:51it did it didn't move okay this one
20:53moves this one moves this one switches
20:59I don't like that.
21:01Anyway, I will have to fix that. I mean,
21:04theatrics, right? It's everything. So,
21:07let's take a look at this. I'll share my
21:09screen so you can see the text better.
21:14What do we have here?
21:17Wait a second. Don't do it from here. Do
21:19it from here. Yeah. Now, this is
21:23something
21:25painstakingly and
21:27wonderfully crafted by your friends.
21:32Maybe some of you are here. Those of any
21:34is anyone involved in crafting of these
21:36syllabuses syllabi
21:40interesting
21:41for example sometimes you say formula
21:45criterion criteria singular plural. Now
21:48if it is coming from Latin you do that
21:51but if it's coming from ancient Greek
21:53you don't do that. How do you know? You
21:55cannot know. So for example, it's not
21:58octopi. Octopus is singular. Octopuses
22:02is the correct one because octopus is
22:04not Latin. It's ancient Greek. So it
22:05isn't octopi. So if you try to go around
22:08being a wise ass about, oh, it's
22:11actually octopi and someone just shuts
22:13you down, that's on you. Do your
22:15research before you try to be a wise
22:17ass. Okay. Anyway,
22:19so but this is a wonderfully crafted
22:23thing. So maybe I can even ask some
22:25things from here. There's text in here.
22:28See, now it's up to you to decide if I'm
22:31really joking or not.
22:34Anyway,
22:36introduction to class discussion. We
22:38don't discuss anything. You don't speak,
22:40I speak. That's the way this goes. I
22:42would love a good discussion, but it
22:43rarely happens. Meeting. Hello, we met.
22:47Topics, we are just about to go over
22:49that. Rules and requirements. We just
22:51went over that. And here now steps of
22:54game development conceptualization
22:57pre-production production and
22:59post-production what are these [snorts]
23:02big actually let's talk a little bit
23:04about what this entire course is about
23:07because what is a pipeline what does it
23:09do now we're going to talk about
23:14the topic of
23:16you founded a studio now what okay this
23:20is also the title of my
23:22You founded a studio. Now what?
23:26And then you will you start a game and
23:30if you are four or five people and you
23:33just randomly run around, message each
23:36other on WhatsApp and try to do
23:38something, you will most likely not
23:41finish that. Okay. What you need is
23:45a set way of
23:48rules to do something. How do we do
23:52this? So when your studio grows, you
23:56will have an understanding of how to do
23:59things, you will be able to document it
24:01as such and people,
24:04newcoming people to your studio will not
24:07be lost and also you won't be lost when
24:10you try to remember how you did
24:12something.
24:14So we're going to look at workflows and
24:17pipelines. There are two different
24:18things. The game the game is named the
24:21course is named pipeline but we will
24:24look at workflows and pipelines. What is
24:27and what is not a pipeline? How art code
24:30and design meet in pipelines. This will
24:32be next week and then we will look into
24:36the most important thing that you can
24:39take away from this course version
24:42control. Does anybody know what version
24:44control is
24:46already?
24:51Nobody.
24:53Not a single one of you
24:56>> kind of.
24:58Then why don't you say so?
25:05[laughter]
25:07Okay. Then I will tell you this. If you
25:09know what version control is, please
25:12raise a hand or do something. I want to
25:14know how much you know so I can teach
25:16you better. Okay.
25:24[laughter]
25:30Okay. So, only ST knows about version
25:32control. The rest is okay. I met Taric
25:35also knows. The rest of you are
25:37completely oblivious. And actually, let
25:40me take a look. You are 19 people here
25:42right now and the class has 25 people.
25:45So, not bad.
25:48Not bad.
25:52But okay,
25:5418
25:5617 of you are completely oblivious
26:00to what version control is. You have
26:02never even heard of GitHub.
26:05That's what I understand. So, I'm going
26:08to teach you that even if I have to die
26:11doing it because
26:14version control is the thing that will
26:19save your back so many times. For
26:23example, one of the do you remember how
26:26I told you webcam failure is the most
26:29common thing that students experience?
26:31The second one is laptop or hard disk
26:33failure because magically your laptops
26:38fail right before you have to submit a
26:42project. So I get emails after emails of
26:45sir I'm sorry my laptop has crashed my
26:47my hard disk is corrupted etc etc. Now
26:52this is the solution to that. Version
26:54control will protect your precious files
26:57even if you have never started doing it.
27:00Okay? So that is not an excuse either.
27:03Version control will protect your files,
27:07keep them safe and also give you a
27:11breadcrumb to track what you did and
27:15when. That is also very important
27:17because sometimes you use a you change
27:20something in your game and it completely
27:22breaks everything or it isn't fun and
27:25you want to roll back. This lets you do
27:29that. And this will also prevent you
27:31from going to Reddit with tears in your
27:34eyes saying I have lost six months of
27:37work because my laptop crashed
27:40and then they will tell you you should
27:42have used version control
27:44and they will be right. Okay, that's why
27:49we have one week of it. Previously we
27:51had two weeks of it. But look what
27:53happened here. We have only 13 weeks
27:56before the finals. Previously we had 14.
27:58One year we had 15 that was a great year
28:01but this semester we have only 13 weeks
28:04so two weeks of git was cut down to one
28:07but don't worry I will put it in your
28:11head because it will come up in the exam
28:14both in midterm and in final okay so
28:18please take this seriously when I tell
28:20you this course is about pipelines but
28:24git and github will be the most
28:27important thing you will learn because
28:30practically it will help you in any job
28:33application as well. Knowing version
28:35control is a plus even if you are an
28:38artist.
28:40I'm looking at you art people. All
28:42right.
28:44So then
28:46we will look at pre-production
28:48workflows, concept development, budget
28:51planning and pipeline planning because
28:54basically what happens after production
28:57and post-production is completely up to
28:59you. But there are things that you can
29:01do right during pre-production that will
29:04make your life a lot less painful. All
29:08right. Then you will look into thing
29:10that you don't like at all.
29:12documentation which is crucial but
29:15dreaded by designer and coder alike.
29:18Artists don't even care about
29:20documentation but they should. So we
29:22going to look at the documents that you
29:24would need for your game throughout your
29:27development journey. Okay?
29:30And we will also look at devlogs and
29:31video documentation possibilities.
29:34Then we will take a look we will take
29:38since most of you are working in unity
29:40and will be working with unity we will
29:43going to look at some pipeline examples
29:45Unity not the definitive way to do
29:48things but good practices and examples
29:52of how to set up a pipeline and you are
29:55still asking what is a pipeline I mean
29:57you've been talking about it nonstop for
29:59half an hour but you haven't told us
30:01what it is okay I just will all Right?
30:05But as you see it is actually next week
30:08but I can make an exception for you
30:11or very brief exception. And then 3D and
30:14animation pipeline examples in Unity and
30:18audio pipeline examples in Unity.
30:21Project management basics because you
30:23will need this project management
30:27doesn't mean just business side of it.
30:32Well,
30:33a spoiler,
30:36project management is all about timing
30:38and time management. So, if you are bad
30:41at time management, you either get good
30:45or you don't become a product manager.
30:48All right. It also involves managing
30:50people and people's skills, all that
30:52jazz.
30:54Introduction to QA. Implementing QA in
30:56pipelines. QA stands for quality
30:58assurance. It is the step after
31:02development
31:04where someone comes in, tests the thing
31:06and then says this part is broken and
31:08this part is broken. Nobody likes them.
31:11They are paid very little amount of
31:13money. Nobody cares about them. But QA
31:17is absolutely crucial if you want to
31:20ship something that works. Okay? And
31:25then we will do a review for the final.
31:28than the finals. Now, this gives us some
31:32wiggle room. So, I may not be able to
31:36get into all of it this week. It will
31:38bump everything down a little bit. No
31:41problems because this will not come up
31:43in the midterm. So, if we we have
31:45already lost one week. So, I will start
31:50this one but probably finish it next
31:52week. But don't worry, there won't be
31:54any problems when you enter the midterm.
31:57I will not be asking from this anyway.
32:00So, you're good. We are all good because
32:03as you know better than I do, midterm
32:07exam week shifts
32:11a lot in Estonia University. You have
32:13midterms on week six, you can have
32:15midterms on week seven, you can have
32:17midterms on week eight. And this is
32:20interesting because in a 13week
32:22semester, it's on week eight. But in a
32:2415week semester, it's on week six. I
32:27mean,
32:29life is unpredictable.
32:31So is your university. So embrace it.
32:33Okay.
32:37Okay. Some people thrive in chaos. That
32:40will be you. So
32:44let's get back here. All right. Do you
32:47want to take a break?
32:50Let's take a five minute break. Okay. I
32:53will pause the recording. So the entire
32:55recording will be one monlock but it's
32:5810:50. So let's meet back here in 1055
33:02and we will go into the meat of it.
33:14>> Recording in progress.
33:17>> Okay everyone, welcome back.
33:20If you are watching this from YouTube,
33:22you just experienced a time jump where
33:24you didn't feel anything in between.
33:26That is by design. So let's go. Now we
33:31will get into the actual topic that we
33:34are supposed to work with. Right. Let me
33:41let's find and this thing has a stupid
33:44zoom ability. zoom unzoomability because
33:48you see I have to go here and zoom out
33:51from here like this that is a pain
33:57and I don't want to do that and we don't
33:58know what is 100% is either so this is
34:03kind of
34:05I the moment I find a better software
34:09I'll jump ship so I expect your input
34:11about what can be a better whiteboard
34:14maybe I'll have my own coded
34:18see I couldn't even go into this so
34:22let's move on
34:24so what do you mean with pipelines
34:28well I know we are going to talk about
34:30the production steps first but what is a
34:33pipeline right
34:49Okay. Now,
34:51uh you can say what a pipeline is. It is
34:55made of pipes, right?
34:59And it comes literally comes from this.
35:02When you are going to transfer a liquid,
35:05you lay a group of pipes together,
35:08right?
35:09And this will enable your job to start
35:12or your liquid to come from one end and
35:14end in the other. So this is what this
35:17is literally a pipeline.
35:20For example, some of the most
35:22problematic pipelines in the world are
35:24oil pipelines
35:26because they are always contested.
35:28Someone
35:29uses them to transfer oil and oil is
35:32very important. But in our
35:36example,
35:39a pipeline is
35:41a standardized.
35:46Forgive my bad writing.
35:51I should also change the tablet as well,
35:53I guess. Let me just take it like this.
35:56Standardized technical process.
36:05for moving
36:10assets and data
36:16through different
36:19stages of production.
36:30I hope you can read this now.
36:36Erh.
36:37So what do I mean by that? By the way,
36:41the key words here are standardized
36:45and technical. So if you have a pipeline
36:49about something you say this is the way
36:53we move this assets. So what do I mean
36:57by for moving assets and data through
36:59different stages of production. For
37:00example, let's take a pipeline that we
37:03all know very well. So you are making a
37:053D game, right? For example, what should
37:08you be doing
37:10for your 3D models for your characters?
37:13First you would do 3D modeling.
37:19And then you would do texturing on
37:22these,
37:24right? And then you would do rigging on
37:27them
37:30and you would make animations
37:34and then you would put them into the
37:37engine.
37:38Does it make sense this line? Because
37:42you pretty much know this. So, just a
37:45quick recap in Turkish.
38:04pipeline.
38:13First you have to do the 3D modeling for
38:16example and by the way a different
38:19artist can be doing every one of these
38:21because there are for example there are
38:24texture artists 3D modelers don't always
38:27do texturing most of the time they do
38:30but they don't always do texturing
38:33rigging and animation can be one bundle
38:37okay but there are very specific
38:39specific people who do rigging and
38:42weight painting. For example, I have an
38:44animator friend who works in Hollywood
38:46industry and he doesn't know rigging at
38:48all. I mean pro he probably can do it if
38:51needed but he doesn't know it very well.
38:53So he just receives the rig animated
38:57rigged already and he just animates. I
39:01know this because sometimes I heard him
39:03about talking oh there was this model
39:06which was rigged very well. So he has to
39:09work with the rig that is given to him
39:11and if the rig is good he does better
39:14job he does does a better job but the
39:18pipeline is
39:20how you move through these so maybe for
39:23example you use maya for this and
39:28because of some
39:31I don't know why reason you use
39:34substance for this
39:36I don't know if substance can used only
39:38for texturing but you can use texturing
39:40and applied on that and you use blender
39:42for this these two again
39:45I would question why you would do that
39:48so it doesn't matter right let's delete
39:52all of this the thing is your file your
39:56final 3D character will will move
40:00through different stages and there will
40:03be different things you will be doing
40:04for example the modeler will model
40:08And then they will also texture it and
40:10they will put it up in your codebase in
40:12your repo. Right? Then the rigger will
40:15pull it up. Maybe these two are same
40:19people as well but they use different
40:20software. So you will need to convert
40:24this format to this format. Maybe
40:27convert the
40:29access you right or for example you are
40:33using unity very notoriously. Let me
40:36show you.
40:38You are using Unity for this.
40:41But you are using Blender for all of
40:43these, right?
40:45That's a more sensible approach. Now,
40:48the thing is, let me just make this
40:51better.
40:54The thing is, Blender is
40:59a Z side up
41:03software.
41:06Wait a second.
41:11Which means in Blender when you have the
41:15axis X is this, Y is this and Z it Z is
41:21up. All right. So if you have any height
41:23it is Z. In Unity
41:26you have X here, you have Y here and you
41:31have Z here. So if you build a model
41:34like this and take it into Unity
41:38natively without doing any steps at all,
41:41it will come out this way. You might
41:44have experienced that your friend models
41:47something in Blender, hands it over to
41:49you, you put it in Unity, it cames out
41:51comes out this way and you have to
41:53create a special container and then turn
41:55the model upright inside it. or this one
42:00works in not specific units but unity
42:04works in meters.
42:06So you
42:09model something here and here it comes
42:12100 times larger. You might have
42:14encountered this. What you do to prevent
42:16this is either change
42:20export settings in Blender or write a
42:23small software in between or change the
42:26import settings in Unity or write a
42:27script. This is part of your pipeline.
42:31Okay. The technical thing that you do
42:35always and consistently to make your
42:39workflow work.
42:42So
42:43uh what do I mean by workflow then?
42:46Because we going to compare them with
42:49each other. Let me just not be able to
42:53zoom out because it's such a tedious
42:56thing. But a workflow is
43:04oh in the meantime sorry
43:08when I put yellow stars at the start of
43:11something it means I'm probably going to
43:14ask it in the exam midterm or final. All
43:17right and the more stars the more
43:20possible that I'm going to ask it. So
43:23watch this.
43:25Okay, I will ask this in the exam.
43:30Here it is. I'm saying it out loud. This
43:32will be asked in the exam. Okay, now so
43:37is this most probably.
43:42Okay, so be careful, pay attention. Now
43:46these are
43:48this is very technical. Okay, as I said,
43:53what we say is you run these through
43:55these software and apply these practices
43:58and use this codebase, run that script,
44:01the technical things that you do.
44:03Workflow is more like how we do it. All
44:07right? Not what we do to make it work,
44:10but more like how we do it. And we
44:12define it as the sequence of human tasks
44:15and decision making processes that
44:17people follow. So let me just write it
44:20here first. The mumbo jumbo that you
44:22will encounter in the exam then we will
44:24talk about it a little. All right.
44:30The sequence of
44:33human tasks
44:35and decision making processes.
44:38Let me write it under that.
44:52Why am I writing this by hand? Why I'm
44:54not why am I not typing it or just copy
44:56pasting it from some or better yet why
44:59am I not showing you slides? Does
45:01anybody know
45:16The reason for that is
45:19if I copy paste it, if the text
45:21magically appears, your brain doesn't
45:25parse it as well as writing it like
45:29this. If I show you a slide, you will
45:31just fly away. You will look at the
45:33slide and your mind will start wondering
45:35here or there. So, and if I also type it
45:39by hand, type it with a keyboard, it
45:42will also be not effective. It's it's
45:44something neurological. Your brain is
45:47engaged with the input because the input
45:50is coming in a streaming way. It's not
45:52blasted on your face at once. I'm I mean
45:55you have all been in some kind of
45:56webinar where there are slides and I
46:00know it doesn't work. All right. So, but
46:04what does it mean? the sequence of human
46:06tasks and decision making processes that
46:08people follow. So it is what kind of
46:11steps do we follow to do these things
46:14right? So basically for example let's
46:18say
46:20now let's come to this one all right
46:23let's think about how we do this how we
46:26do this is for example a 3D artist
46:32sorry
46:35Now you will see the difference. 3D
46:38artist
46:41receives brief
46:46from design lead.
46:49So basically the lead designer comes and
46:51says to the artist, "Oh, we need a
46:53character. It's going to be a mage. This
46:54is a fantasy setting. So we need to
46:56design a mage." And this is not a
46:58setting that use they use spell books.
47:01Instead, they drink potions to cast
47:03their magic. So, their the wizard should
47:06be riddled with potions all around. No
47:08books inside. See, this is a brief about
47:11what I'm going to do.
47:14Actually, it would start with
47:17and for example, then 3D artist
47:23receives
47:26or looks up
47:31concept art from
47:35the design document,
47:41right? And then 3D artist
47:47models and let's say models and textures
47:50because in this studio 3D artist both
47:54models and textures, right? Models and
47:58textures the character.
48:05The design lead
48:09reviews
48:12gives
48:15revisions.
48:19You put two more the portions on him. I
48:21mean, he's going to be a walking shingle
48:23shingle thing. Just tune down the
48:25portions a little bit, right?
48:283D artist revises the model
48:37approved.
48:40Okay. Do you see the difference? This is
48:43how things are done, who you talk to,
48:46what you do to accomplish this. So I
48:49didn't write even one software name or
48:53pipeline element here, right? What
48:55happens is when we want to model a 3D
48:59character, what are the steps that we
49:03take on this one? Does it make sense the
49:07difference between a pipeline and
49:10workflow?
49:14So in this in traditional education,
49:16some the teacher would say can would
49:19anybody want to repeat it back to me? I
49:21don't care about that. If you know, you
49:23know. But these two will be asked in the
49:26exam you know. So you better pay
49:28attention.
49:32Oh in case in case you aren't aware I
49:35put this blackboard or whiteboard or
49:38whatever the board in Google classroom
49:41as well. So you can study from that. If
49:44you take notes by hand more power to
49:46you. You are learning better than the
49:49rest of them. You are the ace. But if
49:52you are not taking notes by hand, that's
49:54also all right. The reason is if your
49:57hand is working
50:00physically, you are using more of your
50:04senses because you already see and you
50:06already hear. And if you use one more
50:08thing with your brain, your learning is
50:11reinforced. Okay? So if you are taking
50:14your own notes, as I said,
50:15congratulations. You are those who learn
50:18better anyway. So, but are we clear? Do
50:22we have any questions between what these
50:25two are?
50:30So, two studios can have entirely
50:34different workflows or entirely
50:36different pipelines. There is no correct
50:38way to do any of this. Okay, that's
50:41important.
50:43For example, these two come together.
50:48I have to zoom out. I dread this moment.
50:52There should be a quick I mean uh there
50:56are no keyboard shortcuts. What kind of
50:58a software doesn't have keyboard
51:00shortcuts? Okay,
51:03but let me just write it here. Then
51:09there is something we call maybe you
51:11know company culture.
51:14You must have heard about this. You have
51:16one as well. It's not a company, it's a
51:18university. But IA University has a
51:20culture. So the way you do things in
51:23Estinia University, the way you talk
51:26about things, the way you talk about
51:27your professors, the way you raise
51:30concerns, all of them are very different
51:32to Istanul Technical University where I
51:35am from. Right? So
51:38what we when we say sorry
51:45company
51:47culture this is what we mean
51:52the way
51:59things are done.
52:02Let's let's rename this to be better
52:05because company culture is the popular
52:08name but the actual one is organization
52:11culture right because any organization
52:13does have this
52:20the way things are done in an
52:25organization
52:26or organization which pronunciation is
52:28right I don't know nobody does so and
52:31why do I bring this up because pipelines
52:34are a part of it for us. Studios don't
52:38do things the same way. So there is no
52:40correct way to do this and workflows are
52:45a bigger part of this.
52:47Okay. But everything else as well
52:51communication
52:53in the organization
52:56right which software do you use for
52:58communication? Some people use Slack,
53:00some use
53:02Jira, some use Microsoft Teams. I don't
53:04know why they would, but they do. I
53:05mean, we don't question them. If you
53:08join a company, if you join a game
53:10studio and they tell you, oh, by the
53:12way, we use Microsoft Teams, don't ask
53:15them why are you using Microsoft Teams,
53:17right? Either just go out the door or
53:21settle in and use Microsoft Teams along
53:23with them because they won't change it
53:25for you. So but the thing is also this
53:31pipelines workflows communication and
53:34how do we say the way to do things in
53:36another way right
53:39uh way of doing things. I will just
53:43write it like that
53:46because when you think about the word
53:47culture what does culture mean? It means
53:50everything about a community right in
53:55For example, in sociology, culture is
53:59cuisine, clothing,
54:03architecture, language,
54:05communication ways, hand gestures that
54:08are done, right? Swear words,
54:11everything, everything that defines a
54:14community
54:16and kind of sets it apart from other
54:18communities is culture. Now, just like
54:22we have a Turkish culture, there is a
54:24British culture, there's an American
54:27culture, if well, it's probably a
54:32relatively new one, but it is a culture
54:34based on TV and cars and food, but we
54:37don't judge. We just make fun of them
54:39from time to time. So,
54:43companies and game studios also have
54:45their cultures. So, you move from one
54:48game company to another, right? And you
54:51will see some things are done really
54:53differently.
54:55Maybe if it's from your first job to
54:57your second one, it will feel weird and
54:59hostile and it will feel like everything
55:01is being done wrong because the first
55:03thing you learn in life. The first thing
55:06we learn is generally the one that we
55:09are imprinted with. We kind of always
55:12think that is the way to do things
55:14because it's the first example that you
55:17ever saw. I mean the same goes for our
55:19lives as well. The the first time you
55:24see some job being done will always be
55:27in your mind as if that is the correct
55:30way to do it. Even if it changes later
55:32on it will feel like that. So but
55:37something important to understand it's a
55:39little bit out of this classes scope but
55:43I want to talk to you about this a
55:45little bit anyway. In a organization
55:48culture these two can change very
55:51easily. Now these
55:54don't change that easily because as I
55:57said people learn things and it
56:00solidifies it calcifies. Okay. And
56:03sometimes it's toxic
56:06most of the time it can be toxic in
56:08certain
56:10how to say industries and in AAA it has
56:14been toxic for a very long time.
56:17Maybe you heard of this crunch debate
56:19that came out about five or six years
56:21ago. Maybe you heard about it. So
56:24basically what happened was
56:27AAA companies had this thing called
56:30anything can call have crunch.
56:33Crunch is when you overwork and
56:36overworked isn't written with a W. I am
56:39ashamed. I will go kill myself.
56:43Overwork. So you stay later hours. For
56:46example, you are from 9 to 6, but they
56:51ask you to stay until 10:00. They ask
56:54you to come on Saturdays or Sundays
56:56because the project has to be shipped.
56:59So this thing has been a very big thing,
57:02right? And it was actually considered
57:04the norm. People were working very long
57:07hours and they were not compensated for
57:11that even sometimes. And the excuse was
57:14always, "Oh, games is a thing of
57:16passion. So if you're not passionate
57:17about it, if you don't give it your all,
57:20we don't want you here either." Well,
57:23that's not the case. People were losing
57:24their health over it. Actually, Blizzard
57:28is notorious about this. And there was
57:31some sexual harassment
57:34cases against them as well, which makes
57:36a lot of sense because,
57:39well,
57:42that times culture is not a very
57:44friendly culture for against women. So
57:48but there was
57:52the wives because the industry was very
57:56much male dominant in the 90s and early
57:592000s.
58:00The wives of employees on Blizzard has
58:03written a joint open letter saying, "We
58:07want to see our spouses a little bit
58:10more, please, if you just could." And
58:15it's basically this crunch is almost
58:18always management's fault.
58:24management either doesn't organize
58:26things well, doesn't manage it well, or
58:28wants to ship things very fast, so they
58:31burn people out and they don't care.
58:34This was a very big thing five or six
58:36years ago. It was addressed and gamers
58:39were involved and gamers basically said,
58:43"We don't want faster games. We want
58:46better games and healthier people
58:47working in them." So companies like
58:50Rockstar and Blizzard and CD Project Red
58:54said, "Okay, we will not do Crunch
58:56anymore." But I guess they still do
58:59because why would you not abuse your
59:02workers if you can get away with it?
59:06That's capitalism for you. So, and what
59:09why am I telling you about this? Because
59:11you are in Turkey. You will probably
59:14work in a game company in Turkey unless
59:18you go indie, which I highly suggest you
59:20do. But that's besides the point. If you
59:22ever go to work in games industry
59:26and in Turkey, you should be aware that
59:30this crunch thing is very much real
59:34still in Turkey because
59:37now comes
59:40this is a creative actually this
59:43this thing is not warranted.
59:47I will tell you why a little bit to
59:53let's say to
59:55increase your immunity.
1:00:15The world is not a very nice place. So
1:00:18in Turkey,
1:00:23creative media
1:00:26is basically spearheaded by
1:00:28advertisement.
1:00:32Anywhere in the world, it is headed by
1:00:34advertisement. Right.
1:00:39and production, movie and TV production.
1:00:42Let's call it TV production. Okay?
1:00:46And these two sectors, industries in
1:00:49Turkey were
1:00:52not very well regulated for a very long
1:00:56time. I actually remember a class back
1:00:58in my engineering years. It was about
1:01:01analog communication. So, it was
1:01:03basically about radio communication,
1:01:05right?
1:01:07It was very technical but our teacher
1:01:10was from radio industry as well. He was
1:01:14an engineer. He was a very good engineer
1:01:16but he was also working in radio
1:01:20stations.
1:01:21So he told us for example I don't know
1:01:25if you have these these days but there
1:01:28are frequencies that you tune into to
1:01:30listen to a radio station right? I mean,
1:01:33you basically tune into a frequency.
1:01:36It's something like this. So, [snorts]
1:01:39he told us you need to pay pay a fee, a
1:01:44license fee to get this. And you are
1:01:47wondering what am I where am I going
1:01:49with this, but trust me, it's important.
1:01:53And he said it's somewhere about
1:01:55$100,000
1:01:57to secure this frequency, then you can
1:02:00use it, right? So you need you need to
1:02:02pay a lot of money to be able to have a
1:02:06radio frequency for your channel. Now
1:02:08these days it's not that important but
1:02:11throughout most of modern times it was
1:02:14radio was the thing for communication.
1:02:18And then we asked him sir but this is
1:02:21radio okay how do they manage the bands
1:02:25for TV right because TV is also
1:02:28broadcast into the air now these days we
1:02:31have cable and these days or okay 20
1:02:35years ago we had we had cable and these
1:02:37days we have internet so internet can
1:02:39deliver you Netflix and Amazon and even
1:02:41digit if you want to but back in the day
1:02:44it was aired and we asked him sir how
1:02:47does TV work? How is licensing done in
1:02:51the TV? And he said quite bluntly,
1:02:55whichever group has more guns,
1:02:58has more firepower as in mafia gets
1:03:02whatever channel they want in TV. So TV
1:03:07in Turkey was built with
1:03:10mafia organiz organizations, right?
1:03:13Because it was a very effective channel
1:03:15of communication.
1:03:17So it was done like that. What what do I
1:03:22mean by this? Now any organization,
1:03:25production organization
1:03:27that is built on being lawless will not
1:03:31treat its workers right. You can just
1:03:34ask your FA Hoja about this. He knows a
1:03:37lot about TV production and how unfair
1:03:39the conditions are. And I have friends
1:03:41in advertisement agencies that don't
1:03:44receive wages for two or three months.
1:03:47Not because the bosses don't have money,
1:03:49but because not paying the workers and
1:03:52keeping that money in the bank is more
1:03:54profitable. So
1:03:57what does it mean? Now,
1:04:00unfortunately,
1:04:04gaming companies in Turkey more or less
1:04:07follow the same approach. not the guns
1:04:11approach that is not a thing anymore
1:04:15or rather let's say mafia hasn't entered
1:04:17the gaming industry
1:04:19yet but abusing the workers is pretty
1:04:23much alive and well unfortunately now I
1:04:28will tell you this I worked in different
1:04:30gaming companies in Turkey the people
1:04:33you work with are excellent people other
1:04:36young people you work with them you
1:04:39don't see much of a toxicity there,
1:04:43but the buses are very friendly. But if
1:04:47you ever hear these sentences, I will
1:04:50say them in Turkish also because it's
1:04:53important. First, if you hear somebody
1:04:55saying
1:04:59about any business that you will
1:05:01conduct, not not only in gaming, okay?
1:05:03You you are going to be freelance and
1:05:05you will do something and you will ask
1:05:07about the money and they will say
1:05:11It means you won't receive that money
1:05:13unless you specifically beg for it,
1:05:16expose them in social media, dude. And
1:05:20the second most important, most
1:05:22dangerous sentence you will experience
1:05:24in gaming or anywhere is
1:05:28we are a family here. If they say that,
1:05:31it will mean we are a family here. How
1:05:34dare you ask us to treat you right?
1:05:36because your family treats people like
1:05:38right? So
1:05:41if you hear
1:05:43or
1:05:46you should run away from that place. If
1:05:48they don't say those words, they are
1:05:50more
1:05:52corporate or they are more well
1:05:53organized. Well, that's fine then. But
1:05:57unfortunately, for example, I
1:05:59interviewed at one of the biggest
1:06:02gaming companies in Turkey. It was a
1:06:04mobile game company. I interviewed with
1:06:05them and they said, "We have an office.
1:06:08We don't start work at 9:00 like others,
1:06:11but we start at 10:00 and we finish
1:06:14around
1:06:1620
1:06:18eight."
1:06:19Now, why do they It's 10 hours by the
1:06:22way and it's not legal or it's actually
1:06:26as long as it is stated in the contract
1:06:28and you sign it, it is legal.
1:06:32But they said but we can we generally
1:06:34work later to complete projects. Now why
1:06:39do they have the audacity to say this?
1:06:42First because they pay very well and
1:06:43many people take it. Okay, no problem
1:06:46there. But also because their workforce
1:06:49is very young.
1:06:51By very young I mean your age, right? Or
1:06:54the the time when you graduate or
1:06:56something. And one thing young people
1:06:59have a lot is energy.
1:07:02You can stay up later than I do and not
1:07:07be a complete zombie the day after.
1:07:09Okay? And you have more enthusiasm
1:07:15so they can better play into your Oh,
1:07:18this is a thing of passion. How dare you
1:07:21decide to go at 6 p.m. when all your
1:07:23friends are staying here. So they can
1:07:26pressure you into it and they you would
1:07:28give in because
1:07:31you have more enthusiasm about it,
1:07:33right? And don't take this the wrong
1:07:35way, but because you have more time. So
1:07:38you just don't go out to the bar or to
1:07:41drink something after you finish at 20
1:07:45or at 10 p.m. You just go home and go to
1:07:48sleep. I have to go home to kids, for
1:07:50example. So I cannot do this. They
1:07:52cannot pressure and they could not
1:07:53pressure me into doing this. At the
1:07:55moment they said this, I said, "Okay,
1:07:56thank you. It was nice meeting you.
1:07:58Goodbye." All right. But they did offer
1:08:00this to me. And another one when I told
1:08:03them for example, this one is more
1:08:05atrocious, but just so you know, I told
1:08:08them in the interview because I want to
1:08:11be upfront about everything otherwise
1:08:13there can be problems. I said I'm also
1:08:16an indie developer so I'm developing my
1:08:19own projects. Okay, they are not mobile
1:08:22projects. They don't
1:08:26intersect with what you do because if it
1:08:28does, that will be a conflict of
1:08:30interest. I understand that. If I am
1:08:32also doing mobile games in the same area
1:08:35that they do, that would be a conflict
1:08:38of interest. So, they would be right to
1:08:40not want that. But I said, I'm doing I'm
1:08:44making my own games. They are not
1:08:46mobile.
1:08:48I just want to be upfront about this.
1:08:51How do you think about what would you
1:08:52think about that? And what the guy said
1:08:55to me was absolutely not because we pay
1:09:00you that money so that you can rest in
1:09:02your downtime.
1:09:05That stupid clown thought he had my
1:09:09entire 24 hours to himself and he was
1:09:13letting me rest when I was not working.
1:09:16So he didn't want me to work on games
1:09:21when I was not working with him. Okay.
1:09:24Well, I can go do construction job if I
1:09:27want to when I'm not working for him.
1:09:29All right. It's completely So the thing
1:09:33is it it was because it was about games,
1:09:37right? Obviously, if I told him, oh, I'm
1:09:39also doing sewing in my free time, he
1:09:41could say whatever, right? But
1:09:44they will try to pressure your time,
1:09:48your energy to do their bidding all the
1:09:51time. Now,
1:09:53I'm not saying walk out the door, slam
1:09:56the door, shout in their faces. I'm
1:09:58saying because it is a brutal
1:10:01industry out there right now,
1:10:04unfortunately. So okay, this is not a
1:10:06very good time to try to work for a game
1:10:09company around the world and in Turkey.
1:10:13Okay. So sometimes you will when you are
1:10:17offered a job you will say okay I have
1:10:21to storm I have to wait out this storm
1:10:24and I have to do this because I need the
1:10:26experience. I need the job. So I'm not
1:10:29telling you to be completely idealistic
1:10:32and be jobless. Okay, I'm just telling
1:10:35you be aware that you will encounter
1:10:39such things. Okay, now some smaller
1:10:43studios are
1:10:45better about managing this because
1:10:47mostly because they are founded like
1:10:49people like by people like you, younger
1:10:52people like you. All right. So they are
1:10:55they are more aware of what the
1:10:57workforce wants. So they are more
1:10:59democratic, they are more open, they
1:11:01have more flexible times. Some smaller
1:11:04companies are better about this
1:11:08but some companies are not. So you
1:11:10should be aware of the small things and
1:11:15as I say sometimes you will just accept
1:11:18the job and you will say okay whatever I
1:11:20mean it's not fair but I need this. I
1:11:23will write this out for one year two
1:11:25years maybe six months. Okay. So, I'm
1:11:29not telling you just throw the job offer
1:11:30in people's faces and walk out the door.
1:11:33I'm telling you be aware of the things
1:11:36that you might encounter. Okay?
1:11:40All right.
1:11:42Any questions about this?
1:11:45I hope I didn't
1:11:48kill your spirit about games industry
1:11:51because as I said the developers, the
1:11:55designers,
1:11:56the writers I worked with were always
1:11:59wonderful people.
1:12:01Working with them was always a lot of
1:12:04fun. All right, it's some other things
1:12:07that were problematic. And quite
1:12:10frankly, to be honest, I don't know how
1:12:14different it would be if you were in
1:12:16another industry in Turkey anyway. So,
1:12:20it's our culture a little bit to
1:12:25take advantage of workers
1:12:28unfortunately. So, and the world is not
1:12:32always very a fair place. So,
1:12:36there's not much to else to be said
1:12:38about that.
1:12:39As I said, I hope I did not break your
1:12:42spirit about this. But let's move on to
1:12:46the steps of production, right? Because
1:12:50that is more fun and I will just go
1:12:52about it for about a few minutes. I will
1:12:55give you the basic steps because
1:12:58uh we worked into this first workflow
1:13:00and pipeline which will definitely come
1:13:02up in the exam. All right, I repeat
1:13:04again.
1:13:06So, I just flipped the order a little
1:13:08bit, but that's okay.
1:13:12So, let's move from here. Wait a second.
1:13:15It's an eraser.
1:13:17Hey guys, check out my new camera. Oh,
1:13:19no. This isn't the camera. That's a WD
1:13:22movie if you have seen it. So, this is
1:13:25kind of something that won't come in the
1:13:28exam. So, it's red stars. I will not ask
1:13:30this. Okay.
1:13:34So but these are important.
1:13:37What are the steps of development?
1:13:49This is the we started making a game.
1:13:52Now what section of things, right? So
1:13:56how do you move through it? Because if
1:13:58you are a very small team, two people,
1:14:01four people up to six people, you can
1:14:05manage by not having any plan. You can
1:14:07communicate, you can meet over zoom like
1:14:10this or Google meets or you can meet in
1:14:12the game lab for example and you can
1:14:15work through stuff and I don't know if
1:14:18you have taken any group projects
1:14:22but you will and then you will kind of
1:14:25see what I mean even in four people
1:14:27communication will be a mess because for
1:14:31example I I gave
1:14:34game design studio once four people
1:14:37So four people teams I asked for three
1:14:39but some people asked for four. I said
1:14:41okay and there is always one person who
1:14:44is completely clueless about what's
1:14:47being done. So if you have another thing
1:14:50for you for your future work
1:14:54if you are told to make a group project
1:14:57two people
1:15:00wonderful you can work together no
1:15:02problems. three people,
1:15:07two people will make the project, one
1:15:10people will just be there and not
1:15:12contribute.
1:15:14If you have four or more people,
1:15:19if you have four people, two people will
1:15:21make the project, carry it. One people
1:15:24will kind of contribute. One person will
1:15:27be completely absent and will come at
1:15:30the last minute just to present.
1:15:34Don't be this person. If you have five
1:15:36plus, you can add to these two. This
1:15:41will not change
1:15:43no matter how large the group is. Two
1:15:45people will carry it. You if you're
1:15:47lucky, you will have more of these kind
1:15:49of helps out. But there will always be
1:15:52people who don't do anything. Don't
1:15:54identify them and don't take them in
1:15:56your group. Now, in light of that, our
1:15:59steps of development
1:16:01in order in order to be able to finish
1:16:06things. Okay. First what we have is
1:16:09conceptualization.
1:16:16We also call this ideiation
1:16:21where everything starts and you don't
1:16:24touch anything yet. You are just
1:16:28creating the idea. All right, we will
1:16:31look into that. And then we have
1:16:33something called pre-production.
1:16:38You are not again making the game.
1:16:43Actually, you are setting up the things
1:16:46you will need to make the game. Right?
1:16:50Then comes the meat of it, the
1:16:52production.
1:16:56You will spend a lot of time here. You
1:16:59will make the game. And then comes the
1:17:01step of post production.
1:17:06Now for us this means something a little
1:17:09bit different than movies and TV because
1:17:11in post-production means in t in movies
1:17:13you shoot the movie that is the
1:17:15production and then you edit and do
1:17:17stuff that is the post-production for us
1:17:20you make the game you release the game
1:17:23and then you will have to maintain the
1:17:25game
1:17:27okay especially if you're in mobile so
1:17:31let's go through them in order. Let's
1:17:35start with it.
1:17:38Now,
1:17:40we will probably leave at
1:17:42conceptualization today and move to the
1:17:45rest of them next week. So, let me just
1:17:48bring an arrow here. Okay. So,
1:17:54what is our goal
1:17:56when we are doing this? The goal is to
1:17:59turn an idea into a defined vision.
1:18:05and not end. Turn an idea
1:18:12into
1:18:14defined
1:18:16vision. So the basically you you have an
1:18:20idea or even in at this stage you find
1:18:23an idea because sometimes you just sit
1:18:25down and say we we should make a game.
1:18:29We don't know what it is yet. Let's
1:18:30bring in ideas. Let's find something.
1:18:33Okay. And then at the end of this stage,
1:18:39wait a second, that is not vision, that
1:18:42is vision.
1:18:45Defined
1:18:47vision. So a vision in Turkish it is
1:18:51vision as you know. It means you know
1:18:54what you are going to do right? You have
1:18:57decided and you have decided on the
1:18:59basic things that will drive this kind
1:19:02of like what what genre of game shall we
1:19:05be doing? What platform we are doing it
1:19:07for? Are we going to do it on for Steam,
1:19:10for a console? Are we targeting Switch
1:19:12as well? You decide on those things. So,
1:19:15who is our audience? Do we want hardcore
1:19:18FPS players? Do we want cozy puzzle
1:19:21players or do we want people who just
1:19:23like horses? For example, you can define
1:19:26as wider or as niche as you want. And
1:19:30what will be our unique selling points?
1:19:34Why would people want to play this game?
1:19:38Because it has very good polish. Because
1:19:40it has a very good story, because it has
1:19:42a unique mechanic that nobody else has
1:19:44done before, anything. Okay. So, uh this
1:19:50is our goal.
1:19:54And
1:19:58I won't go into the outputs yet because
1:20:02but the reason we have this is the
1:20:06prototyping here is cheap.
1:20:09So this
1:20:13stage is
1:20:16cheap. What do I mean by cheap? You only
1:20:20spend your time. You don't spend your
1:20:22money on it. You don't have to license
1:20:26any engine. You don't have to buy any
1:20:28assets or you don't produce anything
1:20:31because you can say oh sir but when I do
1:20:34a 3D model I'm also investing just time
1:20:37nothing else but you produce something
1:20:40when you do that and if that is unusable
1:20:43you wasted that time right because this
1:20:46takes a lot of time making a 3D model
1:20:49but
1:20:51you can sit down and cons complete an
1:20:55idealization ideas ideiation
1:20:58stage in maybe a few hours, right? You
1:21:02do it, you say, "Oh, okay. This is this
1:21:04idea is not very good actually." And
1:21:06then you scrap it and you find another
1:21:08one. Or you do a brainstorming session.
1:21:11You just
1:21:13throw ideas of ideas, you write them on
1:21:16a whiteboard, you cross them over, you
1:21:18talk about it, and you come up with come
1:21:20up with something. Right? Now,
1:21:23what would happen if you don't do this?
1:21:26Because this sounds very natural and you
1:21:28can say, "Oh, but we what if we don't do
1:21:30that?" If you don't do that because you
1:21:33have a very good idea, right? You think
1:21:36about, "All right, this is going to be
1:21:37about a shooter game where you are a
1:21:40space cowboy looking for your lost space
1:21:43cows because you need space milk.
1:21:47It might be a very good idea to you,
1:21:50but skipping this step will prevent you
1:21:54from having the defined things, the
1:21:57vision that you need. And this stage is
1:22:00cheap. If you if you fail here, the idea
1:22:05is not good. You just start again.
1:22:06Right? So
1:22:10what do we do here? In this stage, we
1:22:14create ideas, right?
1:22:17It's basically obvious one. Oh, I have
1:22:20an idea. How about we do this? And oh,
1:22:22in this game, we can do that. But then
1:22:26you do something called market research.
1:22:32Now this sounds very technical and
1:22:35business but it's actually trying to see
1:22:38what's out there already because this
1:22:41applies for everything but you are
1:22:43putting out a product right so you're
1:22:46trying to see if it has been done before
1:22:51right
1:22:55and there is a there is something that
1:22:57people get wrong here because sometimes
1:23:00people look at this and say oh it's been
1:23:02done before, we shouldn't do this. Well,
1:23:04sometimes the fact that it has been done
1:23:07before and became successful means
1:23:10people want that. There is demand for
1:23:12it, right? So, but you are putting out a
1:23:16product and you want to see what others
1:23:19have done. Now, in business, you could
1:23:22call them competitors, right? But in
1:23:25creative space we can rather call them
1:23:28our peers what other developers what
1:23:30other studios did about this because you
1:23:35can learn things from them. You can copy
1:23:38over their mechanics or you can be
1:23:40inspired or you can say we will be doing
1:23:43something completely different. Right?
1:23:47So here more than market the research
1:23:51part is important. you do a research and
1:23:55see
1:23:57what else is out there,
1:24:02right? Sometimes you come across a niche
1:24:06that nobody has ever done before and it
1:24:09can be because of two reasons. One,
1:24:12nobody has thought of it before, which
1:24:14means you struck a gold mine. Two,
1:24:17others tried and failed, so it's
1:24:20actually a graveyard.
1:24:22Right? So you should look at good games,
1:24:26bad games, games with good reviews in
1:24:28that genre, games with bad reviews on
1:24:30that genre. Right? Because if four or
1:24:32five different people have tried that
1:24:34idea and all those games failed, now you
1:24:37have to look did they make bad games or
1:24:39is the idea itself not appealing to
1:24:42people. Right now sometimes you just say
1:24:46I want to make this game because I want
1:24:48to make it. I don't care about being
1:24:50successful. I don't want people I don't
1:24:51care about people playing it. I don't
1:24:53care about making money. That's also
1:24:55something.
1:24:57Then maybe you will skip the research.
1:24:59But if you want your game to have some
1:25:03kind of traction, success, you can call
1:25:06it money, you can call it number of
1:25:08players, you can call it above the
1:25:09award, anything. If you want your game
1:25:12to be successful by your definition, you
1:25:15need to do research. Okay.
1:25:18And the next one is you define on your
1:25:22target audience.
1:25:26Now this is more about again making your
1:25:29game successful because who will play
1:25:32this game? Am I targeting dentists who
1:25:36have been thrown out of dentist school?
1:25:38Is that my target audience? Then it's a
1:25:42pretty small one, right? or am I
1:25:44targeting for example
1:25:4718 to 35
1:25:50year old females?
1:25:53one of the most dominant
1:25:55target audiences in mobile gaming for
1:25:57example because before mobile gaming
1:26:00became a thing before 2010s
1:26:04it was thought that gaming audience was
1:26:06dominantly male and young right young
1:26:09males are the ones who play games then
1:26:11mobile games came along and people
1:26:14realized companies realized wow women
1:26:16play games too and they played a lot
1:26:20right it's convenient because It's on
1:26:23their phone, they can do it on their
1:26:24free time. Women don't generally, I'm
1:26:26not generalizing, by the way. This is
1:26:28the market. Okay?
1:26:30In general, women around the world don't
1:26:33sit behind a computer or a console to
1:26:35play games in general.
1:26:39Now, that is changing with the current
1:26:42demographic. You as the coming
1:26:44generation, you are changing this. I'm
1:26:46talking about the 40, 50 year olds right
1:26:48now, right? But once mobile phones came
1:26:51about, people realized, wait a second,
1:26:55women are playing this. And actually, if
1:26:58you're going to make a match three game,
1:27:05women are the dominant demographic. So,
1:27:09for example, a friend of mine was very
1:27:11determined to make a space themed, a
1:27:14planetary themed match three game on
1:27:17mobile.
1:27:18We could see a mile away that it was
1:27:20going to fail, right? Because
1:27:24the intersection
1:27:26of this target demographic
1:27:29and space enthusiasm is very tiny
1:27:33actually
1:27:34and I'm not trying to say I'm not trying
1:27:38to compartmentalize people or set
1:27:41stereotypes. When you are talking about
1:27:44data, stereotype goes out the window.
1:27:47You look at data and you say, for
1:27:49example,
1:27:51only 3% of my players are using Mac.
1:27:56So, I will not be updating my game or
1:27:59porting my game to Mac because
1:28:03I will probably spend 20% of my time
1:28:07doing this, but I will gain only 3% of
1:28:11my player base. So, it's not worth it,
1:28:14right? So, if you're going to do
1:28:16research or do market research or set
1:28:19your target audience, data is what you
1:28:23want.
1:28:25You don't
1:28:26Unless you are very artistically
1:28:28inclined inclined, you don't say, "I'm
1:28:30not going to exclude anyone, so I'm
1:28:32going to make sure the game will be
1:28:36played by Mac OS as well or Linux and I
1:28:39will go the extra mile to do that."
1:28:41Well, you will spend a lot of resources
1:28:42doing that. So, you have to weigh that.
1:28:46Okay.
1:28:49And
1:28:51one more thing that you decide here
1:28:53[snorts] better than later.
1:28:56You decide your core
1:29:00game play loop. Now, what does that
1:29:05mean, please?
1:29:43question. Basically, he asked, "Are
1:29:45there any websites that we can use to
1:29:48get such data?" Well, uh I will put it
1:29:52here.
1:29:55I use two of them mainly. There are many
1:29:57others by the way, but there is VG
1:30:00insights.
1:30:03This is video game insights. Sensor
1:30:05tower bought them recently. Sensor tower
1:30:07is one, but sensor tower is very
1:30:09strictly mobile.
1:30:13So, I don't like them that much. There's
1:30:15inside and there's gamalytic.
1:30:20Okay, let me actually show you those
1:30:22two.
1:30:25arrange my screens.
1:30:29Look at my pedals because my feet are
1:30:31not all the time all the time. Let's
1:30:33share the screen.
1:30:35And as you can see, I have them two here
1:30:39already in my shortcuts. So I use this
1:30:43one for example. Give me a name. Give me
1:30:44a game that has been successful
1:30:46recently. Let's look at vampire
1:30:48survivors. It's not recently but you are
1:30:52making a survivor like okay
1:30:59come on don't fail me now I'm trying to
1:31:02make a presentation here please you are
1:31:05embarrassing me in front of my students
1:31:11wonderful let's look at this one while
1:31:13we wait for example this one has top
1:31:16games once again let's look at Wallheim
1:31:17yeah because This was five five people
1:31:20team. One of them was a 10 year industry
1:31:23veteran, but they were still five
1:31:24people.
1:31:27Or let's look at a Turkish game, Bomb
1:31:30Banana. You might you might have heard
1:31:31of it,
1:31:33right?
1:31:35So, for example, they made about $4.6
1:31:38million,
1:31:40about 1 million copies
1:31:43and released about one month ago. So $5
1:31:48million in one month is not bad, right?
1:31:52I would like to make that kind of money.
1:31:53So, but players by country and average
1:31:57playtime review score and you can
1:32:00upgrade
1:32:02for and this also has Steam DB links as
1:32:05well, right? And let's look at it here
1:32:07too.
1:32:12And this website, by the way, none of
1:32:14these are hard numbers because this one
1:32:17says, for example, 5.1 million. This one
1:32:20says 4.6 million. I call that pretty
1:32:23good, whichever one it is. All right.
1:32:25And generally, my understanding is that
1:32:28these are little bit downplayed numbers.
1:32:30So maybe it's closer to 6 million,
1:32:32something like that.
1:32:34But you can see a lot of things and I
1:32:37haven't subscribed to any of these but
1:32:40you can pay them to get more data. These
1:32:43two I use a lot and for example another
1:32:46one is supermarket simulator.
1:32:49You know we as a country are very good
1:32:52at making simulator games. So this one
1:32:54made about $40 million.
1:33:02Supermarket simulator.
1:33:04Okay, some of the names here are
1:33:05disturbing.
1:33:08Here it is.
1:33:11So, $34.2 million premium revenue, but
1:33:15the units sold, average play time. So,
1:33:18you can see pretty much
1:33:20everything you would at first want to
1:33:22see. So, you can look at look for these
1:33:25kind of games, right? You can look at
1:33:28look for them in Steam, for example.
1:33:34Look at the tags, find similar games,
1:33:37but there is some bias that you
1:33:40should be aware of when doing this. Now,
1:33:44for example, you look at right now
1:33:47incremental games are very popular. All
1:33:49right, people make incremental games and
1:33:52it's actually a good starting point
1:33:54because they are relatively simple to
1:33:55make. Of course, you can go as
1:33:57complicated as you want, but if you look
1:34:00at, for example,
1:34:08Max Manos, you look at this one.
1:34:11Hund
1:34:13okay, it's not much compared to 6
1:34:15million, but it's pretty good since it's
1:34:17a very simple game. All right. Or you
1:34:19you say
1:34:21feed the
1:34:24reactor
1:34:28H 350K. Very good. All right. Or another
1:34:32one for example, one that I can think of
1:34:35off the top of my head
1:34:39a game about
1:34:42was it about asteroids? I don't
1:34:44remember. But the thing is you find six
1:34:47or seven very successful games like this
1:34:49and you say, "Oh, the demand is here,
1:34:52right? And it's easy to make this. If I
1:34:54can make such a game, I will make a lot
1:34:56of money." But you probably don't
1:34:59research the 200 games that have failed
1:35:03in this genre.
1:35:05So don't always look at the successes.
1:35:08All right? Also look at the failed ones.
1:35:11One of the things I did when I I started
1:35:14designing my own incremental game was
1:35:17for example, this is something you can
1:35:18do. I went to Steam, I went to the game
1:35:22games
1:35:24and I went to their reveals.
1:35:27I had AI write a Python script that will
1:35:32scrape all of these. You can do that,
1:35:35but you have to be careful. If you send
1:35:37too many requests, Steammate might block
1:35:40you or ban you. So, you have to ask AI
1:35:42to be mindful of that. What I did was
1:35:45take all the negative reviews
1:35:48and make an analysis of them. I told AI,
1:35:51take a look at these negative reviews
1:35:53and please tell me what gamers did not
1:35:56like about this, right? And it gave me a
1:35:59lot of insight because
1:36:02positive reviews are not very helpful.
1:36:04They will generally say it's a great
1:36:06game. Go play it. But negative reviews
1:36:09do give you some insight about what
1:36:11doesn't work about the game. It's very
1:36:14valuable.
1:36:16Sometimes you will say, "Okay, I will
1:36:18change this." And sometimes you will
1:36:21say, "All right, I plan to do that as
1:36:23well, but I don't think it will be. I
1:36:24think the reviewers are wrong." The
1:36:26gamer is not always right by the way
1:36:29because if you
1:36:32I think there's something Henry Ford
1:36:34said about automobiles.
1:36:37He said something it might not be Henry
1:36:39Ford but I think it is attributed to him
1:36:42a lot. He says if I asked people what
1:36:45they wanted they would tell me they want
1:36:48faster horses.
1:36:50So
1:36:53for
1:37:08whatever. So these are the websites
1:37:12that I use and you can use them as well.
1:37:16But the final thing that I will tell you
1:37:19in this one is wait a second where are
1:37:22we? Core gameplay loop. And this part is
1:37:26actually really important.
1:37:29Why don't we decide this later on? Why
1:37:31do we decide it here? Core game play
1:37:33loop is the steps
1:37:37player will
1:37:40do over
1:37:43and over in the game. This must be fun.
1:37:51For example, in Supermarket Simulator,
1:37:53what you do is you buy products, you
1:37:55stock the shelves, you go to the cashier
1:37:58and sell the products, you buy more
1:38:00products, you stock the shelves, you
1:38:03sell them, you buy more products, you
1:38:04see, right? So, it's buy
1:38:09and shelving is very important
1:38:13in the game. You put them on the shelves
1:38:17and you sell and you buy more. This is
1:38:19the core game loop. You can rearrange
1:38:22the furniture. That is a secondary part
1:38:25of it. The main thing that players will
1:38:29do and have to enjoy is this. So why do
1:38:32I enjoy Supermarket Simulator that much?
1:38:36Maybe it's the increase of money that
1:38:39you see here when you do that, right?
1:38:42Maybe they made this really satisfac
1:38:44satisfactory. So this loop and the
1:38:47shelving is maybe very good, right? Or
1:38:50maybe when they sell it, the kaching
1:38:52sound makes them very happy. We don't
1:38:54know. You can do research on that,
1:38:56right? But this is the core game loop of
1:38:58Supermarket Simulator that made them
1:39:01around $40 million. Now, this didn't do
1:39:04it alone, right? But let's face it, the
1:39:08game doesn't have very good graphics,
1:39:10but the graphics is not the thing that
1:39:12simulator players are looking for.
1:39:15Obviously,
1:39:16otherwise they would abandon the game
1:39:18saying these the graphics are not very
1:39:20good. They are basic Unity graphics. We
1:39:22won't play this. They didn't do that.
1:39:24They played it. Right? So, and there are
1:39:27other simulator games like simulator
1:39:29games are
1:39:31by genre games with bad graphics
1:39:35or let's say they are not top graphics,
1:39:38right? But apparently that target
1:39:41audience doesn't care about it that
1:39:43much, right? So I guess it makes sense.
1:39:47These are the four things that we are
1:39:49looking to
1:39:52decide
1:39:54in the conceptualization stage
1:39:58and this will create you a document. I
1:40:02will talk about it next week.
1:40:04me any questions you have for me
1:40:07regarding anything we talked about
1:40:10today.
1:40:16Nothing.
1:40:18I will prepare some soundboard to play
1:40:21some
1:40:24twiddle weed sounds for when you stay
1:40:27completely silent
1:40:29which you will do a lot.
1:40:32I mean that comes with the territory. I
1:40:34shouldn't have taught online if I wanted
1:40:37you to engage. But then again, I cannot
1:40:40decide. Now here it comes with the
1:40:42territory only. I see only two people
1:40:45right now. Meta and Geminina. Thank you
1:40:46by the way.
1:40:48The others are black white names on
1:40:52black screens. Well, that's pretty much
1:40:55the reality of online teaching.
1:40:58The feeling of talking to a wall, which
1:41:00drives me into a very deep depression,
1:41:02by the way. Thank you. But it would be
1:41:05so much worse if I was in a classroom
1:41:10looking at you and I had that blank look
1:41:13on your faces like this or see somebody
1:41:15doing something like
1:41:19because those things also happen and
1:41:21that is a lot more heartbreaking. So I
1:41:25hope you don't do that to your live
1:41:27teachers
1:41:29right here. At least I don't see you
1:41:31Nikita. I would love to see a blue one
1:41:33if you can please. Anyway,
1:41:36uh but there's that. So
1:41:39I will see you next week. Nikita, you
1:41:42will do it next week. Okay, I'm closing
1:41:44up right now. So uh next week we will
1:41:48continue where we left. We are going to
1:41:50look at the other stages of production
1:41:53namely pre-production, production and
1:41:55post-production. They are all production
1:41:56and that those will come in the exam.
1:41:59This one also will ideation stage but
1:42:02these are the important bits. All right.
1:42:04Okay. Then I will put the recording up
1:42:07on YouTube hopefully today and the
1:42:09whiteboard as well. Now it's black but
1:42:12we call it a whiteboard because you
1:42:14already have a blackboard at school. I
1:42:16don't want them to be confused. So I
1:42:18will put the whiteboard there. So then
1:42:21see you next week and please go play
1:42:23some games that are not LOL or Valerant.
1:42:26You can you have to play various games
1:42:29to be a good designer. You have to see
1:42:31different things to be a good designer
1:42:34and a good developer. Goodbye and thank
1:42:37you.

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