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0:01Good morning everyone. This is DGD 205
0:04game development pipelines and we are on
0:06week four. It is the 15th of October
0:092026.
0:10So I I assume
0:16face toface classes are canceled already
0:18but I don't know how many online classes
0:20are being done but we are doing them
0:22because we are a little bit behind. So,
0:24I'm sorry I couldn't give you the time
0:26to sleep this morning, but I mean we are
0:30online. We can connect to our computers.
0:32So, education continues without
0:35stopping. Anyway, so let's take a look
0:38at what we did last week. I'm going to
0:41bring that up.
0:43Not this one. This one. Yes.
0:47And let's put it up on screen.
0:50I can zoom in so you can see. So we
0:52talked about the pre-production stage
0:54last the week before we talked about
0:56ideation and last week we talked about
0:59pre-production
1:01uh how we planned about things pipeline
1:04planning and then we talked about all
1:07the documents game design document etc
1:10that we do on this stage and we also
1:12talked about the scope. This is the most
1:15This was the most important part because
1:18scope is basically what you will put in
1:20your game and just as importantly what
1:24you will cut out because most of the
1:26time you have a lot of amazing ideas. we
1:29should put this, we should put that,
1:31everything, blah blah blah. And probably
1:33your game, you think more mechanics will
1:36make your game better. But actually, if
1:40those mechanics don't serve the game
1:42play, it's going to make your game
1:44bogged down. The player will get bored
1:47or confused or both. And we don't want
1:49that. So, this week we are going to
1:53continue with production. Let me
1:57get rid of this because we talked about
2:00this already,
2:02but I will repeat.
2:05Wait a second.
2:10Of course,
2:13I so many people recommend this program,
2:17but I'm getting more and more annoyed by
2:19it. That's what happens.
2:23Well, here is the thing. This is
2:25developed by one person and it's their
2:28program. It's open source. I I cannot
2:30crit criticize them in any way because
2:33I'm not paying for it. I can criticize
2:35it obviously wrong thing. So I cannot
2:39tell them to do things one way or
2:41another because I'm not their boss. I'm
2:44not paying them to do this. They are
2:46doing this out of their own interest. I
2:49can give suggestions. I can give
2:51criticisms which I did. But in the end
2:54it is their program. It is not I'm not
2:58as I said I don't have any stake in it.
3:01So I don't have any say ultimately in it
3:04which is the same for the games by the
3:06way. So you are making your game the
3:11well there is this interesting relation
3:13here because when you're making the game
3:17now
3:19this program is called Arnote
3:22and this thing is open source
3:25open source is not that important but
3:27more importantly this thing is free okay
3:32I'm not paying for it I'm not a paying
3:33customer which means
3:36As I said, this guy,
3:41they can do whatever they want.
3:49I'm writing bad on purpose because I
3:51won't be asking this in the exam. So,
3:52but your game, let's let's call it your
3:56game,
3:58right? You will probably sell this for,
4:01I don't know, $15. And uh interestingly
4:05I don't think it's makes sense but
4:08dollar sign comes before in English they
4:10put it after the currency but in English
4:13you or you will sell it for $5 or maybe
4:15you will sell it for $3. Maybe you will
4:18go bonkers and try to sell it for $60. I
4:20don't know. I I'm not your boss again.
4:22But when you're selling it like this
4:25and people are paying for it now there's
4:28an interesting balance there. right now.
4:31Do players have a say?
4:46Do you think they have a say in how you
4:48develop your game? What things you put
4:50in? What things you take out?
4:56I'm I'm looking for your opinion here.
4:58And this is also this is also about
5:00scope. So this is basically a
5:03continuation of last week. And as I
5:05said, scope is the most important thing.
5:08You will decide on your game and the
5:11thing that you will probably get wrong a
5:14couple of times before you understand
5:17what you are trying to do in your game
5:20and as a game studio or developer
5:22whatever. So this topic is important.
5:24You can look up what constitutes
5:26production and post-production any
5:27anywhere on the internet. But this scope
5:30detection scope setting the scope is
5:33important. So what do you think? Let's
5:35discuss this.
5:39>> I would say they don't have anything to
5:41say until I finish the game first and
5:45then maybe um I removed a mechanic they
5:48liked in the game for no reason.
5:50>> So
5:51>> they can
5:52>> we are talking about early access here,
5:55right? Because until you finish the
5:57game, if they are able to play it, we
5:59are talking about some form of early
6:01access.
6:02>> No, like what I um like before the game
6:07actually comes out and it's it has a
6:10playable loop like I I managed to
6:14complete what I was planning to do. Like
6:16I made the core loop.
6:18>> Mhm.
6:19>> Uh before that they might not understand
6:22how the game works yet because they are
6:23not working on it. they might just look
6:25at it from outside and don't know much
6:28about it.
6:29>> So that's the thing. Do they see the
6:30game until you finish it? That's kind of
6:34the problem then, right? Because
6:36>> maybe just a video or maybe a demo that
6:40only shows one part of the game. I don't
6:42know.
6:42>> So here is the thing now. Some processes
6:45that we go through and you all know this
6:48by being gamers, but we have a process
6:52called alpha
6:56and beta, right? And normally in game
6:59development in the olden days, there was
7:02something called the golden disc.
7:07Golden disc was the final medium,
7:12the final version of the game
7:19written to a disc.
7:23It might be
7:25a CD, it might be a DVD, or it might
7:28even be a floppy back in the days
7:31and sent to the factory,
7:38right? So, this is very important
7:42because back in those days, you sent
7:45your code or disk to the factory and
7:48they replicated it and it was sold out.
7:51So the distribution method was with a
7:53disk. It had to be with a disk, right?
7:56There was no internet or other
7:58distribution methods. So alpha means
8:02very early
8:06playable
8:08state
8:16and this is
8:18late playable state. So kind of
8:22kind of representing the release.
8:34Wait a second.
8:42So, and normally again in the '9s up
8:47until mid 2000s, let's say the internet
8:51got widespread,
8:54these two were not visible to the
8:56players, right? What would happen was
9:00you would release alpha and you would
9:02in-house in your studio. You would have
9:04alpha and beta and then you would
9:07prepare the golden disc. And actually
9:08there is a wonderful
9:11think. Let me see.
9:17Let's see if we I can find that. That's
9:19an there's an image.
9:21Here it is. So you all know
9:28uh No Man's Sky, right? This is this is
9:30the No Man's Sky team. This is Shan
9:32Murray. And this is This is not Vin XP,
9:35of course. It's a Photoshop. I just
9:37thought I had the real thing. But here
9:40it is.
9:45It's It's on a DVD, Blu-ray disc. So,
9:48it's a lot of thing, but this is a
9:49golden I mean, they did it symbolically
9:54most probably.
9:56So, but this is the golden disc. So this
9:59is the finished version of the game. Now
10:03back in those days again
10:06once you release the game you release
10:08the game. There was no way to patch the
10:12game and then deliver it to the players
10:15right. So
10:18uh there was no practical way to do it.
10:20There was no distribution channel. So
10:22once you release the game, you release
10:24the game. So old games had their bugs
10:28baked in which is why these steps were
10:31very important and all throughout there
10:34there was this thing called QA. It is
10:36still there
10:38but these days we have the mentality of
10:42so this is
10:48from minus infinity to around
10:51let's say 2000s
10:54right development
11:01but then we kind of got and after that
11:06you published expansions
11:17and maybe expansions fixed some of the
11:19bugs you previously had, but you had no
11:21other way. I mean, the only way you
11:24could deliver a fix to your game was to
11:29you could I mean,
11:32you can sell an expansion, convince
11:34people to buy it if your game is good
11:36enough, and maybe that one can fix some
11:39bugs. Some I have never heard
11:43distributing it via
11:47magazines or something as promotion.
11:50I've never heard of it. So, but this is
11:53from minus infinity to 2000. So, maybe
11:56let's call this
11:5980s or 90s
12:01because you might confuse that image
12:03there. So from 80s
12:07to 2000s it was like this
12:11and then with the distribution of
12:13internet or rather the birth of steam
12:16because steam spearheaded this and you
12:19know
12:21Gabe Neville is a genius in that sense.
12:23He is the guy that
12:25also
12:27kickstarted distribution of DirectX
12:30because you see he was working at
12:32Microsoft.
12:37He was working at Microsoft
12:41and he realized
12:43computers that they worked with had more
12:47Doom than Windows. So people installed
12:52Doom on their computer on the machines
12:56then Microsoft Windows and back in the
12:59day Windows was not a complete operating
13:02system. You had DOSs and on top of that
13:05Windows was like a graphical UI on that.
13:09Windows 95 was the first operating
13:12system that run the entire computer.
13:15Before that, you had a command line and
13:18you would type win and press enter and
13:21you would enter Windows 3.2. Okay. So,
13:26but this guy said, "Wait a minute. This
13:29gaming thing appears to be big, so why
13:34don't we go big on it?" I don't know if
13:38he planned the Yach Leviathan back then.
13:42Maybe he did not, but he said we should
13:45bring Doom to Windows. We should make
13:47sure Doom can run in Windows. So,
13:50Windows should be a
13:54back in back in those days operating
13:56system was for business. It was used to
13:59run spreadsheets or other construct.
14:01There was a little solitire games for
14:04entertainment, but that was it. But it
14:06was never thought as a gaming medium,
14:09the operating system. It was just
14:11something to launch of business apps. So
14:15Gabe Neville said we can make Windows a
14:19gaming machine type thing, right? So he
14:22said we should create some libraries to
14:25make it happen. First they ported Doom
14:26to Windows and it exploded in popularity
14:30and he said wait let's make it easier
14:33for other people to make games on
14:35Windows.
14:53And what do you need for that? You need
14:56w you need to give Windows a good GPU
14:59capability or game processing
15:02capability. Let's say not just GPU. And
15:05for that you need to give developers an
15:08easy way to do it. They should not be
15:11lost in Windows
15:14code, right? Or methods of doing things.
15:17So they created DirectX.
15:26DirectX is an API that allows developers
15:30to tap into Windows resources
15:32effectively.
15:34So it after this it was a lot easier for
15:37people to make games that would run
15:40natively on Windows. Gabe Neville did
15:43not develop this himself but he as far
15:46as I know he came up with the idea and
15:48he led it for some time before he left
15:52and said nah do my own thing in Miles
15:55Morales's words. So he said and he went
15:59and
16:01founded a computer a thing called Valve
16:06and Valve released Steam
16:10as it does in real life. I think this
16:12was around 2004. At the time, people
16:16were enraged gamers because they bought
16:18Halfife 1
16:21and now they had to download a software
16:24to get to their game. Why couldn't it
16:26be?
16:28People did not like it that much.
16:30gamers, I have to download an additional
16:32software to play my game. Are you
16:34kidding me? Was the general consensus.
16:38But we know how it played out well in
16:41the long run for them. This was the And
16:44this has something to do with what we
16:46have actually here because after some
16:49time
16:52we had that
16:55digital distribution thing, right? We
16:57still had our alpha
17:00We still had our beta and we still had
17:04our release no longer golden disc.
17:08So release over the internet
17:14and then we had patches. We could be
17:17able to deote
17:20deliver patches to people, right? And
17:23then we released DLC's. As you know this
17:27stands for downloadable content.
17:38Okay. So wait a second.
17:41Okay.
17:43So we had a there is still disk here.
17:46But even if you buy something
17:49with on a disc you can release you can
17:52patch the game. Actually, let's put it
17:55here. Oh, sorry.
18:00Because let's see. This is the
18:08patches over internet
18:11and this is
18:13internet
18:16or
18:18disk, right? And then you released DLC's
18:23which were downloadable content.
18:32And here it is. This is the important
18:34part. You could patch your game now.
18:37And this went on for about how long?
18:42I would say now this is a blur, right?
18:45But from the early 2000s,
18:51do you know what will change this
18:53structure?
18:55Somewhere around 20110,
18:58right? Actually almost mid 2010s, but
19:01let's write it like this.
19:06How would 2000 crisis affect this
19:09Nikita?
19:10Now it might be everything is connected
19:13but I was thinking of something else
19:18but your timeline more or less checks
19:21out because there was something that was
19:25not technically invented but it was born
19:29after
19:312010. It was born actually in 2007.
19:36Well no no no I'm going to talk about
19:38something else. So less money did not
19:40affect these things. Something else that
19:46so I guess you are early or late 2000
19:52born people. So what I'm going to tell
19:55you was with you for all of your lives
19:59almost all of your lives that you could
20:01use a computer or a phone. So this might
20:04come naturally to you. But in the
20:05between
20:07we had the rise of something called
20:09social media.
20:14And it was actually technically there
20:17was other trials before that. But the
20:21thing that truly kicked this off was
20:24Facebook
20:27in 2007.
20:29Facebook first started out as only
20:32something for what was that? What was
20:34that? Zak
20:35University, Harvard. No, I don't think
20:37it's Harvard. Whatever for those
20:41students, it was a social network for
20:44them and then they expanded to entire US
20:47universities and then they expanded to
20:50entire world universities and then they
20:52opened it up to the world. So when I
20:55joined Facebook, you needed to have an
20:58Edu account.
21:01Harvard. Okay. So it was first Harvard
21:05and then US universities
21:10and then world universities.
21:27And then the world
21:29and this world part
21:32is where it got out of hand. This is
21:35where almost every DA for example in
21:39Turkey joined Facebook and started
21:41making comments about just about
21:42everything. And for a while, Facebook
21:45was
21:46very unique and very refreshing and very
21:49connecting and you could poke people
21:51that I don't know you probably I don't
21:54know if you have ever been to Facebook,
21:56right? I don't maybe you don't have a
21:58Facebook account even so but when first
22:01Facebook first came out you could poke
22:03each other. There was a small icon like
22:05poke and it would say meta poked you and
22:08you would poke meta back and you it
22:09would start poke wars. There was even a
22:11game called Poke Wars and we invented
22:15Turks invented something called Osman
22:17Pis.
22:18So, and you could send each other tea or
22:21simmit or offer anyone. It was it was
22:24just crazy. And there was a lot of back
22:27and forth with
22:30the thing we call in Turkish lma. Oh,
22:33there was lots of it. So, let me just
22:37ah ah ah don't do this to me.
22:40I don't want to zoom out. So here I'm
22:43going to do a very smart maneuver.
22:47See I could take all of it and I will ah
22:51oh it does that. That is at least partly
22:56refreshing. So but in the meantime we
22:59had something called social media. So
23:01now what did this bring us in terms of
23:05what changed?
23:08It comes to today. So how is it today
23:11then?
23:12>> Now we can see the alpha and beta too.
23:15>> Mhm. So these are let's put a note here
23:23still
23:25invisible to
23:28players. Now, now we don't in those days
23:34developers define defined alpha and beta
23:38and it was not set in stone. It it
23:40didn't mean this part means alpha, this
23:42part means beta. But they told
23:44themselves we are on alpha, we are on
23:46beta and everyone pretty much understood
23:48what was going on. Alpha, it's in early
23:50development stage. So there are some
23:53mechanics are not in place, there are
23:55bugs and things break. And in beta it
23:58means
24:00pretty much all mechanics are in place.
24:02There are still bugs but they are being
24:04worked on. So the game is basically
24:06playable but not the full experience
24:08yet.
24:10So now today technically we still have
24:15alpha
24:17and we have beta and we have release.
24:22But now
24:26actually let me put it this way.
24:30We have alpha.
24:32Why did I erase something that I was
24:34going to write again? I have no idea. We
24:37have alpha
24:39and here we have beta and we have
24:42something now called called early
24:44access.
24:51and we have release
24:54and we have DLC's. If you noticed, we
24:57don't have patches because now this
25:00entire workflow or pipeline has become a
25:05jumbled mess because we have game gamer
25:10input anywhere on it if you open it to
25:14the gamers. So the early access is
25:17actually anywhere can be anywhere
25:20between alpha and release.
25:28It should be here
25:36but it's not. So, uh,
25:40actual early access
25:43can start any time. So, some teams
25:48release their games in early access even
25:51if in it it's in a technically alpha
25:53state, right? Some release it in a beta
25:56state. And
25:59ideally, early access should be as close
26:02to release as possible. And the actual
26:07reason for this is first of all
26:12a very financial reason to fund
26:15development.
26:21And second, to get player feedback
26:29because you are still developing the
26:30game and you get player input to steer
26:33your game in a certain direction. You
26:35are curious about what people think. Um,
26:37let me just adjust my clock because I
26:40realized I had not.
26:49Hey, by the way, a quick note. I will
26:51probably release last year's note to you
26:54as well because we are getting more and
26:57more behind on those things. I really
26:59want to go into
27:02version control next week, but I think
27:05we can do
27:07we'll see. All right. I I can release
27:10some notes for you to study as well.
27:12Well, what are you going to do? So, but
27:15the point of early access is to fund
27:18development and to get player feedback.
27:21There is a hidden third one some people
27:24use
27:26to
27:28make
27:30money
27:31with a half
27:36finished
27:38game
27:40and run with the money.
27:43Don't do this. It has been done before.
27:46There are numerous examples which is why
27:50gamers, some gamers very vocally don't
27:53trust early access and they are right.
27:55They paid premium money for some games
27:58and they got burned. So,
28:02but the thing is let's call this
28:102010s
28:12now. So, right now game gamers are
28:18involved in game development a lot more.
28:22Right? This doesn't mean they know more
28:24about game development. It just means
28:26they have opinions about it. This is the
28:29important part. Okay.
28:31But sometimes this this is a good thing,
28:35right? Because if you are especially if
28:37you're an indie dev, you are in contact
28:40with your community that communication
28:42is very important and it can actually be
28:45your lifeblood. Because if you have good
28:47communication, people if people feel
28:49connected to you, they will be more
28:51inclined to buy your game to support
28:55your vision. Okay. So this is community
28:58building that we have today.
29:02But sometimes there's a negative thing
29:04that happens. Some people, some
29:07developers release their game.
29:10If the game is free of bugs, it provides
29:13the full intended experience. So old
29:16school release. All right? So you
29:17release the game, there are no
29:18gamebreaking bugs. There might be minor
29:20ones, but you say, "I'm done. I'm moving
29:22on with this." Sometimes gamers take
29:25this the wrong way because they are so
29:27used to games being updated all the
29:30time, right?
29:33So, let's put something here.
29:37or gamers are so used to being stuck
29:40between here or for multiplayer games
29:44having updates
29:49when they don't see this.
30:04They say
30:08The game is dead.
30:13It's actually the game is complete,
30:16right?
30:19While actually
30:22the game is complete.
30:28So there is this confusion these these
30:33days
30:35because we see so many early I'm going
30:37to show you one that I supported
30:38wholeheartedly and then the team for one
30:41reason or other I'm not judging them by
30:43the way they were very vocal on
30:48Twitter it wasn't axe back then and it
30:51is it is a game that I would very much
30:54enjoy playing and doing my making myself
30:57that so It created a lot of buzz back in
31:00the day, but then somehow they just
31:03disappeared and
31:05the
31:07Jennifer Shirley, I think the spearhead
31:10in development, one of the lead
31:11developers, she doesn't even appear on
31:14social media anymore. She got a job
31:16somewhere.
31:21I actually have the game. Let me show
31:24you.
31:29And you can see it's mixed 51%. Come on
31:32Steam, you can play. I'm not going to
31:34play you a five minute video. Don't
31:36worry. But
31:37>> hello and welcome to another video
31:38walkthrough of objects in space.
31:42This is a trailer.
31:48If it plays,
31:50I don't want to blame Steam. Is it my
31:52network connection that is slow? It
31:54might be sometimes it does because of
31:56all the range.
32:00So basically you operate a spaceship
32:05and you have all these systems and you
32:07manually have to control the systems and
32:10repair the ship by changing the
32:12components yourself. So you travel
32:13inside the ship and it's not like a
32:16space opera. So you are more like in a
32:20submarine which will probably be a more
32:23realistic thing in space. We all see
32:26from Star Wars and Star Trek that we're
32:28going to have open canopies. We will see
32:30everything and we will shoot with
32:31lasers.
32:33That will not be the reality of space
32:36because all those movies and TV shows
32:41take their reference from World War II
32:44dog fights where there were
32:49visibility and combat on a fixed back
32:54backdrop which is the ground. So you
32:56have a ground plane of reference and
32:58actually you can see the enemy because
33:00they are closed. they are 1 kilometer or
33:022 km away. You don't have to engage from
33:04a 100 or maybe 2,000 kilometers. So, it
33:09all relies on and you can even see these
33:11in games etc. Spacecraft doesn't behave
33:15like spacecraft should even more
33:18realistic ones like Elite Dangerous. I
33:20mean
33:21Frontier Games said for Elite Dangerous
33:23we wanted it to be an enjoyable
33:25experience for the player. So not too
33:27realistic because in space through
33:30moving through space movement would be a
33:32little bit boring and difficult. This is
33:36something important but these guys made
33:39it a little more more like realistic
33:41space adventure let's say.
33:48So you are using your radar
33:54and you are navigating your ships
33:57components and the messaging etc. This
34:00was a very promising game.
34:07It had some bugs, some very serious
34:11performance issues. And you would say
34:12what performance for a 2D game but there
34:14are 3D parts in it
34:17and there were UI being broken etc. And
34:21we all endured with it because this is
34:23early access and we love the premise and
34:26the developers were very vocal in social
34:28media you could communicate with them
34:30etc.
34:32So you see this okay this doesn't tell
34:35us much. Oh yeah the ship breaks. It
34:36tells us that the ship can break. So you
34:39go into your ships. This is the
34:43This is the component part. So, you go
34:45into your ship's parts, you rip out
34:47components, maybe sometimes while a
34:49pirate is shooting at you, and you try
34:51to repair your stealth module so you can
34:54go quiet, right? You try to swap
34:57batteries and modules. So, this is very,
35:00very good premise, but they just dropped
35:03off the radar
35:05at some point and we can see if they did
35:08anything else.
35:10So, no, this is their last game. I hope
35:13they're okay. But you can look at the
35:18ratings.
35:20Zero updates in years. No additional
35:22content, no improvement, right? They've
35:25abandoned this game. But let's see if
35:26it's in early access. No, it's it was
35:29released. Sometimes companies just
35:31release a game and be done with it.
35:33Something that I played a lot and is a
35:35very good example is Osiris. I had very
35:37high hopes for this game. Oh, it's not
35:39even in the store anymore. This is not
35:41it. I'll have to show it from your live
35:43from my library.
35:47Oh, serious new down. This also stirred
35:50quite an
35:53quite
35:55a stir back in the day. Your store pages
35:58here. So, let's take a look at this one.
36:05This was really promising.
36:09And these games sometimes have AAA
36:12developers attached to their names. So
36:15this guy has worked in AAA for 10 years.
36:17Well, it doesn't say much because you
36:21could you could working in AAA for 10
36:24years doesn't mean you have done a lot.
36:26Don't take it the wrong way. They must
36:28have done a lot. But maybe they just did
36:30combat development. They don't know
36:31about game design, right?
36:43I've never seen this Mac. I don't know
36:45if it exists in the game. I've never be
36:48able to go it. You can go into space,
36:49but I could never could.
36:54So, what happened with this one is it
36:56released it was it stayed in early
36:59access for about what six or seven
37:01years, something like that. And the
37:03developer changed they changed hands and
37:07one day they said we are developing this
37:09don't worry there is nothing to worry
37:10about we are developing this game but
37:12one day they just said we are releasing
37:16it
37:19early access officially complete and
37:21everyone said are you freaking kidding
37:24us because it was not complete.
37:30Please tell me you aren't just going to
37:31call it a day now. So they just put the
37:34lid on the game. They said it is
37:36complete and they moved on. There were
37:37some updates after it but I looked at it
37:39at release and I said if this is the
37:41release that you are planning I won't be
37:44looking at this game anymore. So is this
37:47even going to fix the nighttime enemy
37:49spawning issue? Right.
37:53So and there are some congrats etc etc.
37:58It's still not done. It's been six
38:00years. Please don't ever buy from this
38:02company again. Right.
38:04So if Fenix Fire is going to rest now by
38:07announcing game finished, then I must
38:09say it is not yet done. I have hoped
38:12that there won't stop improving and
38:13fixing stuff blah blah. Maybe I will
38:15give this. You cannot buy this now. It's
38:16been pulled off the stores. So I don't
38:19know how much I paid for it. I think it
38:21was when Steam was back still in Turkish
38:24Las and it was quite cheap. So, but I
38:28don't know how how long did I play this
38:3326 hours. So, I think I got my money's
38:35worth, right? And I can still test. I
38:38think I tried to play it last year. It
38:41was still unbalanced and broken, but the
38:44point still stands, right? These days
38:47what you do is
38:52some players take this the wrong way
38:55and some developers abuse the system
38:57early access. Some games stay in early
38:59access for 10 years. Some games are
39:01abandoned while in early access. Right?
39:05So but this is what we have now for
39:08release. And that's why alpha and beta
39:11and early access are not are all jumbled
39:14together. Now you can ask is there a is
39:18there a right way to do this right?
39:21Because I can hear some of you thinking
39:23it not openly asking it. So here is what
39:27I think is right because you see these
39:29are all methods to do something. Again
39:31if your idea if your goal is to just
39:34make money I'm going to show you
39:36something else because it fits this one
39:39perfectly. What was it? Star forge.
39:43And this was back in 2012 or 13 I
39:49played. Let me show you the game
39:54Star Forge.
39:56This was probably one of the first early
40:00access scams because before this time, I
40:03don't know if you heard of it, Steam had
40:05a green light scheme. So green light was
40:09basically
40:11not everyone could post their game on
40:13Steam. it wasn't allowed. You would
40:15apply for a green light and Steam would
40:19periodically put candidate games in
40:23front of gamers and gamers would vote
40:26and if they got the green light they
40:28would be released. This was be and maybe
40:30now you are thinking oh that was a good
40:32idea because there are many many
40:35slop games right now and maybe you are
40:38right but it also meant you needed
40:41visibility and popularity to be released
40:44on Steam and then they moved on to just
40:47pay us $100 and we will release it. I
40:49don't know if it's better or worse.
40:52So but this game I think I bought this.
40:57Can does it tell me when I bought it?
40:59No. Uh I have two f two
41:04poor friends have played pre previously.
41:08How to rip off your fan base 101. So
41:12let's go to the store page.
41:15It doesn't even have the store page.
41:18Let's look at the community hub and
41:20images then. This was basically a very
41:23realistic sci-fi Minecraft.
41:26So that was the idea. And this was
41:31before Microsoft even bought Minecraft.
41:35Minecraft was big.
41:39Landing on Atlas was no easy task. All
41:42my friends have been scattered all over
41:43the planet and my efforts to contact
41:46them has been viewed up. I'm not even
41:48sure I can. So, you were supposed to go
41:50and build things, blah blah blah.
41:53>> I will not fail.
41:55>> I don't want to hear you.
41:59Okay. You see crafting screen. And
42:01these, by the way, I'm telling you, this
42:03was before
42:05survival crafting became a default
42:08genre, right? There was Minecraft and
42:11then there were some other trials but
42:14this came out and people were what we
42:16can we can do this in realistic graphics
42:18and we can build all of this and I paid
42:2140 laser for this for two people.
42:25So 40 complete las and back in those
42:27days it was something like $40. There
42:30was a time in Turkeykey's history where
42:32$1 equal one LRA. So, uh,
42:38basically this never, this is pretty
42:40much all you see and it's all junky.
42:42Doesn't work properly. I never even got
42:45to be able to build all of this.
42:52So, everything about this game, and this
42:54is probably one of the first early
42:57access ripoffs, and these guys basically
43:00changed their names, studio names, and
43:03went off to do other games, right? And
43:06I'm actually curious if Seven Days to
43:10Die is still in early access.
43:13Maybe not. This game stayed in early
43:16access
43:17for an easy 10 years, easily.
43:23They made tons of tons of This is
43:25another block blocky zombie game.
43:30It has a huge fan base actually. Let's
43:32see how much they made from it.
43:36I'm curious.
43:38Staying 10 years in early access.
43:42Yeah, here it is.
43:47Not bad. $250
43:50million.
43:54But
43:56I think they for the largest part of the
43:59early access, they did not have any
44:01updates. Maybe they were being lazy.
44:04Maybe maybe they were being extra
44:05cautious or something. I played this
44:07game for a little while. I hate zombies
44:09and I don't like zombie games. So on the
44:12seventh day, they just attacked me and
44:14destroyed everything I had. So I quit. I
44:16uninstalled the game. I'm not playing it
44:18anymore, but I have a friend who is a
44:21huge fan of it. So that's there's that.
44:26Okay. So this is the thing. Wait a
44:30second. Where is my Okay, here it is.
44:33So this is what we have these days. And
44:36if you are, we were talking about what
44:38is the correct way to do it. Normally
44:41then what we should do is you keep this
44:45to yourself
44:47or actually let me write it somewhere
44:49else.
44:51Right? Again this is my opinion. So
44:59alpha you keep it to yourself.
45:10You can show it to
45:14friends and family to get their opinion.
45:20Wait a second.
45:29Right. Maybe you can show it to other
45:31devs. Sometimes if it's very polished,
45:35you can show it to stakeholders.
45:36Stakeholders means someone who might
45:38invest in your game. a publisher, right?
45:49if
45:51it's a good alpha
45:56and beta
46:01is when you start showing it around.
46:10You can show it on social media
46:12because at that stage people should be
46:15able to completely understand what the
46:16game is about, right?
46:21You can release a demo.
46:29You can definitely show it to investors
46:31or publishers.
46:37You can even release it to early access
46:42if you are sure that you will continue
46:45development. Right? And after you
46:48release,
46:52well, you release the game, right? But
46:54you should make sure that
46:58you not relax, release.
47:02You can still have some bugs,
47:10but
47:12not gamebreaking.
47:18So, if the player, for example,
47:20can jump a little bit higher in a
47:23certain area and it's a bug and they can
47:25access a secret location that they
47:28should not
47:30access, that's probably fine. But if the
47:33game crashes, then that is not fine.
47:36Okay. So, uh now let's take a five
47:39minute break. I will briefly explain to
47:42you production and post-production. We
47:44will be only one week behind. Next week
47:46we will jump into
47:50version control. All right, see you on
47:5313 past 11.
48:02Okay, everyone, welcome back. And as you
48:04can see, I lost my focus. Why did it
48:06focus? I mean, these autofocusing damn
48:10cameras.
48:12That's how you're going to see me from
48:13now on. Unfortunately, I'm sorry. So, we
48:16are on this right side of this. Okay.
48:22And we will talk about production and
48:25post-p production stages.
48:33And now you should take this again since
48:36I have just explained to you what is
48:37going on in game development stages
48:41these days. You should now you
48:43understand that this pre-production,
48:45production and post-production stages
48:47are kind of mixed together and exposed
48:52to the audience, right? The gamers. And
48:56we still didn't answer that question of
48:59should we should the gamers have a say
49:01in how we develop our game. We will
49:04circle back to it at the end of the
49:06course and we will discuss end of this
49:07lecture and we'll discuss that. So
49:10traditionally what we do in production
49:13is the everything that you would
49:15generally consider game making. So we
49:17would do asset creation
49:21not the ones for the prototype we would
49:23create our actual assets right
49:27and we will do our coding or we will
49:31have AI do our coding these days things
49:32are changing quite rapidly in software
49:36development. So I only want to to be
49:39able to Oh, okay. I can. Great.
49:44We do our
49:47design work
49:54and we do our audio and music.
50:03Right.
50:07by the way and we do our
50:12meetings and reviews.
50:18You can ask me, "Oh, but don't we do it
50:20in pre-production?" Yes, but let's call
50:23this play testing.
50:29Normally, of course, you do play testing
50:32during alpha and beta. should by the way
50:35this production phase includes alpha and
50:38beta. All right.
50:42Traditionally alpha and beta are here.
50:56So this is not something like when we
50:58are finishing you are you have done your
51:00work in designing the preliminary
51:03prototype of your game and now you are
51:05in production you you decided to go
51:07ahead with this game and you're
51:08producing it. For example gamer input
51:11can mean a lot on whether you will move
51:14from pre-production to production. Maybe
51:16you will kill the game in between.
51:18Mobile does it all the time. So, and we
51:22have other boring things like our
51:24milestones.
51:28Oh, we should have this done by now or
51:30we should have that done by Monday or
51:32next week, next month, next year,
51:37right? And then also we have our
51:40optimization part
51:46Q&A. And this list goes on. This is not
51:49an exhaustive list. So there are many
51:51things that you can be doing here based
51:54on what you need.
51:57But most of the time you don't do these
52:01in any order. These things happen
52:04especially these
52:11happen simultaneously.
52:15Let me write it nicely.
52:24For those of you who wonder, it means at
52:25the same time.
52:30So you don't say, "Oh, let's create the
52:32assets and let's design and then code."
52:35So coders and designers and 3D modelers
52:40they all work together
52:42which is why we need that game design
52:45document we talked about in
52:47pre-production. So, but
52:51you basically make your game right that
52:55is what it is and then you move on after
52:57you release we move on to postp
53:00production and I just explained to you
53:02how these days post production is not a
53:06very separate stage anymore right so
53:09this is traditional post-prouction
53:15it is after you release your game in a
53:17traditional setting
53:19So, you do bug fixes
53:25and you release your DLC's or updates.
53:34And if your game is something like a
53:36multiplayer game, we call these live
53:38service games.
53:43Then you make tweaks to your game. You
53:46buff some characters. you nerf some
53:48characters or you prepare new content.
53:53So, this is mostly relevant when you
53:56have a live game like Rocket League or
53:58Overwatch or something to stay relevant.
54:01I think League of Legends releases a new
54:04character every few months.
54:07So,
54:08when I played Overwatch, there was about
54:1115 characters or so. it was the base
54:13roster and now they probably have
54:16something like 50 or something like
54:17that. So
54:20this part normally changes
54:24this part
54:27changes
54:29based on the game on the type of game
54:32you make.
54:45But again, as I said, these days,
54:50let's take a note here.
55:10And we can actually call this indie game
55:12they've seen because AAA pretty much
55:14works with this still but they have a
55:17lot of other things in place. They have
55:19they are a business right they are AAA
55:22companies are very big so they cannot
55:24have adapt a very quick agile structure.
55:29They have to have that giant structure
55:32to be able to function with about 300 or
55:351,000 people or maybe 3,000 people. And
55:38on top of that, they have a business
55:40layer suits in boardrooms that decide on
55:44what will be done and what's not. So AAA
55:46is
55:48a much more standardized and bulky way
55:52of I'm not saying it's a bad way of
55:54doing this. If you scale up to that m
55:56big that large a structure you need to
56:01have that structure you cannot run like
56:02an indie company even valve says they
56:05are a horizontal structure anyone can do
56:07anything but I don't think that really
56:09is the case I think
56:12even this is human nature okay even if
56:16you create the perfect
56:19anarchy
56:21so when you don't be alarmed when I say
56:23anarchy anarchy Is
56:27anarchy by definition is not what
56:31everyone does what they want.
56:43I cannot even type it. It's so wrong a
56:45definition normally.
56:55It's not this
56:58act in actuality. Anarchy is the lack of
57:01government,
57:06right?
57:08And the rationale is that
57:14individuals
57:19know how things should work.
57:26So everyone is informed, everyone is
57:29knowledgeable about the system and act
57:33accordingly.
57:37So
57:40a government is not needed.
57:49This is the true definition of anarchy
57:52in theory. Of course, we know it doesn't
57:55work like that because once you increase
57:58the number of people and remove the
58:01structure,
58:02you get chaos, not anarchy. Okay? you.
58:07So if you have a very large team and I
58:10say if you have a team larger than
58:13seven, six or seven people all the way
58:15up, okay, it can go up to 10, but if you
58:18have
58:20a team that is larger than 10 people,
58:24so
58:26in reality
58:29you get chaos.
58:33Why? Because people have their personal
58:38goals and ambitions
58:40as well as the group's goals and
58:43ambitions. And sometimes, most of the
58:44times before the group's goals and
58:46ambitions, you have your own. So when
58:48everyone tries to push their own agenda
58:51into a group, you throw that anarchy out
58:55of the window, right?
58:58So in reality, you get chaos. Which
59:00means
59:02if you
59:05have a group
59:07this is this might be relevant to
59:09anything any society or something right
59:12not just indie game development
59:16larger than 10 people
59:20and this might be an exaggeration maybe
59:22it's five people
59:24you need a structure
59:28this is not something against Anarchy I
59:30would
59:32and a true anarchy would be kind of a
59:37utopia but I will tell you about that
59:39you need a structure. So actually
59:42you
59:45need a
59:47leader
59:49someone who will call the shots. Someone
59:52who will
59:55tell how things will be done. Now
1:00:01hopefully
1:00:03this leader figure
1:00:06will be this can be a democracy, it can
1:00:09be
1:00:12a kingdom, right? A monarchy, it can be
1:00:14a dictatorship. But unless you have
1:00:18someone who at least organizes things,
1:00:22right? You're going to have chaos. And
1:00:24in that chaos
1:00:27this organizer
1:00:31an organized it can be an organizer that
1:00:34it would make make it a confederation or
1:00:36it can be a director
1:00:40right then it will be a federation uh
1:00:44within the leader. So then if it's an
1:00:45just an organizer or a leader regardless
1:00:50of that
1:00:53people should listen. So your team you
1:00:57have a six person in the team for game
1:00:59development
1:01:02studio right and you unanimously
1:01:05selected a person as the leader. Okay
1:01:07then you organize things and then you
1:01:09don't listen to that person. that person
1:01:11says, "Okay, I need the 3D model in two
1:01:13days because we're going to integrate."
1:01:15And then you just don't make the 3D
1:01:16model and say, "I don't know, man. I am
1:01:18going to a birthday party tomorrow. So,
1:01:21and then I'm going to have coffee with
1:01:23my girlfriend. I will try to finish it
1:01:26in two days, but I cannot promise you
1:01:28anything." Okay. Then then you shouldn't
1:01:30have made that person the organizer or
1:01:33the director or the leader. Right? So
1:01:36this consensus is important and this is
1:01:39what makes a world society
1:01:42go
1:01:45bunkers these days. Now you can have a
1:01:48as I said you can because in an ancient
1:01:51philosopher I think it was not Socrates
1:01:54but Aristophan Aristotellis I don't know
1:01:57talked about wise kings.
1:02:03So that guy argued democracy wouldn't
1:02:05work
1:02:09but you should have wires king. These
1:02:11are not my thoughts. I have to make a
1:02:13note here.
1:02:21It's a great philosopher.
1:02:28But you can kind of see why people
1:02:31generally congre congregate around even
1:02:34in democracies strong leaders that
1:02:38display the will of a king. This is how
1:02:41you lead up to dictatorships, right? I
1:02:43mean Adolf Hitler being the most famous
1:02:45example of it. But
1:02:48that strong will turns people into
1:02:52politicians and that ambition that comes
1:02:55with it make them corrupt politicians.
1:02:57That's why there's this joke going
1:02:59around that all politicians are always
1:03:01corrupt. There are honest ones, but you
1:03:02have to find them like needle in the
1:03:04high stack. So these things kind of come
1:03:07bundled together. But the idea is for us
1:03:10when you scale it down to an indie game
1:03:13studio, not even a triple game studio,
1:03:16some person should be doing the leading.
1:03:20And ideally,
1:03:22if the team wants to work effectively
1:03:26together, you will accept what this
1:03:31person decides or says.
1:03:35A a bad decision is better than no
1:03:38decision. So if somebody is leading the
1:03:42team and that somebody is making bad
1:03:45decisions, of course you can always
1:03:47stage a mutiny like those they did in
1:03:49ships. you you overthrow the captain and
1:03:52you take over from the captain, but then
1:03:55you better know better be knowing what
1:03:58you are doing with the ship, right? So
1:04:02in if you want to know a little if you
1:04:04want to get a little more insight about
1:04:07this anarchy thing in a fun and fun
1:04:11manner, I highly advise you read the
1:04:15dispossessed
1:04:20by Ursula Luguin.
1:04:25It's an amazing book. It is one of the
1:04:28cornerstones of sci-fi and it talks
1:04:31about a society which decided to go
1:04:36anarchic and migrated to the moon of
1:04:40their planet. It is somehow habitable.
1:04:43So here lives the capitalist normal
1:04:46people and here live the anarchist
1:04:50people and you see how even their
1:04:54understanding of utopia because it's a
1:04:56it's a it's a utopian world it's kind of
1:04:59like there is a huge computer system
1:05:02that decides what needs to be done
1:05:03nobody is directing and the computer
1:05:06tells you there is fieldwork that needs
1:05:08to be done over there and you are
1:05:10assigned to it but it's an anarchy so
1:05:12you can always say no I won't do it and
1:05:14the computer says okay then I will
1:05:15assign somebody else but people
1:05:17generally have the common sense to go
1:05:20and do the thing assigned to them
1:05:23because they know it is necessary for
1:05:25them and other people to do it. It's it
1:05:28just takes the fantasy to the level that
1:05:30there is an automated system that
1:05:34decides on things but people are
1:05:37completely free to do whatever they
1:05:38want. And Luin shows how even in that
1:05:43utopian
1:05:46state
1:05:48personal ambitions and goals sometimes
1:05:53get ahead in front of the collectives
1:05:57needs. So she kind of argues how not how
1:06:02anarchy falls or is impossible but how
1:06:06it should be navigated. How people
1:06:09don't fit that well with anarchies
1:06:13anarchic structures
1:06:15but that is not about game development.
1:06:18It's in if if you want to increase your
1:06:21understanding about anarchy a little
1:06:23bit. So in today's game they have seen
1:06:26what were we talking about?
1:06:32What was I talking about? Production
1:06:33post-production right?
1:06:36So
1:06:39you kind of
1:06:42have to do
1:06:45all stages.
1:06:48It looks like together
1:06:57because you have to do the marketing,
1:07:01you have to do the development.
1:07:06Let's say you have to do the development
1:07:09first and foremost. Without development,
1:07:10there is no game, right?
1:07:14But you have to do the community
1:07:17building.
1:07:24And you have to do the marketing.
1:07:27And there is some misunderstanding here
1:07:30that thinks marketing is not advertising
1:07:34the game. It's not going around and
1:07:36saying I will do this game etc etc.
1:07:41This is not advertising. Marketing
1:07:47is every decision
1:07:55that
1:07:57is planned
1:08:01to lead
1:08:06to a successful game.
1:08:12Now what is success?
1:08:15It can be money
1:08:18first and foremost but it can also be
1:08:20you might be doing a portfolio piece. So
1:08:22it can it might be recognition
1:08:26right or it might be just experience for
1:08:30you.
1:08:31You decide how your game will be
1:08:34successful.
1:08:37But if you look at this, if you think
1:08:40that every decision,
1:08:44this means even the genre that you pick
1:08:56is a marketing decision,
1:09:03right? So this means marketing is not
1:09:05just oh we've completed half of our game
1:09:07let's start putting it on Reddit. No
1:09:10this is you start the marketing of your
1:09:13game by making it marketable.
1:09:17Does that make sense?
1:09:25I hope it does.
1:09:29But uh so in today's game they've seen
1:09:32yes you do
1:09:34everything and do all together and there
1:09:38is one thing that's important in indie
1:09:42gaming
1:09:43that's different to AAA
1:09:47and it's that
1:09:49one person
1:09:56wears many hats.
1:10:01So
1:10:04you could be for example coding for the
1:10:06game but you could also be doing the
1:10:09design for the game because maybe you
1:10:11are just one person you do everything
1:10:13yourself right
1:10:16or you could be doing the community
1:10:19building yourself,
1:10:29right?
1:10:32So, one person
1:10:36does these
1:10:39and another person does, for example,
1:10:41the 3D modeling,
1:10:46audio and music.
1:10:54another does these
1:11:00or and maybe one person is not good at
1:11:04any of these but that person for example
1:11:07can really well pitch to investors
1:11:16and this can be another person.
1:11:24So in indie development you will not
1:11:26have very clearly defined rules
1:11:30and more than often you will have to
1:11:33wear many hats. You should understand
1:11:36that's okay.
1:11:40So anything specific about indie
1:11:43development?
1:11:46No, not in this context. Not in the
1:11:49production pre-production blah blah
1:11:52context. So, there's that. So, what did
1:11:56we go over today?
1:12:04Oh. Oh, we went too high.
1:12:11Let's take all of this.
1:12:19down like this. No, I think it's the
1:12:22correct place.
1:12:27A little bit like this. Okay.
1:12:30So we first looked into
1:12:41how things worked
1:12:43right
1:12:45in the societ in the game development
1:12:48pipelines
1:12:49in the past and in today. Let's
1:12:52underline these two.
1:12:59And then underline this one, too.
1:13:03And I forgot to put stars, but these are
1:13:06all pretty important. So, you can
1:13:08consider
1:13:10any part of this being the subject of
1:13:13the
1:13:15exam.
1:13:17Do you have any questions for me? We
1:13:19might leave a little bit early today or
1:13:20we might continue into
1:13:23chatting about this. If it is if the
1:13:26topics are not related, I will end the
1:13:29meet lecture.
1:13:31Then I I may hang around for another 10
1:13:33or 15 minutes.
1:13:37Does anybody have but I if you have any
1:13:41questions about how to build or produce
1:13:44an indie game anything in your mind it
1:13:47would be best to ask now so that it's
1:13:50recorded in the lecture so we can
1:13:53discuss it. If you are making any games
1:13:56and you are coming into any hardships in
1:13:58them trying to figure out solutions
1:14:00regarding how to make certain things, we
1:14:03can talk about that.
1:14:12Okay, wonderful.
1:14:15As always, if it's about this class, you
1:14:18should reach out to me over email. And I
1:14:22understand our university emails are
1:14:24still not opened up. That's okay. I have
1:14:27another one. As you know,
1:14:28owner.istmail.com.
1:14:35If it is not about this class
1:14:37specifically, you can reach out to me
1:14:40not from my personal email because it
1:14:41will get lost, but you can reach out to
1:14:43me over WhatsApp to ask things as well.
1:14:48So there is that. Next week we will go
1:14:51into
1:14:52version control. We will
1:14:56sorry about that. We will go hard into
1:14:59version control.
1:15:01And
1:15:03that week will be really important
1:15:07for the midterm, not just your
1:15:12any game development career or any IT
1:15:14related or technology related career,
1:15:17but also I will lean very heavily on
1:15:20next week's topics in the midterm. So I
1:15:23suggest you attend it live, understand
1:15:27it, try to understand it to the best of
1:15:29your abilities and ask questions if you
1:15:31don't. All right, that's it. That's it
1:15:35for this week. Thank you. Goodbye and go
1:15:39play some games and if you want, start
1:15:42making your own.

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