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Workflow Improvement via
Automatic Asset Tracking
Matt Greene and William Smith
3.1 Introduction
Volition, Inc., is the developer of recent titles Saints Row 2 and Red Faction:
Guerrilla for Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, and PC platforms. Volition
employs over a hundred full-time developers to generate unique content for each of
its simultaneous game projects. Keeping track of game art content for projects at
Volition is an organizationally daunting task. This article describes how Volition’s
technical artists built an automated solution to the general problem of asset tracking
for the upcoming cross-platform development project, Red Faction: ...