Producing Games

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Game Project Lifecycle Overview

As a game producer it is important to understand each facet involved in conceiving, creating, and releasing a game. This means not only knowing your jobs, but the exact duties of everyone involved from the individual development team members to the marketing and PR staff. From the beginning you need to know the basics of how games are made and the development cycles they go through.

Consider the game development cycle as a living being. It’s conceived at the concept stage where the ideas for the game are born, then it goes through prepubescence at pre-production where it is given the tools it needs to flourish into adulthood, then the teen and adult years all smashed together in production, until ...