Producing Games

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THIRTY FOUR

The Tech Side at Pre-Production

As the game is being planned out at pre-production, you should include your tech director in as many aspects as possible, partially to determine whether everything being planned is feasible given the resources of the project, but also so that the tech requirements and needs can be planned out. This is also the stage where the tech is tested to verify that the work built for the game can be integrated into the engine and executed on the target hardware. The final outcome of the tech side of pre-production should be a fully vetted tech design doc detailing the strategy of how the tech will be structured and flow, securing all of the tech needs before going into production, and a working ...