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Business Models Business Models are the plans for the finance and revenue for a game which will detail how much money it should make and how much it should cost to make so they can try and make a profit to benefit their company. Budgetary Systems Budgetary Systems is what kind of budget the game is getting for games the  publishers will give money to the developers to help them make the game as both of them will work together to release a game. Financial Responsibilities Financial Responsibilities are when a company needs to plan how much money they need to make in order make a profit . Preparing a Budget Preparing a budget is when a company will need to prepare their budget and know how much money they want to or need to make. Evaluating Performance Against Budgets This is how well the developers produce a game with the budget they received from the publishers and they see how well they've performed and how much money they've made. Budgeting Periods This is when...

Design The different jobs in this department are Character Designers, Level Designers. The design department is responsible for designing the characters and levels in the game they basically draw out their designs for the games characters or levels. They will work with the Game Producers as they will need to know there designs and interpret them in the game and add them. Production The jobs in this department are Game Producers, Character Producers and Level Producers. The Department is is responsible for producing the elements in the game and actually making the game. They will probably work with most people from the Designers, they will work with quality assurance because they will need feedback on the game like glitches, mistakes etc. so they will need to correct them. Programming The jobs in this department are the people who create the codes that will run a video game through a program. On a day-to-day basis they will probably just write out a lot of codes for a particula...

Turn 10 Turn 10 is a games developer. A Game Developer is a company that makes a game and puts everything into the game like the models, levels and 2d sprites/images. Turn 10 is owned by the publisher Microsoft Studios they are used to develop their Forza series. A first party developer is a company who makes a video game console and develops for it like Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. A second party developer is a company that basically develops games for the first party developers, they are higher up than third party developers. They may have some publishing agreements, but maintain independence. Some examples of second party developers Insomniac Games for Sony, Bungie for Microsoft and Rareware for Nintendo. A third party developer is a company that can still publish games but very rarely, also most third party companies will have less say on the final development and the first and second party developers will get more say. Turn 10 is more of a second party developer as t...

Game Designer A game designers main role is to help develop/make the game and add the stuff into the game like the characters and levels. The kind of stuff you'll do in this role is you'll create the game play for the game you'll script levels and you'll need to balance the game play. The kind of skills you'll need to be a game designer are you'll need to have a really good knowledge of what makes a good game and how to make a game.  Game designers work with everyone from the art teams to programmers so they can implement their ideas The earnings for a game designer are yearly they earn an average of  £50,000, Game designers work around 35 hours a week but may need to work more as they get closer to deadlines. QA Someone working in quality assurance needs to play games and they will need to find errors/bugs within the game and report them back to the team to see if they're fix and then you'll check afterwards if they've been fix. The kind...

Products and Services Generations and mid-cycle refreshes- Generations are times in which certain consoles last until company's like microsoft release completely new consoles the generation we are in currently is generation eight with consoles like the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 past generations seen consoles like, the NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 and mid-cycle refreshes are when consoles make another version of the current console so for the Xbox they released the Xbox One X with this console you have the ability to play standard Xbox One Games but in 4K and HDR but not every will want to play in this so if you have a standard Xbox One you won't be missing out in terms of playable games and content so it 's not worth buying it. Virtual Reality- Virtual Reality also known as VR is a game experience when you wear a mask and you will actually feel like you are apart of the game because it feels realistic these have been getting more popular in recent years. Oculus a Virtu...

Franchised Intellectual Property This means that a game company will need to buy the licensing/rights to a game e.g. EA Sports need to buy the licensing from Fifa to make Fifa games and Sony needed to buy licensing from marvel to make the new spider-man game. Original IP This means that a game publisher e.g. Microsoft makes a completely new game series with new characters and no one else can copy it or they will get done for copyright infringement. It will be a lot harder to get an audience for these kind of games as there won't be a audience already their as it's first in a potentially new series Sequels and Spin-Off Titles These are for games that sell really well and they will make sequels for them e.g. Call of Duty and Forza Horizon. So they will release a sequel if the game sells really well because people obviously liked the game so the series will have a good fan base and they will make a lot of money. Discount Sales These are games that will go on sale and the...