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How Drama and Fake Ads Convert To Real Profits

Deconstructor of Fun

With the clear trend of increasing dramatic in casual games: its time for developers across the industry to ask themselves: is our audience more interested in new gameplay, or new stories? Introduction I remember as a young product manager, working on major releases at Disney and Rovio how excited I was for the cutscenes.

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Does it take much work/money to edit cutscenes once finished? Like, you develop a cutscene but then you decide to change details like background, music, clothes, facial expressions of the characters or even add to the scene a character who originally wasn’t supposed to be there. How often does this happen?

Ask a Game Dev

Once upon a time, back when all cutscenes were pre-rendered FMV, it was tremendously expensive to make changes because making any small change required re-rendering the entire video which was enormously expensive. Today, for an in-game cinematic, a lot of the things are done in real time so we can swap things out as needed.

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Hello! I have a question about cutscenes. How does a decision get made about whether a cutscene can be skipped or not? I know some games have certain skipable cutscenes and others unskippable, and that in HD remakes of old games developers will sometimes add the ability to skip them. Do these decisions tend to be story-motivated or is there commonly a background mechanical reason to force a cutscene to play fully through?

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Cinematics are mostly for storytelling purposes, but they also hid a very real secondary purpose - we would do a lot of game setup during cinematics, like streaming data off of a physical disc while the cinematic is playing so that we can load what comes next.

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So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range? I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

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that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. or approximately $2,500 per development week per person.

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Sent this ask a while ago but I think Tumblr ate it so here it is: In which stage of game development are relationships between characters decided? Asking this because I recently found an old Final Fantasy VII relationship chart and originally some characters were supposed to have completely different bonds compared to the ones they ended up having in the actual game. These seem to be quite important plot points, so I assume that final decisions should be made before creating cutscenes? Or you can change stuff later if devs come up with better ideas?

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The important thing to think about when it comes to development is that we can't build the game sequentially, we have to build as much of the game in parallel as we can. For features like cutscenes, it depends on how much difficulty it takes to build the cutscenes. In the original FF7, the FMV sequences were set in stone.

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Game storytelling and narrative design

Jaunty Bear Games

This can include developing characters and their backgrounds, creating a believable and consistent game world, and crafting a compelling plot with meaningful choices for the player to make.

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Hideo Kojima: Influential and Innovative Video Game Director and Writer

Game Designing

As a child, he gained a deep appreciation for film and developed a refined taste in the medium that would inspire his work for years to come. Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami.