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Video games : creating virtual fantasy
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With annual sales figures mounting up into the billions of dollars, video games have reshaped the leisure landscape. Who are the brains behind the big-budget masterpieces such as Star Wars: Force C...
With annual sales figures mounting up into the billions of dollars, video games have reshaped the leisure landscape. Who are the brains behind the big-budget masterpieces such as Star Wars: Force Commander and the Turok series, and what is it like to be part of a game development team? In this program, creative directors, writers, designers, artists, programmers, composers, sound effects specialists, and testers from Nintendo of America, LucasArts Entertainment, and Acclaim Studios step through every stage of the game development process, from initial concept to last-minute prerelease debugging.
Details
- Creator
- BuzzTaxi Communications Inc
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c2001
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (46 min.) : sd., col., digital
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781421364339
- OCLC
- ocn707972705
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Video Game Industry (3:05) -- Creative Freedom: "Turok" (4:08) -- Interactive Storylines in Video Games (3:41) -- Creating Characters and Weapons (4:07) -- Movement, Animation, and Realism (4:56) -- Games Within a Game (3:51) -- Codes in Video Games (2:44) -- Music in Video Games (4:18) -- Sound Effects in Video Games (4:27) -- Testing the Video Games (7:28)