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IMGD 1001: The Game Industry

IMGD Hit-Driven Entertainment  Games are emotional, escapist, fantasy- fulfilling, stimulating entertainment  Causes of success or failure are often intangible (but quality matters a lot) Consumers are smart  Hits come from individuals with skill, instinct, creativity, and experience (and some luck), not from marketing

IMGD Costs  Powers of 10 $50K - cell phone (Bejeweled knockoff) $500K – indie (Bomberman Live), nice casual game (Peggles) $5M - “A” (Titan Quest) $50M - “AAA” title (WoW)  WoW – costs and revenue $50 Million to make 6 Million average of about $12 / month for 2-3 months = $200 million a year (Less the cost of running those servers)

IMGD How the game industry works:

IMGD Roles  Developer  Publisher  (Distributor)  Retailer  Service Provider  Middleware

Development Studios? IMGD 10016

7 Developers  Design and implement games  Responsible for the content Including: programming, art, sound effects, and music  Historically, small groups but now often larger  Analogous to book authors Sometimes first party (part of publisher) Or third party (independent business)  (More later -- most of this class!)

Publishers? IMGD 10018

9 Publishers  “To find the publisher in any deal, look for the one who’s got negative cash-flow during development” Dan Scherlis (Turbine, EtherPlay, …)  Handle manufacturing, marketing, PR, distribution, support  Typically specialized in certain markets  Assume the risk, reap the profits  Might also handle QA, licensing, project management

IMGD Publishers relationship to developers  Star developers can bully publishers, because publishers desperate for good content  But most developers are bullied by publishers, because developers are desperate for money  Publishing swings from big to small and back depending on the market  Most publishers also have in-house developers

IMGD Distributors  Move software from publisher to retailer  Modeled on book distribution  Pubs like them because they manage relationship with many small stores  Stores like them because they manage relationship with many pubs  Compete on price, speed, availability  Very low margins (3%) -- dying breed

Game Retailers? IMGD

IMGD Retailers  Sell software to end users But really sell shelf space to publishers Compete on price, volume of product  Shift in 80’s to game specialty stores, especially chains (today ~25%) EB Games, GameStop  Shift in 90’s to mass market retailers (today ~70%) Target, WalMart, Best Buy  Retailers earn 30% margin on a $50 game  Electronic download of games via Internet still in infancy Big but not huge (today ~5%)

IMGD Service Providers  Sound, Music, Voiceover  Artists (2D, 3D, concept)  QA  PR  Advertising

IMGD Middleware  Provide the tools used by developers Small: Game Maker, Torque Medium: Havok, Rad Game Tools Large: Doom, Unreal Engine  Few customers, large upfront cost, hard to break in...limited growth but profitable

IMGD Traditional Game Development  Developer creates concept  Developer builds demo  Developer meets with publishers  Publisher agrees to fund it (advance against royalty)  Project gets developed  Publisher boxes it, ships it, markets it  Publisher collects money  Developer MIGHT make more money...if advance is earned out

IMGD Traditional Model: Cross Between Books and Hollywood  Less than 10% of published titles break even  Sequels very popular  Development costs rising  Self-publishing is nearly suicidal  Retail and distribution control access to customers

IMGD Indie Game Development  Developer creates concept  Developer turns concept into a game  Developer finds nontraditional publisher to sell game Sometimes self-publishes  Publisher responsible for Web storefront  Developer gets 30-40% of each sale

IMGD Exercise: Getting to Market  2 minutes to write a one-sentence game description of a game you want to make  Form up into pairs or teams based on yesterday’s pairings based on your new group  2 minutes to decide on ONE of your ideas

IMGD Exercise: Allocate Points  You have 15 points  Allocate 0-6 points for each of the following facets: P: Prototype/Pitch (not important)  How much effort you place on developing a solid prototype to pitch to publishers D: Development (important)  How much effort you place on development M: Marketing/Sales (not too important)  How much effort you place on marketing your project F: Fun (important)  How effective your design is in terms of how much consumers like your product

IMGD Exercise: Roll the Dice!  Everyone stand up  For each roll of the die, please sit down if the number is greater than the points you allocated for that facet P: Prototype/Pitch -2 D: Development +1 M: Marketing/Sales -1 F: Fun +1

IMGD Exercise: How Many are Left?  Yes, luck is a factor (the roll)  You can control it some with skill (knowing which is most important) and money (getting more points to allocate)  But there’s never enough of either to make it a sure thing