Section 6-1
Constrains and compels game developers because it is the broader system within which they function
What is “the industry”?
Licensing games started with what practice?
What is the “Seal of Quality?”
What was the name for the apparatus that was used by Nintendo to ensure the authenticity of a game for the NES?
What is the 10NES chip?
A nondisclosure agreement and embodies a foundational memory loss system.
What is a NDA?
How are publishers able to differentiate between how one goes about making a game and giving away?
Many software companies have made numerous aspects of their work and work processes available online to foster a community of practice. The important difference is that for game companies this openness would go beyond releasing the "source code" of a game.
Highly networked structure and knowledge flow that is tightly controlled and is also connected to the broader world.
What is “intranetworked?”
When looking at the differential scores between PC and console game sales, publishers would be more interested in which?
What are “console games?”
Why did Nintendo feel the need to patent the 10NES chip system?
The patent provided legal powers against those who wanted to get around Nintendo’s Seal of Quality.
Even when companies ultimately belong to the same parent company, they continue to not share information based on
What is Accustomed Practice?
What must a designer be able to document?
Designers should be able to document and explain how data combined with artistic assets and how it mobilized the source code to create a game.
A company who is not the principal corporation involved in business, but who is involved in it in a minor role.
What is a third party development company?
Oftentimes, before a request for a DevKit is granted, developers must provide:
What is “proof of concept” or “game demo?”
What was created by manufacturers to help game developers create games for consoles because ethe hardware is significantly different on PCs?
What are DevKits?
A popular game studio that started its Nocturnal Initiative.
What is Insomniac Games?
Transparency and development can help developers understand _________?
Transparency and development can help publishers and manufactures understand why developers are resistant to dedicated shifts or changes.
To obtain goods or a service from an outside group, especially in place of an internal source.
What is outsourcing?
Nintendo limited all licensees, including Atari, to how many new NES games per year?
What is “five?”
What is one bad thing about Devkits?
With the fees and NDA surrounding devkits unconnected producers cannot create a game for the devices without the permission of the manufacturers.
Open sourcing numerous aspects of their video game development process and the tools that form the connective tissue between their numerous systems.
What is the Nocturnal Initiative?
What are postmortems?
The postmortems are most widely read feature in game developer around big huge.
A studio that is owned by either a publishing company or console manufacturer, and they act relative to independent developers.
What is an in-house development studio?
Publishers use this type of developer to test the market and take advantage of the lower risk before reaping the capital.
What is “independent?”
True or False, corporations scream for an open market yet simultaneously leverage government regulation to alter the market in their favor?
What is true?
A website created two months after the release of the iPhone 3G that offered developers a place where they can rant about their industry.
What is "fuckingnda.com?"
Sociological studies of science indicate, estimation in particular requires experience.