[casual_games] Tools

[Ryan Sumo]

I was doing a crapload of research online,and I ran across what I felt should have been an obvious choice for doing research, and I'm still kicking myself for taking this long to find it.
   
  http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/1_1/casual.php
   
  This issue delves into the technologies the better knwn companies use, the next issue is about the business side of things, while the issue prior to this is about the casual gamer demographic.  Hope it helps.
   
  Cheers.

Kenton White <k.white at i2learning.com> wrote:
  One more lightweight tool that is very handy is a short glossary of terms
(or an "internal ontology" as one more academic colleague called it). On my
first project we ignored this and found that the designer, programmer,
writer, and artist all had different definitions of what "level" meant. On
the better days this led to unexpected humor during team meetings; on the
worst days it led to wasted effort and frustrated people.

Kenton 

-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Lionel Barret De Nazaris
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:14 AM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Tools

Well, the rule of thumb is to use lightweight tools.

Most companies have lightweight production process, so they use
lightweight tools.
for programming it means : Flash, Python, PopCap framework (I haven't
tested this one, someone could enlighten us on this one ?) etc...
Some use Java because of the browser integration (which is a big plus).
AFAIK few use c++.

But in the end, it depends on what you know. You should use c++ if you
know it well.

For the graphic tools, it's quite classic : 2D (photoshop or gimp) and
3D (3DSMAX and some free/open source software of which i have forgotten
the name). But most companies use freelance for the visual in their
game. After all, only the programmers are needed during the whole
project.

About security, I don't care much about security, those who can crack
your game (I am speaking of downloadable games) are not in your
demographic anyway.

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:37 -0800, erwin nepo wrote:
> Hi evryone,
> 
> I'm a software developer for an IT consulting firm. I just wanna try
> out developing casual games. I've been studying the articles at the
> SIG and they've been very useful but can anyone suggest articles or
> papers about doing business with publishers/distributors especially
> concerning exclusivity, because some games can be found in so many
> sites, so does the publisher contact all these sites or are these
> sites publishers and do I have to contact each of these sites if I
> want them to carry my games.
> 
> Finally, what tools and languages do you use and what special
> libraries, if any are needed for casual games? And how do you
> implement security with regards to registration codes? Thanks
> 
> best regards,
> Erwin Nepomuceno
> 
> 
> 
> 
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