Interactive Production Process Notes

Production

• Content Creation
  • Graphics
  • Text
  • Animations
  • Video
  • Sound efx
  • Music
• Content Processing
  • Proofing
  • Editing
  • Assembly
  • Formatting
  • Compression
• Software Creation
  • Authoring
  • Custom software development
  • Implementing the interaction behavior of title
  • Implementing database and other backend services
• Integration of content and software, module by module
  • Very close relationship between content and software
  • One can't proceed very far without the other
  • Succeeding versions of software and content passed back and forth, starting with simple placeholders
• Revise design
  • Informal user testing
  • Formal user testing
  • Based on test results, revise design documents
• Freeze design
• Revise content and software according to final design
• Build Alpha version of complete title
  • Functionality frozen, mostly complete implementation
  • Integrate all modules in a complete build of title
• First testing and bug reporting for functional and content errors
• Evaluate bug reports and determine which will be fixed
• Revise software and content based on bug evaluation
• Complete remaining portions of title
• Build Beta version of complete title
  • Full functionality, not fully tested