![]() ![]() This is where the game’s central idea is outlined in detail along with the heroes’ mechanics – for instance, will they be driving vehicles, using weapons? What is also defined at this stage is which audience is being targeted and what type of experience we want them to acquire. What are the different stages when it comes to the creation of a video game? According to Vangelis Kalaitzis, who has an MA in game designing and is one of the creators of “ Darkfall,” a successful online video game, “the first step is pre-production. ![]() I know developers who make up to $200,000 per annum.” Salaries are very high abroad: In the United States a junior artist starts on a $80,000 annual salary, while a more experienced developer gets $120,000 per year. Similar specialties may exist in all the different stages of production. While in Greece it is quite common for an entire game to be developed by a small team – in some cases even one person – there are even more specialties at large international studios, where, besides the story writers, you might also have writers adjusting the text to the game, dialogue writers exclusively on the dialogues and a copy editor checking the text and giving the various copies a sense of homogeneity. According to game developer John Koumoundouros, a representative of the company, “a video game is like an interactive form of art bringing together different specialties: The central figure is the game designer, who takes on a role of general coordinator the programmers make the game operate the artists develop the graphics the animator is in charge of motion the level designer lays out the game’s different levels and the sound designer works on music and noises. ![]()
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