I know this will be a very long and tedious road a head but it is one that I'm ready for and understand the time, dedication and money needed for such undertaking and I fully understand this and am prepaid for it and have a strong idea for how long it will take.
Experience with industry soft wear
In the past I have used the most up to date version of the Unreal engine with a good under standing with how all of the functions work, I have also used Mud Box but only for a very small amount of time and had good end results with it but it did take a long time for me to get used to it.
Work I have made
Here is some of my work that I believe has Shows my understanding of the games industry and passion for gaming as an hole
Unit 43:Production and Post Production for Television
One of the biggest units for the CDM (Creative Digital Media) course was in teams of 4 or less make a segment for a magazine TV show named The Games Corner in conjunction with other teams to end up with 6 complete episodes. Me and my teams segment was to make reviews for new releases on different platforms (PC, Xbox One, PS4,Wii U). we did this to a good grade and got a lot of positive feed back from Sheffield live. I did a large amount of paper work for this unit. I also did the set design a long side an other member of the team. We also tuck it in turns choosing what to review and who would lead the review, who ever was leading had to do research on the games and had played in a lot before hand so that they could answer any questions given by the other hosts and to just be over all informative. I had a also did the offline edits for some of the reviews as well.
I also went out to help set up for and film an other part of The Games Corner. This is when we where covering a small gaming event in Sheffield city centre called Game Over
Unit 11: Writing a script for a media product
Unit 11 was still linked to The Sheffield Live magazine TV show The Games Corner but in stead of reviewing a new game I was tasked with researching and writing a script for the news segment of the games corner. In the team of 3 that I was in a was given the duty of researching the most up to date and trending topics to talk about. We where give a week before the episode was going to be recorded to make the script in so that was as up to date as possible. so I had a max of 2-3 days to research new and trending topics that would be interesting. I only ha 2-3 day because the remaining time was needed to properly write the script.
Unit 19
The unit was the planning of a music radio show or pod-cast. I chose to plan a pod-cast that was about films and games.
Unit 60
This unit was all about the games industry and making a games concept that would be pitched to Sumo Digital. This unit shows my understanding of the games industry and my ability to come up with an original games concept/
Unit 1
This unit was about film rather then gaming but it had a very have focus on the audience and what they what from a product and how a film is made and marketed at a specific audience. I believe that this unit shows my knowledge of how marketing working and that I would be able to market a product of my own and be able to a have a clear senses of who make audience is for a product of my own.
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
Strengths
- I have a very realistic idea of how long it will take to establish a games studio the the hard ships it will in-tail
- With my CDM course I have learned how to advertise my self ,make a website and many more things
- Being able to improve my skills with unreal will take a lot of time
- After college I will be getting a job to fund for everything which will be cost lot at first for all of the software, hardware and other experiment that I will need.
- I will find it hard at first to be able to devote a large amount of time to developing a game but this should only be for the first few mouth
Opportunities
- With how many people are trying to do this there have been lot of new why to make money even before the game has started development, such as the website kick starter where some projects have got millions in public funding.
- I could sell keys for early access for the pre-alpha game.
Threats
- Over-saturated market
- The initial marketing and getting my name out there will be hard with no previous work and/or fan.
Sources of Funding and Investments
Kick starter is a public funding website where you make a profile for a project that you have in mind or a pre-existing project. People can go on this website to donate money to these projects'. you have a set amount of time to which people can donate money to the projects. Some of these projects have grossed 5 times more then there target and others have made millions in there Kick Starter.
Steam Green-light is a rating on Steam for unpublished developer where they can get there game disturbed over the internet throw Steam so that your game can be sold around the world rather then just in your local region.
Early Access
This is where people pay you to play the unfinished version of a game and the further versions.
Patreon
Patreon is a website where people donate money to you for and they get something back in return such as a free copy of the game, updates on the game and it could be anything else.
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