Game developers get digital assets under control

Third-generation consoles to the files and graphics stock in the game development on the six-to eight-fold increase. Only if the digital assets efficiently and transparently managed, remains the development and control the games will be in the required quality finished.

The performance of the new consoles gives developers a whole new way and lets the volume of digital assets such as source code, 2D and 3D models and video and tone sequences grow by leaps and bounds. This trend also has a downside: The risk of error increases and the coordination of work of the various teams of developers will be more complex. This aggravates the errors inherent vulnerability of the games development. Sprites or letters in solid objects wander around, join in the development process in greater numbers and more frequently. As a result, studios need to develop more and more time to spend quality.

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The higher time but stands in contradiction to the growing pressure from the developers to produce more and more games in ever shorter time required. As a service provider in a long and complex supply chain of the entertainment industry, the development studios that pressure only stand if the efficiency of their processes and their management continue to improve. It is therefore no wonder that this industry with the highest penetration of systems for software configuration management.

But while it until not long enough, some tool for managing the game to have assets, then properties of the tools - scalability, performance, integration capability and support for various user groups of developers to project managers - more and more into the foreground.

Timo Ullmann, managing director of Yager Development, Berlin: "The development of a video game for two or three games platforms at the same time is in itself significant. The technical capabilities of the current consoles, however, have the consequence that the data for a single game over previous productions slightly to the six-to eight-fold increase. This version brings a lot of management tools to their limits."