A Digital Gaming Strategy for Malta Appendices
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A Digital Gaming Strategy for Malta Appendices Appendices for Digital Gaming Strategy for Malta Report Version 2.01 Date: 1st February 2012 1 “A Digital Gaming Strategy for Malta” is an independent Report prepared by Games Audit UK Ltd. The Report does not necessarily reflect the views of Malta Enterprise, the University of Malta and the Malta Council for Science and Technology, on whose behalf it was prepared. Extracts from the document have been removed due to confidentiality and data protection issues. © 2012. All rights reserved. Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 Page 2 A DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR MALTA Appendix 1: Chapter 1 Page I Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 APPENDIX 1 Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 Page II APPENDIX 2 Appendix 2: Chapter 2 No appendices for this chapter Page III Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 APPENDIX 3 Appendix 3: Chapter 3 No appendices for this chapter Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 Page IV A DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR MALTA Appendix 4: Chapter 4 4.2 Games Development Roles, Skills Requirements, and courses available in Malta’s Education Institutions. Management & Example Qualification Business Roles Variations and notes or Possible Background Skills, activities, responsibilities Business vision, company leadership, shareholder communications, PR, General Manager CEO, Studio Manager Management, MBA, finance financial models Executive aka EP, sometimes Game Management, Marketing, Industrial product vision, business case owner, team leadership, PR, customer Producer Director Design champion Development budget and schedule owner, team operational management, project Director Management, MBA, Project Management management schedule management, team communications, milestone process, product Project Manager sometimes called "producer" Project Management review, dashboard reporting, operational meetings Senior Producer, Associate product management, customer understanding, links to Producer Producer Project Management dev/mktg/biz/ops/legal/localisation, PR, team communications product accounting, business accounting, business model planning, Business Manager, budgeting process, payroll/tax responsibilities, cashflow, invoicing, Finance Director Accountant Accountancy, Maths, Economics expense tracking ramp up/down of QA team, test planning, bug database, reporting, QA manager QA leads, QA contractors Project Management, Engineering milestone approval Customer phone support, FAQ/website/forums maintenance, escalation process, Relations "Game masters" Sociology, Business Studies billing support, in-game-policing, community communications Operations running live team, billing oversight, infrastructure & scalability, hosting Manager sometimes "producers" Engineering, Management contracts, budgetting, telemetry monitoring & review, roll-out of updates design metrics, monitor customer gameplay, manage database of metrics, Operations Facebook guru, Telemetry Psychology, Economics, Statistics, data-mining for value, business modelling, optimising retention/ARPU, Analyst analyst Databases statistical skills Page V Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 APPENDIX 4 Management & Example Qualification Business Roles Variations and notes or Possible Background Skills, activities, responsibilities HR generalist, recruitment hiring, firing, payroll, bonus/performance process, company culture, team HR manager manager Human Resources and management development integrating advertising to game, selling adspace, advertising platform Advertising sales often outsource/agency Economics, Marketing, Sales relationship, evolving business models, localisation/per-territory-deals PR/Marketing marketing message, communications, press-relations, publicity & Directors often outsource/agency Marketing, PR conference events website operational management, updates, community support, web Web master often outsource/agency Webdesign, Computing, IT design & outsourcing Table 4.2a-i. Management & Business Roles Descriptions Management & Holistic Institute MCAST Art STC University of Malta St Martins Business Roles of Technologies and Design Training Business Administration (E- MSc International Business; None Available None Available Business Information Systems General Manager Business) (Master) MBA management Economics and Marketing MBA; BSc Business None Available None Available Business Information Systems Executive Producer (Bachelor of Commerce) Administration in Marketing management Business Administration (E- None Available None Available Business Information Systems Development Director Business) (Master) MBA; BSc Business management None Available None Available Project Manager Management Studies (Diploma) BSc Management PRINCE2 None Available Producer Management Studies (Diploma) BSc IS and Management Games Designer (Diploma) PRINCE2 Maths (BA, MA None Available None Available Business Information Systems Finance Director Economics (BA, MA, PhD) BSc Accounting and Finance management Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 Page VI A DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR MALTA Management & Holistic Institute MCAST Art STC University of Malta St Martins Business Roles of Technologies and Design Training Integrated Product Development None Available Games QA Tester None Available Business Information Systems QA manager (M.Sc.) (Diploma) management Social Studies (BA), Sociology BSc Business Administration in None Available None Available International Advanced Customer Relations (BA) Marketing Diploma in Computer Studies Business Information Systems Integrated Product Development BSc Business Administration in None Available None Available management Operations Manager (M.Sc.) HRM BSc Business, BSc Economics None Available None Available and Management International Advanced Operations Analyst Psychology (BA), Diploma in Computer Studies Business Administration (E- BSc Business Administration in None Available None Available Business Information Systems HR manager Business) (Master) HRM management Economics and Marketing None Available None Available Advertising sales (Bachelor of Commerce) BSc Management Web Marketing Economics and Marketing BSc Business Administration in None Available None Available PR/Marketing Directors (Bachelor of Commerce) International Business Web Marketing BSC Computing & IS, BSc HND in Graphic Design (Level 5), Information Technology Creative Computing Games Artist & Animator HND in Interactive Media (Level Internet Application Web master (Master) (Diploma) 5) Development Table 4.2a-ii. Management & Business Roles against Courses Page VII Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 APPENDIX 4 Programmers & IT Example Qualification / Possible Variations and notes Skills, activities, responsibilities Roles Background Computer Science, Electronic programming leadership, process and schedule responsibility, Lead programmer Technical Director Engineering relationships to other disciplines, owns build stability desktop support, server maintenance, equipment purchase and IT administration IT director, helpdesk contractors Computing, IT administration setup, application install/config/maintain, backups, networking Programming, Computer Science, Database programmers aka "DB admin" SQL, webforms, transaction processing, Databases user interface rich applications in many technologies, e.g. MFC, Tools programmers also middleware sourced Programming, Computer Science C#/.NET, Java Web Design, Programming, Computer halfway between art and programming, should understand GUI User Interface designers Science design and implementation – often become web-based client server models, performance, bandwidth optimization, Network programming also middleware sourced Programming, Computer Science realtime synchronisation knowledge of 3D, animation, hardware rendering – e.g. military Graphics programming also middleware sourced Programming, Computer Science work Programming, AI, Games Simulation programming aka Gameplay Programmer scientific, business simulation, gameplay scripting, physics Development Mobile programming Programming, Computer Science native applications for iPhone/Android : C++, Java, Objective C Embedded system Programming, Computer Science, expertise would translate directly to many game-console programmers Engineering environments. C++/assembler/memory management typically have some mix of Java, Javascript, HTML(5), Flash, SQL, Web programmers often outsource/agency Web Design, Computer Science PHP, AJAX, VB aka C++ programmer, Game Programming, Computer Science, C++ or Java (main languages used in games development). Systems programmer Systems programmer Engineering Computer science training. Process and Testing expertise. Programming, Computer Science, senior systems designers, analysts, capable of dealing with Systems architect systems analyst Engineering customers and business cases Copyright Games Audit (c) 2012 Page VIII A DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR MALTA Programmers & IT Example Qualification / Possible Variations and notes Skills, activities, responsibilities Roles Background Customer Support gameplay scripting, game players, customer communications, sometimes outsourced for volume Design courses, Programming Technicians debugging menus/tweakers Table 4.2a-iii. Programmers and IT Roles Description Holistic Institute MCAST Art STC Programmers & IT Roles University of Malta St Martins of Technologies and Design Training BSC Computing Integrated Product & IS, Games Developer Internet Application Lead programmer None Available Development (M.Sc.) BSc Creative (Diploma) Development Computing Information and BSC Computing Information Technology and IT administration Communication