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Game Developers, Publishers, and Retailers Meaning >> PRODUCT REVIEW VIRTOOLS 3.0: REAL-TIME GAME DESIGN NOVEMBER 2004 THE LEADING GAME INDUSTRY MAGAZINE >>HOTTEST NEWS: >>ROLE OF THE WRITER >>FINITE STATE MACHINES ACCLAIM SINKS, SHOULD YOU HIRE QUICK AND EASY VISUAL TOKYO GAME SHOW SOARS AN ON-STAFF AUTHOR? AI DESIGN USING XML POSTMORTEM: HOW TIMEGATE STUDIOS SHIPPED KOHAN II AND AXIS & ALLIES BACK TO BACK []CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2004 VOLUME 11, NUMBER 10 FEATURES 12 VISUAL FINITE STATE MACHINE AI SYSTEMS AI can be tough to write effectively, and most top end programmers can’t be expected to chart out the habits of dim-witted creatures. For simple enemies, like Goombas, Koopas, and Swoopers, finite state machines can provide a simple and quick way to create enemy attack patterns without all that nasty coding. Sunbir Gill lays out a method of designing AI systems in Microsoft Visio, outputting the charts to XML, and then translating the XML into your game as creature AI. By Sunbir Gill 6 18 WRITESIZING It wasn’t so long ago that most games featured plots and stories that could be summed up in two pages of the manual. But anyone who’s ever played METAL GEAR SOLID or 34 MORROWIND knows story has become much more than filler text. Today, many companies have on-staff writers who create the dialog, story elements, and history that flesh out the POSTMORTEM deep worlds of games. Stephen Jacobs interviews a number of top game writers to 34 TWO TIMING: TIMEGATE STUDIOS’ find out just what makes a good game KOHAN II AND AXIS & ALLIES wordsmith, and discovers that writing for After bursting onto the scene with KOHAN: IMMORTAL SOVEREIGNS, TimeGate games is nothing like writing books or movies. 18 Studios became a hot topic overnight. For its second feat, TimeGate took By Stephen Jacobs on two projects at once. Adel Chaveleh, president of TimeGate Studios, walks us through the growing pains his small company experienced as it expanded for the development of KOHAN II and AXIS & ALLIES, both of which shipped in the same quarter. By Adel Chaveleh DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS 2 GAME PLAN By Alex Handy 39 THE INNER PRODUCT By Sean Barrett [PROGRAMMING] Maiden Voyage Blending Does Not Distribute Over Lerp 4 FEEDBACK LOOP 42 PIXEL PUSHER By Steve Theodore [ART] Letters from our readers Get Some Backbone 6 HEADS UP DISPLAY 45 AURAL FIXATION By Alexander Brandon [SOUND] Acclaim Goes Under, TGS Wrap-up, and more The Unofficial Top Five Classic Game Soundtracks 9 SKUNK WORKS By Gregg Tavares 46 NECESSARY EVIL By Patrick Sweeney [BUSINESS] Virtools 3.0 Getting to Your Best Deal 56 A THOUSAND WORDS 47 GAME SHUI By Noah Falstein [DESIGN] Cryptic Studios’ and NCsoft’s CITY OF HEROES Paradigm Shifts COVER ART: PHILLIP MORALES, ENRIQUE PINA III, AND MARSHALL WOMACK OF TIMEGATE STUDIOS WWW.GDMAG.COM 1 GAME PLAN www.gdmag.com [] CMP Media, 600 Harrison St., 6th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94107 t: 415.947.6000 f: 415.947.6090 YOU CAN REACH ALEX HANDY AT [email protected] EDITORIAL EDITOR Alex Handy [email protected] DEPARTMENTS EDITOR Jill Duffy [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Brandon Sheffield [email protected] ART DIRECTOR Cliff Scorso [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MAIDEN Sean Barrett [email protected] Alexander Brandon [email protected] Noah Falstein [email protected] Steve Theodore [email protected] VOYAGE WHAT ADVISORY BOARD Hal Barwood Designer-at-Large I’M PLAYING Ellen Guon Beeman Monolith Andy Gavin Naughty Dog THE ELUSIVE FEMALE GAMER, IN HER NATIVE favored the use of Joby Otero Luxoflux Dave Pottinger Ensemble Studios habitat, has been just outside the reach of most simply “game,” it has BRATACCUS George Sanger Big Fat Inc. publishers for years. But as games spread to the long acknowledged SUNDOG Harvey Smith Ion Storm Paul Steed Microsoft masses, women are becoming more relevant to “videogame” as a real TIMEBANDITS ADVERTISING SALES the bottom line, slowly but surely. For many years, word with the same POKEMON LEAF GREEN NATIONAL SALES MANAGER some game developers, publishers, and retailers meaning. As I write this, RISE OF NATIONS Afton Thatcher e: [email protected] t: 415.947.6217 SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER, EASTERN REGION & EUROPE rationalized that women hated violence and only Microsoft Word has Ayrien Machiran e: [email protected] t: 415.947.6224 appreciated long adventure games that nurtured underlined “videogame” ACCOUNT MANAGER, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA & MIDWEST Susan Kirby e: [email protected] t: 415.947.6226 their creativity. Tell that to my fiancé, who spends with the infamous red squiggle, a sentiment ACCOUNT MANAGER, WESTERN REGION & ASIA upwards of four hours at a time in the VICE CITY echoed by the widespread refusal to eliminate the Nick Geist e: [email protected] t: 415.947.6223 ACCOUNT MANAGER, RECRUITMENT, EDUCATION & MARKETPLACE mall hacking apart valley girls with a machete. space from the nearly ubiquitous “video game” Aaron Murawski e: [email protected] t: 415.947.6227 Gamasutra.com recently ran the results of an used throughout the industry. ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MMO player survey conducted by Nick Yee. His So why isn’t “videogame” included in Merriam- ADVERTISING PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Kevin Chanel REPRINTS Julie Rapp e: [email protected] t: 510.834.4752 statistics show that female MMO players are Webster’s? If the Oxford English Dictionary can GAME GROUP MARKETING typically older than their male counterparts, a include “bootylicious,” then we can certainly find a DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS STRATEGY Michele Maguire testament to the fact that older women are more spot for our beloved and controversial “videogame.” DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Tara C. Gibb MARKETING SPECIALIST Scott Lyon likely to adapt to new game types. How’s that for Please e-mail me if you disagree. Perhaps a MARKETING COORDINATOR Yukiko Grové turning conventional wisdom on its ear? debate of semantics will provide you with some brief CMP GAME GROUP respite during the November crunch time we’ve all VP, GROUP PUBLISHER APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES Philip Chapnick Gender and Age Distribution come to know and fear. If there’s one thing that will CONFERENCE DIRECTOR, GDC Jamil Moledina Total respondents: male=2,439, female=404 ASSOCIATE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR, GDC Susan Marshall never change within the videogame industry, it’s the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, GAMASUTRA.COM Alex Dunne 30 inevitable insanity of the holiday season. May you all MANAGING EDITOR, GAMASUTRA.COM Simon Carless 25 enjoy your turkey day without a phone call from Q/A. CIRCULATION 20 CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Kevin Regan e: [email protected] 15 SETTING SAIL CIRCULATION MANAGER Peter Birmingham e: [email protected] ASST. CIRCULATION MANAGER Lisa Oddo e: [email protected] 10 As you may have noticed, Jamil Moledina is now CIRCULATION COORDINATOR Jessica Ward e: [email protected] 5 entage of Respondents holding sway over the Game Developer Conference, SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES rc 0 and aiming his considerable talents at improving Pe > 12-17 18-22 23-28 29-35 35 FOR INFORMATION, ORDER QUESTIONS, AND ADDRESS CHANGES Age Range the already terrific event. As a result, I, dear t: 800.250.2429 or 847.763.59581 f: 847.763.9606 Male Female readers, have been granted the supreme e: [email protected] executive power of editing this most honorable of INTERNATIONAL LICENSING INFORMATION Mario Salinas publications. Fortunately for me, I’m joining a staff e: [email protected] t: 650.513.4234 f: 650.513.4482 WRITE NOW of incredibly talented and intelligent co-editors. EDITORIAL FEEDBACK This month we’re taking a look at the place of the I’m not the only newbie here at Game [email protected] CMP MEDIA MANAGEMENT writer in the game development process. While Developer. Brandon Sheffield, who some of you PRESIDENT & CEO Gary Marshall writers were here long before MMOs, they’ve found may recognize from insertcredit.com, will be EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CFO John Day EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & COO Steve Weitzner quite a niche in writing histories, myths, and lore for helping us keep a watchful eye on Japan. His EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE SALES & MARKETING Jeff Patterson massivelies. A backstory is remarkably important in knowledge of the Japanese language should give CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER Mike Mikos SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS Bill Amstutz MMOs, and the divide between traditional game us the chance to play some strange and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES Leah Landro writing and MMO story writing is enormous. interesting games from that far off land. I’m VP/GROUP DIRECTOR INTERNET BUSINESS Mike Azzara Hiring a full-time game writer is certainly a proud to be a part of this excellent team, and VP & GENERAL COUNSEL Sandra Grayson VP, COMMUNICATIONS Alexandra Raine change from 20 years ago, as is the idea of hope you enjoy the new flavor we’re bringing to PRESIDENT, CHANNEL GROUP Robert Faletra maintaining a 24-hour crisis team to patch holes the magazine. PRESIDENT, CMP HEALTHCARE MEDIA Vicki Masseria * VP, GROUP PUBLISHER INFORMATIONWEEK MEDIA NETWORK Michael Friedenberg in server code. But then, change is constant in our VP, GROUP PUBLISHER ELECTRONICS Paul Miller industry, as Noah Falstein points out in this VP, GROUP PUBLISHER NETWORK COMPUTING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE GROUP Fritz Nelson VP, GROUP PUBLISHER SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MEDIA Peter Westerman month’s Game Shui, on page 47. VP, DIRECTOR OF CUSTOM INTEGRATED MARKETING SOLUTIONS Joseph Braue The more things change, however, the more they CORPORATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Shannon Aronson CORPORATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Michael Zane stay the same. It’s been 30 years, and the industry CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PUBLISHING SERVICES Marie Myers has yet to agree on a single word to describe electronic games. I’ve always advocated the use of the word “videogame” as an umbrella term for Alex Handy Game Developer all digital games, and while Game Developer has Editor is BPA approved 2 NOVEMBER 2004 | G AME DEVELOPER WWW.CMPGAME.COM []FEEDBACK LOOP E-MAIL YOUR FEEDBACK TO [email protected], OR WRITE US AT GAME DEVELOPER, 600 HARRISON ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 THEY ALREADY MADE THAT WHEEL 30.
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