Emergence in video game production

This article is interested in the creative practices in video game production. More specifically, the research focuses on the ways in which the use of game engines - a toolkit that offers a set of functionalities to automatize the handling of a range of processes (graphics, sound, game physics, networks, artificial Intelligence) - make possible or impossible certain forms of emergences in video games production. The manipulation of objects in these game engines is done according to a certain programming paradigm. Two main programming paradigms currently govern the internal design of game engines: object-oriented/inheritance-based deep-class hierarchical design and component-based data-driven design. We will describe how different programming paradigms lend themselves to certain affordances to explore the ways in which game workers can interface with game engines. We will use the framework developed by Gilbert Simondon on the artisanal and industrial stage or mode of production. This will enable a better understanding of the technogenesis of different kinds of game engines and the ways in which they can be conceptualized as technical individuals enduring through their associated milieus. This way of describing game engines emphasizes non-anthropocentric forms of creativity and specific modalities of emergent techno-human processes that are too often underestimated in various accounts of cultural production processes

Affordance · Game art design · Game design · Game design document · Game Developer · Game development tool · Game mechanics · Game programming · Game testing · Game theory · Human–computer interaction · Metagaming · Multimedia · Non-cooperative game · Simultaneous game · Video game · Video game design · Video game development · Artificial Intelligence in Games · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Digital Games and Media

• The Business and Culture of Digital Games

  Aphra Kerr•The Business and Culture of…•2006

  Incluir item

• The Language of New Media

  Лев Манович, Lev Manovich•Canadian Journal of Communication•2002

  Incluir item

• Gilbert Simondon and the philosophy of the transindividual

  Muriel Combes•Gilbert Simondon and the…•2013

  Incluir item

• Sonic and Visual Structures

  Nicolas Schoffer•Leonardo•1985

  Incluir item