Emergent

White Papers

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  Gamebryo Build vs. Buy Part 1: Understanding Risk

  A series of articles and tools explore the common game developer’s dilemma: build your own game engine, or buy one off-the-shelf?  Read about how to evaluate projects to help determine whether your team should build or buy. Includes a game development project evaluation worksheet for brainstorming.

  Gamebryo_BuildVsBuy_Part1-Risks.pdf
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  Gamebryo Build vs. Buy Part 1: Game Project Evaluation Worksheet

  Game Development Project Evaluation Worksheet to analyze costs.

  Gamebryo_BuildVsBuy_Part1-GameProject_EvaluationWorksheet.xls
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  Gamebryo Build vs. Buy Part 2: Total Cost of Ownership

  A series of articles and tools explore the common game developer’s dilemma: build your own game engine, or buy one off-the-shelf?  Read about how to evaluate projects to help determine whether your team should build or buy. Includes a game development project evaluation worksheet for brainstorming.

  Gamebryo_BuildVsBuy_Part2-Costs.pdf
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  Building a Mindset for Rapid Iteration

  Building fun interactive games is a challenge when “fun” can’t be planned. Constant tweaks and changes can often cause game developers to lose sight of that magic something that makes a game addictively playable—until it’s too late to fix it.  This white paper explains how rapid iteration of changes can help developers keep “fun” in the mix.

  Building a Mindset for Rapid Iteration.pdf
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  Floodgate Technical Brief

  In this white paper, Emergent engineers explore the knotty problems of cross-platform and multi-core game design, and in a technical brief, explain how Gamebryo’s Floodgate technology unpicks these problems.

  Floodgate Technical Brief.pdf