Wednesday, 14 September 2016

LO1-Sumo digital research

I got all this information from Sumo Digital website
Structure of sumo digital

This is the structure of sumo digital this is who runs the company and who has the most power over the other workers. Carl Caver is the CEO of the company which means he needs to be responsible for a; of them below him he found the company in 2003 an now the company is a well-known one for doing amazing digital games. This is the structure table the higher you are the more responsibilities you take on and more work you have to do. It also gives us a indication of who gets paid more money because if the person is higher and has more people below them then they usually get more money.
The structure of sumo digital is strong and very committed they have experts in every background and are very dedicate to give the customers there best quality content. The structure has to work together and all have to flow because if one person doesn’t do his job the person above him will have to do it. It all need to flow because everyone gets a project and if all the projects are completed then it will all go smoothly. The planning is like the foundations for the game. A good idea makes a strong foundation and can have a lot of improvement towards the game. Paul Porter also the COO so he’s above Daren Mills.

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The platform technology is very important because the more platforms they can get the more games they can make and more games they can sell. The wider the target audience the more revenue for the company they specifically go for more consoles as Sumo Digital is the only company in the world to produce games for the PlayStation and the Xbox. They create games for phones and tablets but they are more app based games. Sumo digital does make games for android which can cover the likes of Samsung phones and many other phones which use android also they do make them for IOS which is for more Apple product like IPod, IPhone and IPad this makes sumo digital able to have customers from android and IOS. I had to do some research and I found out that sumo digital do make games for Microsoft window and Blackberry also Nintendo which I didn’t know but this makes the liable to reach out the gamers on PC and Nintendo WII. Sumo digital like to keep updated so they make games that are only on next generation so they can keep up to their competitors and compete for the best games of the year. This does mean that they will only do games for Xbox One and PS4. The more platforms they can use the more revenue the company receives.
Platform Technology
I visited this site on the 28th of September 2015 2:52pm his gave me information abut the website and what it does for customers
http://www.sumo-digital.com/#
this website helped me understand the platforms they use as a games company and what platforms they can upload there game on.
I looked into sumo digital and what games they have made. They have made the games like forza 2 and little big planet  3 the platforms they use Xbox 360 for forza 2 and little big planet is mainly played on PlayStation.
they make games just for Xbox one like Xbox fitness this is the only platform they make this game on however you do need a Xbox Kinect to use this game and to activate loads of the moves.
Driver 76 is only made for PSP in 2007

Game types

The game type is very important to get right especially at this moment at time because if you do not bring out the right content out you can’t get the right amount of customers and can’t make profit. If people want sport it needs to be a game what is sport related. There are many game types and many people like different types so more you do the better it will be for the company.
some of the game types that sumo are very committed are action and adventure and kids cartoon games.


Technology


Genre


These all give the customers a bigger variety for them so they can pick what they fancy. So they can enjoy there gaming. Sumo digital do a lot of types of games.



Multi-platform

Sumo digital do the same games for Xbox and PC this is called multi-platform this means they make a game for one console and then its available on different devices this makes it available for many more people. The benefits of this is that sumo digital can promote their games on more than one device. The problem with games now is the barrier that prevents two people who buy the same game, with the same features, made by the same developer and publisher, for the same price, from playing with or against each other simply because they're on competing platforms. It exists for no real reason, other than that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo feel the need to guard their walled-garden ecosystems. It’s a shame that walled-off, platform-specific online systems are still accepted as the norm in 2015, and that platform owners show no signs of movement toward a system for open, cross-platform play, even as online gaming becomes more than ever. Sumo Digital are the only company which do PS4 and Xbox for the same game so they have it in two devices and can make more moves forward than there competitors.

Regulatory bodies

PEGI is the number on a games review to show the customer what age should actually be playing this game and what the game content is all about. Most of Sumo Digital makes racing and fictional games which are not a high rating however they put it on the case or review to give the customer an idea of who the game is for.

A regulatory agency (also regulatory authority, regulatory body or regulator) is a public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.

Developments Software

As the games get produce Sumo digital needs clients to help them get the game out in the first place they have clients like EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Activision, BBC, SEGA, Microsoft studios, Disney interactive studios, Sony online these all help the software be developed. They code all the games as it should be but this software they use is really high tech what is really complicated. The development process for one of these games takes a long time to make like little big planet it takes a long time because they have to find new ways to improve the game and add new features when on the game.



Dave is 1 of 3 art managers
The company has been around since 2003 when sumo was a part of gremlin graphics but gremlin graphics was bought by another company. Sumo digital has done really well and now has 220 employees because in 2005 there was only 56 employees as Dave joined sumo digital in 2005. They have 40 employees in puma India.
Sumo digital has licensed development for all platform including Xbox One and PS4. Since 2003 they have made 50 game plus. One of the games they was really successful is little big planet three. They won an award for the game. As sumo digital is a small company surprisingly they have a high metacritique score this means they have successful games. Sumo was the first western developer to get an arcade game on console. Saga came to sumo to get an idea for a new game with well-known characters. They developed for the Kinect when it came out. As sumo digital has amazing ideas they are making everything for Disney 3.0 this means they make the likes of the characters and the race tracks for the game and will make some more in the future for Pixar. They made Forza two and worked with turn 10 to make the game for Xbox 360. As Sony passed over the rights to sumo to make little big planet they let the world know so then sumo will be recognized when the new game comes out. As sumo has the rights for little big planet they added many new and interesting features to the game to make it more enjoyable. Sumo is showcasing on multiple screen gameplay. Sumo made two versions of All Stars. As sumo makes games for many platforms they said that it takes more effort to make a game for the mobile app than console.  They used superstars from American fitness tracks to get people to buy it also to get the best content. They also used their moves from their own tracks to create a great exercise game.
The roles in the games industry.
Concept artist, takes the content of the game designs documents, and visualizes it into ‘concept art’. This relates the needs good art skills to draw the characters.
Character art, they make the characters for the game, they have many tools like 3d studio macs and use many other 3D software. There must be enough detail in the drawings for the game to get realistic character.
Environment artist, these people explore many places and different surfaces for the games background also they will include it into the game.
Animator, they can make the character move and give the life, they have more freedom if in a movie but if in a game they have to work on each movement for each button which takes a long time.
Graphic art, typography and fonts and chines characters. The design of the home page and the user interface.
Technical artist, they will right the scripts and will make the base for the design like the bone for a character shades to edit the surface of the character.
VFX artist, they create the special effects for the game so with out them the game would not look as good and wouldn’t be interesting.
Lead Artist, this is an early layer of management, they do all the prep work and will find or pick out the best images for their game and create the game ideas before they even start making the game.
Level designer, builds up the levels for the game and gives the other employees a base for their game. They will position object for the game for example like parts in a room.
Mission designer, they will play the game and play it so they will understand the game and the way it plays so they can point out the pros and cons.
Lead designer, all the lead positioned will get together to make the game and gie each other ideas.
Programmer, these programmers need a degree in computer science and they code all the game.
Render programmer, they will deal with the way the computer design is shown. Amazing visuals and realistic images.
AI programmers, these control how the characters move and operate.
Network programmer, they work with gaming communication between other consoles so for example like playing your mates across the world or cities.
Physics Programmer, they control the movements of all the objects in the game. For example like the rubber of the tire on the race track or shattered glass or the bullets going through the wall.
Lead Programmer, he just controls all the programmers and communicates between all the other lead positions.
Sound designer, they create the sound for the game and make the sound really interesting sound.
QA test team, these people test the game daily to see the improvements and see if it is good enough for the public to play on.
As sumo has got bigger they have many groups on many projects and this means if you want to work for them than you need to be a good team player. You need to communicate between each section.
Sumo are a studio for higher producers comes with a budget and they create the ideas they need for the game.



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