Facing the Risk of Elimination Without Iteration?Optimizing the Entire Industrial Pipeline Process!
Game industrialization refers to the process of standardization, automation, platformization, and digitization in game development workflows. This trend raises the bar for game production, ushering in an era of high-quality competition. Under this trend, games are expected to meet the demands of niche enthusiasts in various specialized areas.
Failure to iterate puts you at risk of being left behind.
As players become increasingly demanding in terms of game quality, the refinement of games has become a prevailing trend in the industry. Moreover, with the growing size and escalating costs of game development, a shift towards more industrialized production methods is essential. Standardized production processes, management systems, and production tools are crucial for achieving efficient game development. This not only ensures positive word-of-mouth but also generates substantial revenue.
Therefore, it is crucial to establish an efficient game industrialization pipeline as soon as possible. The game industrialization pipeline manages various aspects of game development, including game design, programming, art design, sound design, and more. These aspects involve a vast amount of digital assets.
In game development, digital assets are fundamental components. Efficient digital asset management assists developers in organizing and managing these assets effectively. By adopting standardized production processes, management systems, and production tools, game developers can achieve high productivity while maintaining a good reputation and maximizing revenue.
In other words, achieving efficient digital asset management is the key to an efficient game industrialization pipeline.
According to research conducted by authoritative institutions, excellent digital asset management software can significantly enhance team collaboration, communication, search, and sharing efficiency, ultimately improving overall team productivity by 20% to 25%. Furthermore, companies utilizing digital asset management software have reported at least a 10% reduction in content production costs, with an average decrease of 28% in asset production costs!
As an intelligent digital asset management collaborative platform, Share Creators aims to help businesses and teams intelligently manage their digital assets, thus significantly enhancing the efficiency of the industrialization pipeline.
Whether it's game development, virtual environments, or 3D modeling, Share Creators provides comprehensive support for any project or product, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. In fact, it has been tested and proven to achieve an impressive 63% improvement in overall efficiency, surpassing industry standards.
Now, let's take a closer look at how Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software plays a pivotal role in different stages of the game industrialization process:
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Game Industrialization: Stage One –
Accumulation, Integration, and Platformization
This stage emphasizes not only the accumulation of technological expertise but also the accumulation of digital assets.
During this phase, it is crucial to focus on the accumulation of client-side and server-side technologies and assets. This process establishes a set of advantageous development templates, such as open-world MMO development templates, seamless large world MMO development templates, MOBA development templates, and more.
However, this accumulation process also results in an influx of a massive amount of digital asset resources.
As your business grows, your content and digital asset library will experience exponential growth. Managing large files and asset libraries becomes a challenge, as it becomes increasingly difficult for team members to find valuable files, hindering efficient asset reuse and standardization.
To address this issue, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive "inventory" of existing digital assets and establish a "digital library." This preparation and accumulation are vital for the effective operation of the overall pipeline process.
Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software effortlessly assists you in inventorying and accumulating digital assets by establishing a comprehensive "digital library." This serves as the foundation for all subsequent activities.
Through features such as the asset library bird's-eye view, AI-powered intelligent search, and high-speed preview in multiple formats, users can easily locate, store, and share the digital assets they require. This simplifies the task of maintaining a consistent strategy from the preparatory stage, ensuring stylistic unity across the entire project.
Platformization: An essential prerequisite for technological and stylistic standardization
Platformization is a concept that has emerged in the internet field in recent years. It has now become one of the critical enabling factors for game industrialization.
The rapid development model of small teams hinders the accumulation of work experience. Each team or project follows its own unique technological approaches, ideas, practices, and project initiation methods, leading to variations in the development process and potential resource waste.
For successful game industrialization, "platformization" helps reduce resource wastage. It involves standardizing common technological practices and creating style guides for art design that can be applied to different projects.
In the game production process, common tools used in upstream pipeline processes, such as Photoshop and After Effects, as well as essential game engines like Unreal and Unity, and production tools like SVN and Perforce for code control, are indispensable.
Is there a platformization tool that can effectively integrate these diverse tools?
Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software offers extensive integrations, enabling teams to seamlessly leverage their preferred applications, tools, and software through a unified workflow and user interface. Share Creators also supports a standardized Python API interface, assisting customers in customizing their development process.
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Game Industrialization:
Stage Two - Advanced Workflows and Supply Chains
During this stage, game developers learn from advanced industry workflows, integrate outsourced assets, optimize supply chain resources, and enhance internal art process standards.
More advanced workflows and efficient asset reuse
Advanced workflows play a significant role in game production, as they improve production efficiency, quality, and user experience. They encompass superior tools, software, techniques, and more streamlined processes and organizational structures. These elements enable faster game development, streamlined resource management, effective error detection and correction, and overall efficient project initiation, resource planning, production, and utilization.
In practical game development, advanced workflows require efficient management of digital assets using tools and software.
Efficient asset reuse is a critical factor in reducing production costs and increasing overall profitability. For example, reusing models of rocks, vegetation, and texture material libraries can significantly improve efficiency. Streamlined digital asset management is an integral part of advanced workflows, facilitating efficient asset reuse:
Quickly locate required resources
Share Creators incorporates industry-leading AI-powered recognition capabilities that intelligently analyze resource files.
With powerful AI tags combined with custom personal tag libraries and team tag pools, search accuracy is substantially enhanced.
Multiple search methods are provided, allowing users to search by color, name, tag, file type, file size, composition, upload time, and other attributes.
Through seamless integration of AI search and AI tagging into Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software, AI technology improves overall digital asset utilization efficiency by over 60%.
Swiftly preview all resources
Game production pipelines often involve collaboration among multiple team members, projects, and tasks. Consequently, multiple file formats are present. Game developers often need to purchase multiple software solutions to meet the demands of collaborative work (Maya, Max, Zbrush, Blender, Photoshop, Substance Designer, Unity, Unreal, etc.). Unfortunately, this mixture of software impedes efficiency.
Platformization tools in advanced workflows must support multiple formats, including high-speed preview of large 3D engineering files such as Maya and 3D Max, as well as hundreds of other file types such as 2D images, 3D FBX/OBJ, 2D-SPINE animations, videos, audios, PPT, Word, and more. These requirements can be effortlessly fulfilled by Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software.
Tests have shown that Share Creators' high-speed preview functionality saves 40% of the time compared to using multiple software solutions.
Convenient and secure sharing:
During game development, designing frameworks, gameplay, systems, levels, determining plots, characters, maps, and collaborating with outsourcing partners involve substantial art and sound production, as well as programming development. Swift and secure sharing of massive amounts of digital assets internally and externally becomes a challenge, significantly affecting collaborative development efficiency.
To improve overall game industrialization pipeline efficiency, it is essential to facilitate the smooth flow of material resources.
Let's explore how Share Creators' fast sharing feature addresses this challenge:
Directly select single files or entire folders for sharing from the user-friendly interface.
Set sharing permissions, such as view-only or editing access, providing overall control over the usage rights of existing digital assets while meeting specific requirements.
Users can encrypt, watermark, or set expiration dates for shared assets, ensuring the security of shared files.
Information regarding shared resources, such as name, sharing time, sharer/team, links, and passwords, is displayed clearly. The status button allows users to disable shared resources at any time.
Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software enables users to share assets with internal and external collaborators without the need for additional software installations. This improves overall collaboration efficiency by over 60%.
Always stay up to date with the latest versions
Version control is a crucial component of game development workflows. It involves tracking the change history of code, assets, and documents. Version control systems help developers organize code and resources, collaborate, prevent conflicts, revert erroneous changes, and compare and merge different versions.
Share Creators automatically detects newly added and modified files in the local workspace for uploading. It provides local and remote file comparison preview and conflict resolution functionalities, facilitating convenient and clear resource and code sharing among team members. This significantly enhances internal and external team collaboration efficiency.
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Game Industrialization: Stage Three –
AI Technology Application in Game Products
AI technology has become a promising solution to overcome the "impossible triangle" of high quality, low cost, and short time. Its applications have had a tremendous impact on productivity within the game industry. AI technology finds extensive use in game products, assisting developers in enhancing game quality, improving gameplay enjoyment and challenge, and increasing realism:
AI characters: AI technology enables intelligent and lifelike control of AI characters in games.
Game automation: AI technology automates certain aspects of game development, such as generating game maps, creating game levels, and generating game enemies automatically.
Intelligent systems in games: AI technology helps create intelligent systems within games, such as security and anti-cheat systems, by analyzing game data to identify and prevent cheating behaviors, thereby enhancing fairness and safety.
Game AI battles: AI technology improves the intelligence and challenge of in-game battles. AI characters adapt to player behavior using machine learning algorithms, providing a more authentic and immersive gaming experience.
Seamless integration of AIGC with advanced workflows
AIGC technology has already found applications in game development, enabling developers to improve development efficiency, reduce labor costs, and utilize AI technology to generate content automatically. This breakthrough has significantly enhanced productivity within the game industry.
By seamlessly integrating AIGC with the digital asset management system, Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software now supports two forms of AIGC: image synthesis from text and text generation from images. Users can select AI-generated images and further refine their choices through image synthesis, ultimately creating images that meet their specific requirements. AI-generated works can be extended, edited, saved, and shared within Share Creators, fully integrating and enhancing the collaboration between AIGC and advanced workflows.
With the continuous development and application of AIGC technology, more AIGC techniques are expected to be incorporated into game development, further integrating with the overall game development process, and bringing greater efficiency and advantages to game development.
The above represents the role played by Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software at various stages of game industrialization. It ensures that the entire industrialization pipeline maintains a high level of efficiency and rigorous collaborative modes, enabling the creation of more advanced game development processes.
Currently, numerous game developers and studios worldwide are using Share Creators' intelligent digital asset management software to enhance their digital asset management efficiency. Many successful examples demonstrate that Share Creators has become a powerful tool for improving efficiency in the industrialization pipeline.
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