NDLI: Asking the impossible on SSX: creating 300 tracks on a ten track budget

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Howard, Caleb Lemus, Carlos
Abstract	The world created for the latest release of the snowboarding game SSX posed the challenge of delivering massively increased volumes of content over previous releases without increasing the budget. The success of the game depended on drawing a new audience into an experience equal in scale and quality to the current generation of gaming console, while remaining true to the expectations of a large existing fan base. To retain the essential flavor of the game for the fans, while generating ten-to-twenty times the content required not only a new pipeline for content generation, but a whole new way of thinking about how content is created. To accomplish this, we implemented an evolving procedural pipeline. This type of approach is still relatively uncommon in game production, and so it required an educational process in parallel to the technical development. This talk discusses the technical, cultural, and production challenges faced in the creation of the massive world of SSX.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	1
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF MP4
ISBN	9781450316835
DOI	10.1145/2343045.2343090
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-08-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Audio Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Asking the impossible on SSX: creating 300 tracks on a ten track budget