Unit
1: Pre-Production techniques for the creative media industries – Finance – Task
1
Hardware
Unreal
Development Kit – this development kit is very popular in the gaming
industry due to the fact that hundreds of games have been made through this development
kit.
The unreal development kits are free, but you will have to
pay royalties when your game is released. If you earn £3000, you have to pay 5%
to ‘Unreal’.
The minimum
requirements for Unreal Development Kit are:
Processor: 2.0+ GHz processor
RAM: 2 GB system RAM
Hard Drive Space: 3
GB free hard drive space
Operating System: Windows
XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows Vista 64 SP2
Unity
Development Kit – this development kit is also very popular due to the
high quantity and quality of games produced that were created on this kit.
There are version that are free, but some features aren’t available to those
users unless they pay.
The minimum
requirements for the Unity Development Kit are:
OS: Windows XP+, Mac OS X 10.7+, Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities;
generally everything made since 2004
should work.
CPU: SSE2 instruction set support.
Web player supports IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and others.
iOS: requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Android: OS 2.3.1 or later; ARMv7 (Cortex) CPU or Atom CPU;
OpenGL ES 2.0 or later.
WebGL: Desktop version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari
Windows Phone: 8 (available but deprecated for 5.2), 8.1 or
later
Windows Store Apps: 8 (available but deprecated for 5.2),
8.1 or later
This development kit costs £75 a month if you have the
professional kit, but there are other kits to choose from such as the free
version.
Game Maker
Studio – this development kit is more for starter game
developers and it only can produce 2D games. This kit is free, but there’s a
professional and a collection version which requires payment. It also costs to
port your game to consoles and devices.
The minimum
requirements for Game Maker Studio are:
Program:
Windows XP or above
512MB RAM
128MB graphics
Screen resolution of 1024×600
Internet connection for some features
Windows:
Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
512MB RAM
128MB graphics
Mac OS X
Mac OS X computer required for export
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
1GB RAM
Autodesk
Maya 2015 – this development kit is mainly used to create and
modify models for a game and render them. This kit is free, but there are
alternative options.
The minimum
requirements for Autodesk Maya 2015 are:
Operating system
Microsoft Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
Professional operating system
Apple Mac OS X 10.8.5 and 10.9.x operating system
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 WS operating system
Fedora 14 Linux operating system
CentOS 6.2 Linux operating system
Browser
These browsers are recommended to be the most recent
version.
Apple Safari web browser
Google Chrome web browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser Mozilla Firefox web browser
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