www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20180117/313211/The_cost_of_games.php

Think of the whole industry as a mature market. We’re running out of platforms shifts that reset costs.

Get good at systemic design, design for retention, design for community. Basically, think like an MMO developer. Yeah, that means designing everything as games as a service.

Embrace procedur-ality.

But also embrace brand-building and marketing, because you ain’t gonna survive without it. This market is going keep getting more crowded.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118043598?categoryid=3996&cs=1&cmpid=RSS

On “Avatar,” the vfx team at Weta couldn’t directly import the “template” footage that came from the virtual shoot. Instead, they’d have to re-create the digital scenes and characters from scratch. On the sequels, Weta will be able to bring that template in as a low-res version of the scene and start working on upgrading the image without having to start over.

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