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| 2s | hey everyone my name is jason i'm a |
| 3s | community manager at coffee stain |
| 4s | studios and you know what game |
| 6s | developers use a lot of tools when |
| 8s | they're making games and uh probably |
| 9s | more than you even realized and so i |
| 11s | thought it might be interesting to show |
| 12s | you all every tool that we use to make |
| 15s | satisfactory i say every tool it's more |
| 16s | like most tools there's probably some |
| 18s | that's uh you know been missed but this |
| 20s | is a pretty comprehensive list and by |
| 22s | tools i specifically mean individual |
| 24s | pieces of software i'm not gonna go down |
| 25s | the rabbit hole of like plugins uh and |
| 27s | i'm not really gonna cover hardware |
| 28s | either and so what i'm going to do is |
| 30s | i'm going to group up the tools by |
| 31s | discipline and which means that i may be |
| 32s | repeating some tools and that's because |
| 34s | different disciplines use the same tools |
| 36s | but for different reasons and in |
| 37s | different ways and i thought it might be |
| 39s | interesting to highlight that and |
| 40s | there'll be like a timeline here so you |
| 41s | can skip to any specific discipline if |
| 43s | you want to find out what do the |
| 45s | programs use what do 3d artists use or |
| 47s | you can just sit and watch the whole |
| 48s | thing up to you but it's going to be a |
| 49s | long one yeah so this is going to be a |
| 51s | big old list so i'm just going to keep |
| 52s | things quite brief i'm just going to |
| 53s | talk about what tools we use what they |
| 55s | do how we use them and then uh you know |
| 58s | and show you some satisfactory stuff |
| 60s | inside those tools as well which might |
| 62s | be interesting to get some |
| 63s | behind-the-scenes looks at some things |
| 65s | so hopefully this is going to be |
| 66s | interesting or exciting for you whether |
| 67s | or not you're a satisfactory fan to see |
| 69s | the behind-the-scenes stuff or if you're |
| 70s | an aspiring game developer or an actual |
| 72s | game developer you're just curious about |
| 74s | what we're using or maybe it's like 2 am |
| 76s | and youtube recommended this to you for |
| 78s | some reason and you're just here and if |
| 80s | that's the case that's fine too hello my |
| 83s | name is jason i'm a community manager at |
| 84s | coffee stain studios we work on an open |
| 86s | world factory building and exploration |
| 88s | game called satisfactory if after |
| 90s | watching this video you're interested in |
| 91s | checking the game out there'll be links |
| 92s | in the description below uh for where |
| 94s | you can find it all right let's do this |
| 95s | vamanos so before we get into discipline |
| 98s | specific stuff before we get into the |
| 99s | meat and potatoes let's just do some |
| 101s | general tools that everyone is using |
| 103s | every day pretty much so the first tool |
| 105s | that i'm going to mention is of course |
| 106s | going to be unreal engine 4 we use |
| 107s | unreal engine 4 to make satisfactory so |
| 110s | if you don't really know what a game |
| 111s | engine actually is it's just essentially |
| 112s | a suite of tools that provide you uh |
| 115s | yeah tools in order to like render stuff |
| 117s | or play audio or do animations |
| 118s | programming just that's essentially what |
| 120s | it is and so engines don't necessarily |
| 122s | have to have fancy ui or anything to |
| 124s | them but unreal engine is actually just |
| 126s | kind of like a general purpose tool that |
| 127s | can be used to to make many different |
| 129s | kinds of games or applications and so it |
| 131s | has like a nice interface and a lot of |
| 132s | extra tools in it as well the next tool |
| 134s | that everybody uses is google google |
| 136s | search of course so like you know we're |
| 137s | always learning we sometimes run into |
| 139s | problems we can't figure out and we need |
| 140s | to google things to find maybe |
| 142s | documentation or message boards where |
| 144s | other people have like helped others |
| 145s | solve certain problems so google is a |
| 147s | huge part for pretty much everyone |
| 149s | across the uh all disciplines in game |
| 151s | development yeah if there's something |
| 152s | you don't know ask google sensei next up |
| 154s | is perforce perforce is a version |
| 156s | control software and basically that just |
| 157s | means everyone can submit their work and |
| 159s | their changes to the game to the uh |
| 161s | before server and that keeps track of |
| 163s | all the submissions that everyone has |
| 164s | made and can help with like merging any |
| 166s | sort of conflicts or anything like that |
| 168s | as well so that way everyone can just |
| 170s | you know get their latest files from the |
| 171s | server so they can be working with |
| 173s | everyone's latest work or even roll back |
| 175s | to previous versions if we need to |
| 176s | unreal gamesync is just a tool that ties |
| 178s | in with the before server and just |
| 180s | provides like a nice interface for |
| 181s | syncing unreal engine 4 projects we use |
| 184s | microsoft 365 internally at coffeestain |
| 187s | to varying degrees of reluctance but uh |
| 189s | we do okay so like that means just the |
| 191s | entire suite of microsoft products you |
| 193s | know that do various different things so |
| 195s | for example like sharepoint for our |
| 197s | intranet we use onedrive for file |
| 199s | sharing and storage uh we use outlook |
| 201s | inbox and calendar for scheduling events |
| 203s | and emails microsoft word powerpoint uh |
| 206s | you know all that kind of stuff uh teams |
| 208s | for chatting and file sharing as well |
| 210s | and we also use forums to uh collect |
| 212s | information internally or externally and |
| 214s | as for the microsoft office stuff like |
| 216s | word and excel and all that um we'll |
| 218s | talk more about those specifically later |
| 220s | in each discipline because different |
| 221s | disciplines use those for different |
| 223s | reasons and yeah we'll cover that a |
| 224s | little later we use monday.com which is |
| 226s | essentially just a task management tool |
| 228s | or planning tool uh and everyone just |
| 230s | uses monday.com to keep track of the |
| 231s | tasks that they have assigned to them |
| 233s | wireguard is a like vpn software and so |
| 236s | we use wireguard to set up vpns uh and |
| 238s | to allow us to connect to our internal |
| 241s | uh network at the office from home which |
| 243s | has been obviously very useful for us |
| 245s | during the pandemic and lastly we use |
| 247s | steam epic and humble these are just |
| 248s | basically where we distribute and market |
| 250s | our games but steam and epic also |
| 252s | provide a bunch of tools that we use for |
| 254s | uh certain tools and services for like |
| 256s | networking and things like that to get |
| 257s | the game running okay so moving on to |
| 259s | our first actual discipline of people |
| 260s | we're gonna be talking about the |
| 261s | programmers or i like to call them the |
| 264s | pro gamers so our programmers obviously |
| 266s | use unreal engine for their programming |
| 267s | in c plus |
| 269s | native code uh or also in blueprints as |
| 271s | well which is a visual scripting |
| 272s | language kind of in uh built into unreal |
| 275s | engine and uh so some people sometimes |
| 277s | ask us do your programs use c plus plus |
| 278s | or blueprint for the most part they they |
| 281s | prefer native so c plus plus uh |
| 283s | programming that's generally where most |
| 285s | of the programming work gets done |
| 286s | however blueprint is like an integral |
| 288s | part of the way unreal engine works and |
| 291s | it's also a very useful tool for our ui |
| 293s | artists and designers and so our |
| 294s | programmers do need to bridge the gap |
| 297s | between native and blueprints sometimes |
| 298s | and do have to do some things in |
| 299s | blueprints it sometimes it just makes |
| 301s | sense to do things in blueprints um you |
| 304s | know just got to use the right tool for |
| 305s | the right job and of course they use |
| 306s | unreal engine for testing the game and |
| 308s | debugging the game as well our |
| 309s | programmers also use visual studio and |
| 311s | writer these are two different softwares |
| 313s | but they're both ides which stands for |
| 315s | integrated development environments |
| 316s | essentially they're just tools that |
| 318s | allow our programmers to write code |
| 320s | build the code debug it and run it also |
| 322s | a handy tool that they use is they can |
| 323s | attach their editor to the unreal engine |
| 326s | sort of editor while they're testing so |
| 327s | they can like stop the game at any point |
| 329s | at any line of code and like figure out |
| 331s | what's going on just use that as a tool |
| 332s | to help with debugging or problem |
| 333s | solving so i say we use visual studio |
| 335s | and writer |
| 336s | it's more that some people like to use |
| 338s | visual studio and some people prefer to |
| 340s | use writer we have had a few of our |
| 342s | programmers move to ryder recently they |
| 344s | sort of feel that it's sort of more |
| 345s | geared a little bit more towards game |
| 346s | development or specifically unreal |
| 348s | engine 4 but essentially these are both |
| 350s | great tools and uh it's a matter of |
| 352s | preference and people are just using |
| 353s | what they want uh yeah so we kind of |
| 355s | just use both another tool our |
| 356s | programmers use is called beyond compare |
| 358s | and beyond compare is a tool for diffing |
| 361s | and merging and what that means is that |
| 363s | when for example when a programmer wants |
| 365s | to submit their their code uh to the |
| 367s | before server they need to diff and |
| 369s | merge their files to make sure that |
| 370s | there's no conflict so sometimes |
| 372s | different people will be editing the |
| 374s | same file and so when you try to merge |
| 376s | those together you need to figure out |
| 377s | what's the what what what are the |
| 378s | differences that's the diffing and then |
| 380s | you and then how to merge the code |
| 381s | together so that it actually all still |
| 383s | works and that's the merging part so |
| 384s | beyond compare is a tool that assists |
| 386s | with that but force actually has one of |
| 388s | these tools already built in but many of |
| 389s | our programmers prefer to use beyond |
| 391s | compare they think it has a few extra |
| 392s | features and yeah they just prefer that |
| 393s | some of us still use the before uh diff |
| 395s | tools as well and lastly our programs |
| 397s | also use notepad or notepad plus plus |
| 399s | just they're just basic lightweight text |
| 401s | editors you you all probably have |
| 402s | experience with notepad notepad plus |
| 404s | plus is also a lightweight text editor |
| 406s | but has some extra features in it as |
| 407s | well that uh and is kind of geared |
| 409s | towards uh programming things like |
| 411s | syntax highlighting and stuff like that |
| 412s | as well and our programs just use that |
| 414s | to like read log files or edit config |
| 416s | files just just really sort of basic |
| 418s | stuff the next discipline we're going to |
| 419s | look at are our 3d artists probably the |
| 422s | most important tool for our 3d artists |
| 423s | that they use is called blender blender |
| 425s | is a 3d modeling and animation software |
| 427s | but it can do much more than just 3d |
| 429s | modeling and animation and we use it for |
| 431s | game ready low poly 3d models and we |
| 434s | also use it for like uh uv texture |
| 436s | unwrapping and stuff like that uvs are |
| 438s | essentially just kind of like how you |
| 440s | unwrap your 3d models into a flat |
| 442s | surface so that you can paint textures |
| 444s | over them and we use blender mostly for |
| 445s | inorganic |
| 447s | objects so uh for example factory |
| 449s | buildings in satisfactory another tool |
| 450s | that they use is substance designer |
| 453s | substance designer is kind of this like |
| 454s | node based procedural texture creation |
| 457s | tool kind of thing and basically we just |
| 459s | kind of use that to generate or create |
| 460s | textures from scratch that we then use |
| 462s | in the game and oftentimes those |
| 463s | textures go over to our next tool which |
| 465s | is substance painter substance painter |
| 467s | allows our 3d artists to apply textures |
| 469s | or materials to models to create texture |
| 472s | maps that they can then use later in the |
| 473s | game and it also has the ability for |
| 475s | artists to actually literally hand paint |
| 477s | textures on to the model directly if |
| 478s | they wanted to next up is photoshop |
| 480s | adobe photoshop everyone here kind of |
| 482s | knows what photoshop is it's like an |
| 483s | image editing |
| 484s | photo editing uh or drawing application |
| 487s | with a lot of really handy tools for it |
| 489s | basically just you know 2d raster images |
| 491s | and actually many people at the office |
| 493s | use photoshop and our 3d artists use |
| 495s | photoshop specifically for just checking |
| 496s | textures or uh maybe even doing some |
| 499s | tweaking to the textures directly |
| 500s | because minor changes to textures can be |
| 502s | done a lot quicker in photoshop rather |
| 504s | than like substance painter or designer |
| 505s | and we also use photoshop to create |
| 507s | foliage textures so like uh like leaves |
| 509s | and things like that so those you know |
| 511s | we don't really generate those |
| 513s | procedurally in substance designer we |
| 515s | would just take like actual pictures of |
| 516s | leaves so we use photoshop to make you |
| 518s | know foliage textures out of that next |
| 520s | hole is marmoset tool bag three marmoset |
| 523s | is a software that predominantly is used |
| 524s | for real-time rendering but it can do |
| 525s | some other things as well and so we use |
| 527s | marmoset essentially for baking and what |
| 530s | that means is we take a high poly model |
| 533s | uh and we would bake certain details of |
| 536s | it into texture maps like the the |
| 537s | normals or the ambient occlusion and |
| 539s | things like that and so what we can do |
| 540s | is we can capture details from a high |
| 542s | poly mesh and then put it on a low poly |
| 544s | mesh and give the low poly mesh the |
| 546s | appearance that it looks uh the |
| 548s | appearance that it has details that it |
| 550s | actually doesn't right uh and so this is |
| 552s | a pretty common technique to uh make low |
| 554s | poly meshes look better than they |
| 555s | actually are essentially another tool |
| 557s | that we have used in the past i don't |
| 558s | know if we use it too much anymore it's |
| 559s | called xnormal and this is another you |
| 561s | know texture baking software another |
| 563s | tool that 3d artists use is zbrush |
| 565s | zbrush is like a 3d high poly sculpting |
| 568s | tool so different sort of workflow to |
| 569s | how things work in blender but we use it |
| 571s | for the most part for more high poly |
| 573s | things we mainly use it for more organic |
| 576s | things as well so think like rocks or |
| 578s | alien plants or creatures or even the |
| 580s | the pioneer themselves the main the main |
| 582s | character that you play as and then we |
| 583s | use some of these high poly versions to |
| 585s | uh you know to bake them in marmoset |
| 587s | another software that we don't actually |
| 588s | use anymore but we did use for a long |
| 590s | time is autodesk maya maya is also a 3d |
| 592s | modeling and animation tool so we do we |
| 594s | don't really use maya anymore for 3d |
| 596s | modeling we pretty much do all our |
| 597s | modeling in blender now there might be a |
| 599s | few models here and there that you know |
| 601s | we still have them in maya files but for |
| 602s | the most part everything is being done |
| 604s | in blender now the last tool that al 3d |
| 606s | artists use is called pureref it's a |
| 607s | free reference board tool and what that |
| 610s | basically means is it's just a place |
| 611s | where you can just drag and drop images |
| 613s | to create a board of reference material |
| 615s | or inspiration pretty much all artists |
| 617s | use references whenever they're creating |
| 619s | any kind of uh thing and so having a |
| 621s | tool to manage their reference boards |
| 623s | and to easily create reference boards is |
| 625s | pretty important as well and pref is |
| 626s | what our 3d artists use for that so for |
| 628s | the next group we're talking about our |
| 629s | 2d artists so the first tool is like a |
| 631s | bit of a no-brainer um it's going to be |
| 633s | adobe photoshop so this is where our 2d |
| 635s | artists do a lot of their work and they |
| 637s | use it to create |
| 638s | their final production ready concept art |
| 641s | and also for any sort of like marketing |
| 643s | material that we need as well our 2d |
| 645s | artists also use procreate which is an |
| 647s | ipad only |
| 648s | drawing software and so they use that |
| 650s | for you know quick rough concepting and |
| 653s | scribbles and sketches and stuff like |
| 654s | that so i think a lot of their ideas |
| 656s | might start there |
| 657s | and so the last tool that our 2d artists |
| 659s | use is actually on religion 4. they also |
| 661s | use the engine as well they jump in |
| 662s | there |
| 664s | they use the engine to essentially block |
| 665s | things out to block out scenes or assess |
| 667s | scale between different items or |
| 669s | buildings uh before they you know go in |
| 672s | and start creating any sort of like |
| 673s | concept art that they might need to be |
| 674s | doing the next discipline is going to be |
| 676s | ui ui standing for user interface but |
| 678s | our ui artists also do ux which is user |
| 682s | experience so i they we consider them a |
| 684s | ui ux |
| 687s | beings |
| 690s | you are ux humans so our ui artists use |
| 693s | adobe illustrator actually which is um |
| 696s | something we haven't mentioned yet so a |
| 697s | lot of people know what photoshop is but |
| 699s | not as many people probably know what |
| 700s | illustrator is and they're kind of the |
| 701s | same thing they're both like image |
| 703s | creation or editing software however |
| 706s | photoshop focuses on raster images which |
| 708s | is images with pixel data like colors |
| 710s | and stuff in it think about pngs or |
| 712s | jpegs whereas illustrator focuses on |
| 714s | vector images and what vector images are |
| 717s | images that are created out of like |
| 718s | shapes and lines and curves and things |
| 720s | like that and so essentially those files |
| 722s | contain mathematical formulas that |
| 724s | recreate the images which then render to |
| 727s | your screen which is pretty fancy and |
| 729s | the main basically the main benefit of |
| 731s | this is that you can scale things up and |
| 733s | down for example and they never lose |
| 734s | quality that's one of the uh biggest |
| 736s | advantages of vector art and this could |
| 738s | be beneficial if you're thinking about |
| 739s | like print for example if you want a |
| 740s | logo on a business card or if you want |
| 742s | the logo on a billboard if it's made in |
| 744s | vector you don't have to make two |
| 745s | different versions you could just scale |
| 746s | it up or down this is also useful in |
| 749s | game dev when um you don't really know |
| 751s | how big your |
| 753s | ui elements need to be maybe they need |
| 755s | to be resized and be repurposed in other |
| 757s | ways maybe if your game ends up getting |
| 759s | like a mobile companion app and you want |
| 761s | to use the same ui elements you can |
| 762s | scale them down you don't have to |
| 763s | recreate new ones so yeah there's a lot |
| 765s | of benefits in starting in |
| 767s | adobe illustrator for ui elements and we |
| 769s | use illustrator to make all of our ui |
| 771s | elements our ui artists also use adobe |
| 773s | photoshop as well because at the end of |
| 775s | the day we will take those ui elements |
| 777s | made in illustrator those vector images |
| 779s | and we will need to convert them into |
| 781s | raster images into pngs which we can |
| 783s | then import into the engine so we use |
| 785s | photoshop to uh yeah basically export |
| 788s | them into pngs or maybe touch them up a |
| 790s | little bit if they need a little bit of |
| 792s | love or a little bit of tweaking our ui |
| 793s | artists also use unreal engine 4 and |
| 795s | this is because they not only just |
| 796s | design and draw the ui elements but they |
| 799s | also do some of the programming for it |
| 801s | as well so they need to use blueprints |
| 803s | to script the ui elements to work the |
| 805s | way that they want they use a thing |
| 806s | called umg which is basically the ui |
| 810s | tool i guess you could call it in unreal |
| 812s | engine 4 |
| 813s | like a layout tool and things like that |
| 815s | so they use umg to set up their ui |
| 817s | elements and they also work with some |
| 818s | shaders which are basically small |
| 820s | scripts or programs that run kind of on |
| 822s | the graphics card and they use that to |
| 824s | manipulate certain ui elements to do |
| 826s | certain things one example is for |
| 828s | example the fluid animation on the uh |
| 830s | like on pipes for example uh there's |
| 833s | actually no animation on the artwork of |
| 836s | that there's no waves or anything like |
| 837s | that um that's all created using shaders |
| 840s | our ui and ux people also use microsoft |
| 842s | vizio and y ed these are both like |
| 845s | flowchart and diagramming tools um we |
| 848s | for the most part pretty much use wyatt |
| 850s | now it seems like we used to use visio |
| 852s | but we don't really use it anymore |
| 853s | um |
| 854s | and we use it to create like the menu |
| 856s | flow like you know how menu should work |
| 859s | what should happen when you click on |
| 860s | buttons et cetera et cetera this is more |
| 862s | of like the ux side of things user |
| 864s | experience and uh we weren't going to |
| 865s | talk about hardware but notebooks |
| 867s | apparently we need to put notebooks on |
| 868s | this list uh they use a lot of notebooks |
| 871s | just kind of need to |
| 873s | f for the trees the next discipline that |
| 875s | i'm going to talk about is animation and |
| 876s | i actually only have one piece of |
| 878s | software here one tool to to tell you |
| 880s | guys about really and that is autodesk |
| 882s | maya so i talked about maya before with |
| 884s | our 3d artists because we used to make |
| 885s | our 3d models in maya we don't do that |
| 887s | anymore but we do still animate in maya |
| 889s | so we use maya for animation and also |
| 891s | like rigging models so that they can be |
| 893s | animated so we weren't really going to |
| 894s | talk about plugins but um you know there |
| 897s | aren't too many tools under the |
| 898s | animation section anyway so uh and i was |
| 900s | told by max our animator that animbot is |
| 903s | a worthy mention here it's something |
| 904s | that he you know really relies on and |
| 906s | it's essentially just a plug-in that |
| 907s | gives a bunch of extra tools that makes |
| 909s | animating in maya much easier and he |
| 911s | thinks that it's a great idea that if |
| 912s | you're an animator and you haven't heard |
| 914s | of animbot that maybe you should check |
| 916s | out atombot so we're just going to |
| 917s | mention that here next up is vfx so |
| 919s | visual effects so think of like |
| 921s | explosions or little particle effects on |
| 923s | the screen or anything like that and so |
| 924s | the first tool that our vfx artist uses |
| 926s | is called houdini houdini is kind of |
| 928s | like an all-in-one 3d software but it's |
| 930s | like most well known for its simulations |
| 932s | so think about like destruction or fire |
| 934s | or fluids and physics etc it is a node |
| 936s | driven and parametric software so you |
| 938s | can basically connect nodes so they can |
| 939s | create behaviors that you want you can |
| 940s | tweak them with parameters as you go and |
| 942s | so our vfx artist uses houdini to create |
| 945s | dynamic simulations which you can then |
| 947s | convert into frames of animation and |
| 949s | then you can take those frames convert |
| 950s | them into like a flipbook kind of thing |
| 952s | and then use those as images on |
| 954s | particles in the game animated images |
| 956s | essentially the next tool that our vfx |
| 958s | artist uses is blender we've mentioned |
| 960s | blender before and basically he uses |
| 962s | blender for prototyping materials |
| 964s | quickly uh before implementing them in |
| 966s | unreal engine 4 or he also uses blender |
| 968s | to create 3d meshes that he might need |
| 970s | to use for various vfx purposes our vfx |
| 974s | artist of course also uses unreal engine |
| 976s | and yeah so our vfx artist uses this for |
| 978s | you know creating materials in unreal |
| 980s | engine but also uses the niagara |
| 982s | particle system we used to use cascade |
| 984s | which was the old one but niagara is now |
| 986s | production ready so we switched to |
| 988s | niagara they also used substance |
| 990s | designer another one that we mentioned |
| 991s | earlier and he would use uh substance |
| 993s | designer to create textures but |
| 994s | specifically kind of like noise textures |
| 996s | which can be useful for various reasons |
| 999s | in vfx and lastly he also uses adobe |
| 1002s | photoshop and this is also for just |
| 1003s | tweaking textures or |
| 1005s | or noise maps and things like that next |
| 1007s | discipline that we're going to talk |
| 1008s | about is tech art now tech art this is |
| 1010s | where the real big brain happens i |
| 1012s | mean everyone is very good at what they |
| 1013s | do but the tech art is some i hope i can |
| 1015s | do it justice this is some big brain |
| 1017s | voodoo magic so like |
| 1019s | if i get anything wrong i'm sorry i'm |
| 1021s | just doing my best be kind to me in the |
| 1023s | comments please a tech artist uses |
| 1025s | visual studio code and writer uh these |
| 1027s | are both ides i mentioned before i uh |
| 1029s | writer was an ide visual studio code is |
| 1032s | one as well and these are used for |
| 1034s | programming of course um and so uh tech |
| 1036s | artists uses visual studio code when |
| 1038s | coding like tools and stuff like that |
| 1039s | but when he has to do anything regarding |
| 1041s | unreal engine 4 he tends to use ryder a |
| 1043s | tech artist also uses houdini however he |
| 1045s | uses it in a much different way than |
| 1048s | what you would sort of expect most of |
| 1049s | his work is actually done on the command |
| 1051s | line so he doesn't really open up |
| 1053s | houdini he just uses he just executes |
| 1056s | the tools that houdini has |
| 1058s | from command line using other scripts |
| 1060s | and whatever right i don't know some |
| 1062s | crazy so he uses houdini and the |
| 1063s | scripting language |
| 1065s | that it supports python uh |
| 1067s | h script and vex uh and he basically |
| 1070s | uses houdini as a tool to batch process |
| 1072s | geometry and what this sort of means is |
| 1074s | uh for example it's like mass applying |
| 1076s | data to leaves on trees for example that |
| 1080s | indicate how they should behave in the |
| 1082s | wind shader so how they should sway in |
| 1083s | the wind this could be for generating |
| 1085s | meshes or another use is converting raw |
| 1088s | animation data into vertex animation |
| 1089s | data this is for optimization purposes |
| 1092s | so that we can hopefully get better |
| 1093s | optimizations in the distance without |
| 1095s | any sort of extra overhead i'm gonna i'm |
| 1097s | not gonna pretend to understand all this |
| 1098s | stuff 100 |
| 1100s | it vaguely makes sense to me but i don't |
| 1102s | feel super comfortable explaining it all |
| 1104s | anyway he does a lot of crazy stuff with |
| 1106s | houdini he just does a lot of crazy |
| 1107s | stuff in general |
| 1108s | quite frankly tech art tech art is |
| 1110s | voodoo the next tool that our tech |
| 1111s | artist uses is python python is a |
| 1113s | scripting language and of course as i |
| 1115s | mentioned just before with houdini it |
| 1117s | can be used with houdini but he also |
| 1119s | uses python to create other just |
| 1122s | smaller uh pipeline tools or uh like a |
| 1125s | profiling tool that we use to check the |
| 1127s | performance of our game yeah so a few |
| 1129s | different uses for python a tech artist |
| 1130s | also uses blender mostly to check the |
| 1132s | other 3d artists work to see if there's |
| 1135s | any sort of optimizations he can do with |
| 1137s | the meshes to see if he can save some |
| 1138s | you know data without compromising the |
| 1141s | uh visual quality he will also use |
| 1143s | blender to create these things called |
| 1144s | imposters |
| 1147s | sauce |
| 1148s | here look |
| 1151s | and imposters are just like super super |
| 1153s | low poly meshes uh that are swapped in |
| 1157s | in place of the more high quality meshes |
| 1159s | uh when when things are in the distance |
| 1161s | so you know they're super super low |
| 1162s | quality but they still kind of visually |
| 1164s | read as what the object is supposed to |
| 1166s | be when they're really far away saves a |
| 1168s | lot of performance a tech artist also |
| 1170s | uses adobe photoshop everyone's having a |
| 1172s | go with photoshop honestly and he uses |
| 1174s | photoshop for tweaking textures or |
| 1175s | sometimes even for generating textures |
| 1177s | as well attack artist also uses |
| 1178s | substance designer for exporting |
| 1180s | textures or uses the node graph that |
| 1183s | that's available in substance designer |
| 1184s | to script and uh essentially use it as |
| 1186s | like a pipeline tool i've seen some |
| 1188s | things that he's made where he would use |
| 1189s | it to uh if he's got a bunch of textures |
| 1192s | that he wants to include in one |
| 1193s | texture he could use it to lay out the |
| 1195s | textures neatly so they don't overlap or |
| 1197s | anything like that and he doesn't have |
| 1198s | to do it manually himself just to speed |
| 1200s | up the process and lastly our tech |
| 1202s | artist uses substance painter as well |
| 1203s | and this is just for texture editing |
| 1205s | basically next discipline is going to be |
| 1206s | sound design so the first tool that our |
| 1208s | sound designer uses is called wise and |
| 1210s | wise is kind of like a middleware it's |
| 1212s | an industry standard |
| 1213s | audio engine that we use to hook into |
| 1215s | unreal engine 4 and we use that to store |
| 1217s | and control all game audio unreal engine |
| 1219s | 4 does actually have an audio engine |
| 1220s | built into it but we we just use wise |
| 1222s | instead and yeah so basically the way it |
| 1224s | sort of works is we set up a sound's |
| 1225s | property or behavior in wise and then we |
| 1227s | use unreal engine 4 to trigger the sound |
| 1230s | and wise the next tool that our sound |
| 1231s | design uses is reaper and reaper is a |
| 1233s | daw or daw which stands for digital |
| 1236s | audio workstation and essentially it's a |
| 1237s | workstation that gives a bunch of tools |
| 1239s | to do everything related to audio stuff |
| 1242s | this can be from music to sound design |
| 1244s | and we mostly use reaper for post |
| 1246s | processing sounds in order for us to |
| 1247s | create certain sounds that we were |
| 1249s | looking for vital is another software |
| 1250s | that our sound designer uses vital is a |
| 1252s | wave table synthesizer and this is a |
| 1254s | tool that allows us essentially to |
| 1256s | manipulate sound waves so you can start |
| 1257s | with simpler waves such as like sine |
| 1259s | waves or saw waves if you sort of know |
| 1261s | what those are and then you can |
| 1262s | manipulate them in ways that you want in |
| 1264s | order to generate more complex sounds |
| 1266s | and so one example is the particle |
| 1268s | accelerator from satisfactory the sound |
| 1270s | that it makes is was created using uh |
| 1272s | vital and the last thing i want to |
| 1273s | mention real quick is hardware just |
| 1275s | recording hardware in general we have a |
| 1277s | bunch of different recording hardware |
| 1278s | but i'm not going to go into detail here |
| 1280s | we weren't going to cover it but it is |
| 1281s | worth mentioning that you know recording |
| 1283s | hardware and hardware in general for |
| 1284s | sound designer is a pretty big part of |
| 1286s | their job uh not going to be covering |
| 1288s | the tools used by our composers by the |
| 1290s | way we don't actually have a composer at |
| 1292s | coffeestain we do have a couple people |
| 1294s | that we work with that we contract but |
| 1296s | yeah i'm just kind of covering the tools |
| 1297s | of the people who work with us at the |
| 1298s | studio and we don't actually have any |
| 1300s | composers at the studio not gonna be |
| 1301s | covering music or composition tools |
| 1303s | unfortunately the next discipline is |
| 1305s | going to be producers and i know when |
| 1307s | people think game developers you think |
| 1308s | artists and programmers and stuff like |
| 1310s | that but you know producers are a pretty |
| 1312s | important role when it comes to game |
| 1313s | development too and they have a bunch of |
| 1315s | tools that they use too producers do a |
| 1316s | lot of planning and things like that and |
| 1317s | so the office microsoft office suite is |
| 1320s | you know a no-brainer here so our |
| 1322s | producers are using microsoft word and |
| 1323s | excel and powerpoint etc and they use |
| 1326s | these kind of things for uh planning |
| 1328s | creating timelines |
| 1330s | presentations for the team |
| 1332s | documentation to-do's things like that |
| 1334s | and they also use you know microsoft |
| 1336s | outlook for uh emails as i mentioned |
| 1338s | before in the general uh but you know |
| 1340s | they use it even more so because they do |
| 1341s | a lot of scheduling a lot of meetings |
| 1342s | with different people and things like |
| 1343s | that so they're pretty heavy users when |
| 1345s | it comes to you know outlook and uh and |
| 1347s | calendar now even though we use |
| 1349s | microsoft products internally at |
| 1350s | coffeestain we sometimes work with other |
| 1352s | companies or people externally who don't |
| 1354s | use microsoft products and so our |
| 1356s | producers actually use the google suite |
| 1358s | or g suite quite a lot as well so that's |
| 1359s | google docs google sheets google slides |
| 1362s | uh google drive as well for example to |
| 1365s | share files um yeah and this is mainly |
| 1367s | used when communicating or interacting |
| 1369s | with people outside of coffee stain |
| 1370s | since yeah we use we use microsoft |
| 1372s | internally our producers also use slack |
| 1374s | to communicate and so internally again |
| 1376s | with microsoft we use teams but because |
| 1378s | our producers might be talking to people |
| 1380s | outside of coffeestain they sometimes |
| 1381s | need to use slack in order to do that as |
| 1383s | well now we mentioned monday.com this is |
| 1385s | a tool that our producers use quite a |
| 1386s | bit as well we mentioned monday.com in |
| 1388s | the beginning under general because |
| 1389s | everyone uses money.com but our |
| 1391s | producers are the ones who you know |
| 1393s | formulate everything there create all |
| 1395s | the scheduling the timelines they're |
| 1396s | creating a bunch of tasks organizing |
| 1398s | everything they're uh they're using |
| 1399s | monday.com in ways that the rest of us |
| 1401s | are not using it um so it's definitely |
| 1404s | worthwhile uh mentioning here that um |
| 1406s | you know our producers do use money.com |
| 1408s | to keep track of everything to plan |
| 1409s | everything next discipline is going to |
| 1411s | be game design and the first tool that |
| 1412s | our game designers use is this is a |
| 1414s | no-brainer it's going to be unreal |
| 1415s | engine 4. and basically what our game |
| 1417s | designers do is they pretty much grab |
| 1419s | everything else that everyone else has |
| 1420s | done and they glue it all together |
| 1422s | unreal engine 4 and most importantly |
| 1424s | they then make it fun so this means like |
| 1426s | integrating new content might be setting |
| 1428s | up new buildings adding them to build |
| 1430s | menus setting up uh progression for |
| 1433s | example tweaking settings yeah tweaking |
| 1435s | a bunch of things like you know use zoop |
| 1437s | limits or creature health alt recipe |
| 1439s | balancing i mean balancing factory |
| 1441s | numbers in general they also work in the |
| 1443s | engine in order to do some small |
| 1444s | adjustments to the world or for |
| 1446s | prototyping new features that they want |
| 1448s | so they use blueprints to just quickly |
| 1450s | prototype some stuff that they want to |
| 1452s | uh try out and they also use the engine |
| 1454s | to add gameplay elements to the world as |
| 1455s | well so think about like creature |
| 1456s | spawners resource nodes adding nuts and |
| 1459s | berries gas pillars collectibles you |
| 1462s | know all that kind of stuff and maybe |
| 1463s | not a lot of people would be expecting |
| 1464s | this next one but our game designers use |
| 1466s | excel a lot they use excel quite a bit |
| 1468s | they use excel basically to keep track |
| 1470s | of all the numbers all the balancing |
| 1472s | this means like the number of creatures |
| 1474s | where they should go where what how many |
| 1475s | power slugs we have you know what kinds |
| 1478s | we have where are they the ratios of all |
| 1480s | the resources yeah just basically all |
| 1482s | the information about the world is in |
| 1484s | like one or more massive sort of excel |
| 1486s | spreadsheet and then they will make |
| 1487s | changes to the excel spreadsheet based |
| 1490s | on metrics and feedback and and the |
| 1491s | planning for what they intend to do in |
| 1493s | the future next up is going to be |
| 1494s | microsoft word now they don't really use |
| 1496s | microsoft word too much anymore beyond |
| 1499s | just like basic note taking but we do we |
| 1501s | did previously use microsoft word for uh |
| 1503s | like feature proposals um in order to |
| 1506s | communicate you know intended plans to |
| 1508s | the rest of the team however this wasn't |
| 1510s | really like a very effective way to |
| 1512s | communicate all the plans just having a |
| 1514s | boring document wasn't really a great |
| 1516s | way of communicating things to the rest |
| 1518s | of the team and so that brings us to our |
| 1520s | next tool which is going to be microsoft |
| 1521s | powerpoint and so our game designers now |
| 1523s | use powerpoint to create presentations |
| 1525s | for the rest of the team uh in order to |
| 1528s | communicate features that are planned or |
| 1530s | proposed because uh conveying ideas to |
| 1532s | the rest of the team very clearly and in |
| 1533s | a concise way is very very important and |
| 1535s | yeah we find powerpoint to be a much |
| 1537s | more powerful tool to do this than than |
| 1539s | uh the microsoft word was so now they |
| 1541s | now they just do a lot of powerpoint |
| 1542s | presentations in there our game |
| 1543s | designers use photoshop this is for uh |
| 1545s | drawing over the map in order to plan or |
| 1548s | layout their future changes but they |
| 1550s | also use photoshop to uh enhance their |
| 1552s | presentations uh their powerpoint |
| 1554s | presentations as well game designers |
| 1556s | also use ms paint actually a pretty |
| 1558s | handy tool very lightweight image |
| 1559s | editing thing you'll probably know what |
| 1561s | ms paint is i don't know why i'm |
| 1562s | explaining it but actually yeah we use |
| 1563s | an s paint as well it's it's it's quick |
| 1565s | to get up and running sometimes you just |
| 1566s | need to draw over a screenshot to convey |
| 1568s | an idea |
| 1569s | and this happens fairly often so uh we |
| 1571s | figured we would include ms paint here |
| 1572s | on the list microsoft vizio which we |
| 1574s | mentioned before with the ui ux people |
| 1576s | uh is sort of like a you know diagram |
| 1578s | and flowchart kind of tool and sometimes |
| 1581s | we would use microsoft visio to create |
| 1582s | some diagrams we don't really use it too |
| 1584s | much but uh you know we do use it from |
| 1586s | time to time and then another honorable |
| 1587s | mention here is going to be all the |
| 1589s | notebooks and whiteboard markers that we |
| 1591s | have burned through that our game |
| 1592s | designers have burned through uh you |
| 1594s | know furiously note taking and jotting |
| 1596s | down their ideas next up is going to be |
| 1598s | the tools used for world design the big |
| 1600s | tool here for you for world design is |
| 1601s | going to be of course unreal engine 4 |
| 1603s | this is where we implement any of our |
| 1604s | world changes and things like that so we |
| 1606s | use the tools in unreal engine 4 to |
| 1608s | shape the terrain |
| 1610s | we can use them to paint foliage and |
| 1612s | foliage can be of course bushes and |
| 1613s | trees but it can also be like small |
| 1615s | rocks and then we also use the engine to |
| 1617s | just like manually place larger uh |
| 1619s | indestructible things in the world as |
| 1621s | well for example cliffs our world |
| 1622s | designer also uses microsoft word and |
| 1624s | powerpoint and this is of course for |
| 1626s | documenting or pitching and presenting |
| 1628s | direction ideas to the rest of the team |
| 1630s | the microsoft word for example is also |
| 1632s | used for keeping track of technical |
| 1634s | limitations or rules that uh our world |
| 1636s | designer needs to follow in order to |
| 1638s | stay within like the performance budget |
| 1639s | so basically the information about how |
| 1641s | many types of foliage can be on a |
| 1643s | specific tile in the world or |
| 1645s | landscape layers per tile or number of |
| 1647s | lights that are allowed in a certain |
| 1649s | area and how strong they can be whether |
| 1651s | or not they can cause shadows yeah |
| 1652s | keeping track of things like that our |
| 1654s | world designer also uses excel and this |
| 1656s | is to keep track of for example an asset |
| 1658s | list so like we you know we list all the |
| 1659s | assets we have what the status of them |
| 1661s | are like maybe not all of our assets are |
| 1663s | done or maybe they're in progress maybe |
| 1664s | they've been cancelled so they you know |
| 1666s | uh she uses a big old document to keep |
| 1669s | track of all that stuff also keeps track |
| 1671s | of not just like assets but like uh |
| 1673s | progress of certain areas so for example |
| 1674s | there's like an excel spreadsheet of uh |
| 1676s | all of our caves and what's planned for |
| 1678s | the caves and the progress of individual |
| 1680s | caves and things like that yeah and for |
| 1682s | like biome planning and stuff our world |
| 1683s | designer also uses google earth as just |
| 1686s | you know because we have a we have an |
| 1687s | entire planet here and google earth is a |
| 1689s | great tool to use as a reference or to |
| 1692s | gain any kind of inspiration as well and |
| 1693s | to study landscape patterns as well so |
| 1695s | we know what we can do in our world to |
| 1697s | make it appear to be a little bit more |
| 1699s | believable our world designer also uses |
| 1701s | adobe photoshop one of the main reasons |
| 1703s | for it is uh |
| 1704s | for the creation and adjustment of our |
| 1706s | pigment map the pigment map is |
| 1707s | essentially just like a map of the world |
| 1709s | that has like colors painted over the |
| 1711s | top and then the textures in the world |
| 1714s | at those locations can pull from that |
| 1716s | pigment map and mix the colors on the |
| 1718s | pigment map with the colors in the world |
| 1720s | and so basically what this means is we |
| 1721s | can use the same material for example a |
| 1723s | certain kind of grass in one area or in |
| 1725s | two different areas but source colors |
| 1728s | from the pigment map in different ways |
| 1729s | so that they have different tints to |
| 1731s | them and so they appear a little bit |
| 1732s | different so we don't have to create |
| 1734s | multiple textures for every different |
| 1735s | area we can just mix the colors from the |
| 1738s | pigment map into the terrain for example |
| 1740s | i hope that makes sense it's a little |
| 1742s | bit hard to communicate but |
| 1744s | we'll see okay so the next discipline |
| 1745s | that we're going to talk about is |
| 1746s | localization the first tool is unreal |
| 1748s | engine so they're working in the engine |
| 1750s | as well unreal engine has like a |
| 1751s | localization dashboard which is a place |
| 1752s | where you can add languages that you |
| 1754s | want to support so you can import export |
| 1756s | text translations it also has like a |
| 1758s | handy function to gather all the text in |
| 1760s | the in the entire game and and put that |
| 1762s | into the localization database so that |
| 1764s | it can be translated and then lastly of |
| 1766s | course unreal engine needs to compile |
| 1767s | all the text translation so that it can |
| 1769s | be used in the game at runtime as well |
| 1770s | so that's what we also need to use |
| 1772s | unreal engine for we also use a tool |
| 1773s | called crowdin crowdend is a |
| 1775s | computer-assisted translation tool it's |
| 1777s | kind of like an online localization |
| 1779s | platform where all of our community |
| 1780s | translator contributor people can uh go |
| 1783s | on to crowd and uh check out all the |
| 1785s | texts in the game and and start |
| 1786s | translating themselves they can also use |
| 1788s | it to ask any questions or report any |
| 1789s | issues and then from there from crowding |
| 1791s | we can download all the translations and |
| 1793s | then feed that into unreal engine 4. a |
| 1795s | localization guide also uses python this |
| 1797s | is mostly just to create small scripts |
| 1798s | and small apps that help speed up the |
| 1800s | workflow one great example of this is |
| 1802s | for example uh he's created some tools |
| 1804s | to help him |
| 1805s | um |
| 1806s | do the text gathering and text |
| 1808s | compilation that you can do in unreal |
| 1810s | engine |
| 1811s | to do that without having to launch the |
| 1812s | editor because it can take some time for |
| 1813s | the editor to open so this is he's found |
| 1815s | a way to you know using python to call |
| 1817s | those that functionality from |
| 1819s | unrelention without having to open the |
| 1820s | entire engine itself so this is kind of |
| 1822s | just like a yeah just kind of like a |
| 1823s | productivity boost and uses uh python |
| 1825s | for other scripts as well for example |
| 1827s | just creating scripts that can just help |
| 1829s | automate repetitive tasks or |
| 1831s | pull information from crowdin so that we |
| 1833s | can you know take |
| 1834s | contribution data so we can figure out |
| 1836s | who it is we want to credit in our |
| 1838s | credit section for our translations for |
| 1839s | example or for uh figuring out the |
| 1843s | percentage completion for each language |
| 1845s | that we then display in our in our menu |
| 1848s | in game so people will know how how |
| 1850s | complete each language translation is |
| 1851s | yeah just various little things like |
| 1852s | that a localization guy uses visual |
| 1854s | studio code the ide that we've mentioned |
| 1856s | before and he uses that to write his |
| 1858s | code in python but he also uses visual |
| 1860s | studio code just to check uh text files |
| 1862s | so there might be certain any files or |
| 1863s | config files or the dot po localization |
| 1866s | files as well they also use google |
| 1867s | sheets use this for various reasons |
| 1869s | anything that would sort of benefit for |
| 1870s | being in a sheet or in a table |
| 1873s | things like to-do lists or lists of bugs |
| 1875s | for example but another great example is |
| 1876s | when building or merging term bases or |
| 1879s | like a like a glossary for example |
| 1881s | that's uh that's something that makes a |
| 1882s | lot of sense to use google sheets to |
| 1884s | work with they also use google apps |
| 1886s | scripts in order to run certain scripts |
| 1888s | on their google sheets to do whatever |
| 1890s | automation they need or merging or |
| 1891s | whatever or to automate the gathering of |
| 1893s | uh information from crowdin as well to |
| 1895s | put into spreadsheets directly our |
| 1896s | localization guy also uses discord quite |
| 1898s | a bunch as well because we do community |
| 1901s | driven localization for satisfactory and |
| 1903s | that's one of the reasons why we have |
| 1904s | you know great translation in so many |
| 1906s | different languages and you know part of |
| 1907s | this is uh really working with the |
| 1909s | community and so we have uh some extra |
| 1911s | channels for our community translators |
| 1914s | on our discord server and our |
| 1916s | localization manager guy you know talks |
| 1918s | them a lot to make sure that you know |
| 1920s | we're getting everything done and that |
| 1921s | people have their questions answered and |
| 1923s | you know have what they need to do what |
| 1925s | they do now i was told to not not |
| 1926s | mention google translate don't mention |
| 1928s | google translate don't say it but i'm |
| 1930s | gonna say it uh no we we |
| 1933s | uh so google translate is actually a |
| 1934s | tool that we sort of also do use uh we |
| 1937s | don't use it for production of course we |
| 1939s | don't use google translate to get any |
| 1941s | translations into the game but it can be |
| 1943s | used as a as a pretty helpful tool for |
| 1945s | like testing things or checking back |
| 1947s | translations to make sure that a |
| 1948s | translation is kind of within the |
| 1950s | ballpark of what we're talking about |
| 1952s | yeah just there are some uses for google |
| 1953s | translate but we never use it for |
| 1955s | production it's a great tool just |
| 1957s | not reliable enough for |
| 1959s | for for that next up we have our it |
| 1961s | department so a lot of people have a |
| 1963s | good idea of what it does but in gamedev |
| 1965s | we also need an i.t department and they |
| 1967s | not only just help with general sort of |
| 1968s | sys admin stuff to keep things running |
| 1970s | smoothly which they do do but they do |
| 1972s | provide uh some help with the game and |
| 1975s | game development itself is as well the |
| 1977s | first tool that rit department uses is |
| 1978s | powershell and powershell is just a |
| 1980s | shell and scripting language it's just |
| 1982s | essentially used to make handy little |
| 1983s | sysadmin tools but also we've used it |
| 1986s | for some game stuff too so uh our it |
| 1989s | folks have created something called |
| 1990s | speak and spell which is essentially |
| 1992s | just a an interface for google's |
| 1994s | text-to-speech which we then use to |
| 1996s | create ada's voice lines if you didn't |
| 1998s | know aydah from our game is actually |
| 2000s | just text-to-speech some people thought |
| 2001s | it was a voice actor but uh no |
| 2005s | i can be saucy very very saucy and then |
| 2008s | of course we use powershell for other |
| 2009s | justice admin stuff like creating vpn |
| 2011s | connections or calendar sharing and just |
| 2012s | various other things as well rit folks |
| 2014s | also use python as we mentioned before |
| 2016s | python is just a scripting language and |
| 2018s | one example of a tool that has been made |
| 2020s | in python is our crash collector so if |
| 2023s | in the unfortunate event your |
| 2024s | satisfactory has ever crashed you will |
| 2026s | have seen a crash reporter pop up that |
| 2028s | is something built in with unreal engine |
| 2029s | but we have a crash collector tied into |
| 2031s | that so that when you do report your |
| 2033s | crashes the crash information comes to |
| 2035s | us so we can collect it keep it on |
| 2037s | record analyze it and just keep track of |
| 2039s | like what kind of crashes are happening |
| 2040s | so that was a tool that was made using |
| 2041s | python we also use a tool called jenkins |
| 2045s | jenkins is an open source automation |
| 2047s | server which uh we use basically as a |
| 2049s | build system so every time a developer |
| 2051s | submits their code to our before server |
| 2054s | our version control server jenkins will |
| 2056s | run and create a new build of the game |
| 2058s | each time uh and what this sort of means |
| 2060s | is that when other people then get the |
| 2062s | latest version of the game for example |
| 2064s | artists |
| 2065s | you know who aren't really compiling |
| 2067s | code what they will get is pre-compiled |
| 2070s | binaries for the editor so they don't |
| 2071s | need to compile the code every time they |
| 2073s | get the latest jenkins automatically |
| 2075s | takes care of that every time a |
| 2076s | programmer checks something in uh yeah |
| 2078s | creates some pre-compiled binaries for |
| 2079s | the editor so no one else has to worry |
| 2081s | about that and if for any reason it |
| 2082s | can't compile it alerts us and lets us |
| 2084s | know that something's wrong and then we |
| 2086s | take a look at what's up we also use |
| 2087s | jenkins to run profiling on new builds |
| 2089s | as well just to uh check performance of |
| 2091s | the game as we as we go rit folks also |
| 2093s | use google cloud platform so google |
| 2095s | cloud platform is just something that |
| 2096s | like you can store files there or you |
| 2098s | can run programs there or just do others |
| 2100s | you can do a lot of stuff with it um and |
| 2102s | our crash collector that i was |
| 2103s | mentioning before that was made in |
| 2104s | python that actually runs there on the |
| 2106s | google cloud platform we also use google |
| 2107s | cloud platform to store backups of our |
| 2110s | before server off-site so if anything |
| 2111s | happens to outperform server or to our |
| 2113s | office or anything like that we'll have |
| 2115s | uh you know a fairly recent version of |
| 2118s | the preferred server backed up somewhere |
| 2120s | else the next tool that our it folks use |
| 2122s | is called incredibild and incredibility |
| 2123s | is essentially a program that helps |
| 2125s | distribute compiled jobs amongst |
| 2127s | multiple computers across a network and |
| 2128s | so what this means is that when someone |
| 2130s | needs to compile the game one of the |
| 2131s | programs make some changes they need to |
| 2133s | compile uh what they can actually do is |
| 2135s | distribute the compile work across |
| 2137s | multiple computers within the office so |
| 2138s | that everyone can help out with the |
| 2140s | compilation of the game |
| 2142s | instead of just that one person's pc |
| 2144s | doing it and so what normally could take |
| 2146s | you know an hour or more only takes a |
| 2148s | few minutes with the help of everyone's |
| 2150s | uh pcs saves a lot of time so there are |
| 2152s | actually like a lot of other tools that |
| 2153s | it are probably using as well and that's |
| 2155s | a rabbit hole we could go down for hours |
| 2156s | but um not all of it is necessarily |
| 2159s | relevant to like the game development |
| 2161s | side of things but i think the main |
| 2162s | takeaway here is that rit department is |
| 2165s | incredibly important uh and they do a |
| 2167s | lot of work these a lot of tools and |
| 2169s | they do a lot of work to keep operations |
| 2171s | running smoothly uh so that you know we |
| 2173s | we can just keep working on the game |
| 2174s | next up we have the community management |
| 2176s | and trailer team |
| 2177s | folks like me so on the community side |
| 2179s | of things of course we're using things |
| 2180s | like discord and other social media so |
| 2182s | like discord twitter facebook reddit |
| 2185s | youtube twitch i mean steam farms if you |
| 2187s | want to count steam in this case as well |
| 2189s | and basically we use all these tools to |
| 2190s | talk to our community get feedback from |
| 2192s | people and also just hang out to have |
| 2194s | fun and inform folks with as well as for |
| 2196s | social media tools itself to help us |
| 2198s | post places we don't actually use any |
| 2199s | tools for that we just kind of go to the |
| 2201s | platform and do the thing we also use |
| 2203s | microsoft word for example for scripting |
| 2204s | out scripts such as this one we use |
| 2206s | adobe premiere pro adobe premiere pro is |
| 2208s | essentially a video editing software you |
| 2211s | can do some some more minor kind of |
| 2213s | effects in it as well but for the most |
| 2215s | part it's about sequencing basically |
| 2217s | putting audio and video in order um |
| 2220s | to put to put videos together and and of |
| 2221s | course we've you know this video was |
| 2223s | made using premiere pro as well but also |
| 2224s | our trailers are made using premiere pro |
| 2226s | adobe after effects is also a video |
| 2228s | editing software as well but it |
| 2229s | specializes mostly in special effects |
| 2231s | and so we use it when needed uh for |
| 2233s | example we've got this little little guy |
| 2234s | down here this little name plate down |
| 2236s | here was made in after effects the |
| 2238s | animation pretty pretty schmick and then |
| 2240s | and then we use it in our videos some |
| 2242s | other examples are like logos in our |
| 2244s | trailers any animations around that are |
| 2246s | often done in after effects and then |
| 2247s | brought into premiere pro to be |
| 2248s | sequenced we use adobe photoshop for i |
| 2251s | mean the thing that comes to mind is |
| 2252s | thumbnails for youtube videos we use |
| 2253s | photoshop for that but also for any sort |
| 2255s | of like community posts or anything like |
| 2257s | that we might use photoshop for as well |
| 2259s | we also use ms paint uh for high quality |
| 2262s | in-game screenshots as you can see here |
| 2265s | art you're welcome very welcome in fact |
| 2268s | yeah just basically to create some |
| 2269s | stupid things to share with you guys |
| 2271s | next up we use audacity for recording |
| 2273s | audio we also use sonar for recording |
| 2275s | audio and then we also use adobe |
| 2277s | audition which we use to basically |
| 2279s | process audio we use shadow play for |
| 2281s | screen capture whenever we want to take |
| 2283s | in-game footage |
| 2284s | um to then you know be used in a trailer |
| 2287s | for example we also use obs studio for |
| 2289s | screen capture as well and we also use |
| 2291s | obs studio for live streaming so if you |
| 2294s | haven't checked out our live streams we |
| 2295s | stream every tuesday at twitch.tv slash |
| 2297s | stain studios devs so uh check us out |
| 2299s | give us a follow and speaking of our |
| 2301s | streams we also use stream elements for |
| 2302s | our bot commands we use restream as a |
| 2305s | tool that uh you know we can stream to |
| 2307s | restream and then restream will stream |
| 2309s | to multiple platforms so we like to |
| 2310s | stream to twitch and steam mostly and on |
| 2314s | special occasions we stream to youtube |
| 2315s | as well and restream allows us to stream |
| 2317s | to all of those places at once we also |
| 2318s | use google slides if you have been to |
| 2320s | our streams before you'll know that we |
| 2321s | do we have a segment called community |
| 2323s | highlights where we highlight really |
| 2325s | cool screenshots that have been |
| 2326s | submitted by the community and we make |
| 2327s | those slideshows using google slides and |
| 2329s | then we have another tool called stream |
| 2330s | ass instant yes very good name made by |
| 2333s | snoop my partner in crime the other |
| 2334s | community manager and this is |
| 2336s | essentially just a tool that uh |
| 2338s | has some |
| 2339s | nifty little functionality that we use |
| 2340s | when streaming so again if you've seen |
| 2342s | our streams you'll know that we have an |
| 2343s | agenda normally at the top this tool |
| 2345s | helps us create those tabs switch |
| 2347s | between those tabs uh it has like |
| 2349s | countdown functionality and also the |
| 2352s | ability to save comments from chat so |
| 2354s | that we can respond to them later as |
| 2355s | well so yeah pretty nifty little tool |
| 2357s | that we use now the last discipline that |
| 2358s | we're going to talk about here is going |
| 2359s | to be the ceo discipline oh boy what |
| 2362s | tools does the ceo ask you wonder that's |
| 2364s | why you're all here and it's twitter |
| 2366s | apparently this guy thinks he's a meme |
| 2368s | lord he thinks he's a comedian he thinks |
| 2369s | he's funny |
| 2371s | it's pretty good it's actually pretty |
| 2372s | good though |
| 2373s | he's actually pretty funny he's coming |
| 2375s | for my job man what am i gonna do |
| 2377s | if he keeps posting like this what am i |
| 2379s | gonna do no but for real uh he doesn't |
| 2381s | do anything else apart from that anyway |
| 2382s | that's all for today i that was a lot i |
| 2385s | hope you found it interesting uh you |
| 2386s | know if you did find it interesting do |
| 2388s | leave a thanks chase helps a lot in the |
| 2389s | comments below i want to say a really |
| 2391s | big thanks to my co-workers who helped |
| 2393s | me do this so like you saw a lot of the |
| 2395s | b-roll here a lot of them took some time |
| 2397s | to capture the footage of the you know |
| 2399s | behind the scenes stuff that you guys |
| 2400s | saw and so i appreciate them taking the |
| 2402s | time to do that and also for talking to |
| 2404s | me and explaining to me |
| 2406s | slowly repeatedly in very simple english |
| 2409s | so that i could understand what it is |
| 2410s | that they're doing and hopefully i've |
| 2412s | done a good job at con conveying that to |
| 2414s | you guys as well and so on that note |
| 2415s | like if i did i make any mistakes i |
| 2417s | probably did if i did be kind but you |
| 2420s | could let me know in the comments below |
| 2421s | also if you're a game developer and you |
| 2423s | use these tools let us know i'd like to |
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| 2428s | thought of this video in in general |
| 2430s | because a lot of effort went into this |
| 2432s | and i'm really really curious |
| 2433s | i'm nervous actually but i'm curious as |
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| 2450s | all very much for watching the video |
| 2452s | taking the time to watch this entire |
| 2453s | thing i hope you had a lovely week and i |
| 2455s | hope you have a great weekend take care |
| 2456s | everybody see you later bye |