Producing Games

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Producer Roles

Producing a Next-Gen console game is a monumental task, so it is ideal for a fully structured production team to be in place, with the executive producer as the senior most member, followed by the senior producer, then the producer, with the associate producer and production coordinator or assistant producer as the junior most members of the team. The actual duties for each of these production roles vary across companies.

Figure 4.1 A good producer stands vigilant. Image Courtesy of: “Watchmen” WBIE.

As we discussed in the first chapter, the basic job description of a video game producer is that of managing ...