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legal and ethical issues

Intellectual property (often abbreviated ‘IP’) is a term that is used to describe a wide range of types of property. IP rights may be said to be ‘intangible’ in the sense that they do not constitute physical assets but nonetheless their importance to companies, whether small or large, cannot be underestimated. Copyright: This right arises automatically in original artistic, dramatic and literary works, including video games and protects the expression of an idea not the idea itself. Ownership of copyright will permit the owner to prevent unauthorized use including the making of copies or placement of the work on the Internet. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 sets out the types of creative works that have copyright protection under English law. Copyright protection does not last indefinitely and the period of protection varies for different works Trademarks Trademarks are signs or symbols which distinguish products or services from those of other businesses and...
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Interview preparation

How should you prepare for an interview? Researching the company would be a good start, finding out about them and reading more into them to give off that you're interested in them and if they ask you any questions about their company you're going to know the answers if you research them. This is a good way to impress them. Looking up your role that you applied for. There isn't anything more worse than not knowing what your job role enquires, what you will have to do and who you will work with. Theres nothing more better than being prepared and knowing who you will work with and what your job role specifically asks for. Having a great outfit to turn up to for an interview. You wouldn't want to turn up to your interview in a PVC skin tight outfit would you? That would be weird, however picking out the right outfit for your job lets the interviewer know you're smart and just gives an overall judge by the way you dress. We don't like to admit it but we jud...
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professionalism in the gaming industry

IGDA https://www.igda.org/page/corevalues?&hhsearchterms="core+and+values" About them: IGDA are a game's developers association that is non profit who vows to "support and empower" game developers making sure their careers don't fall off the radar or they become bankrupt and then their project has to come to an end. IGDA has over 12,000 members from all fields of the gaming industry and anybody who participates in the gaming industry can join IGDA IGDA are for members of the games development community such as producers who needs help with their project and they also host events to help freelancers meet high end game producers and developers who may hire them or who are looking to hire. IGDA are for everybody in the gaming community whether you're looking to be hired or looking for members to hire for your project team IGDA are there to help a broad variety of the community. Principles Principles in the IGDA community are the rules that they...
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recruitment in the games industry

Online recruitment review.   jobs.gamesindustry.biz   The quotes I think seem relevant in my opinion are:  "The site has a significant and qualified global audience, with over 100,000 registered users spanning every part of the industry, from  design ,  development ,  publishing ,  marketing ,  distribution  or  retail  all the way through to  media ,  freelance  and  students . Leading  news  content, with opinion-forming industry  interviews  and  analysis , are added daily, while the site boasts one of the largest  recruitment  databases for video game-related roles, a  company directory  of contact details for hundreds of businesses in the industry, and links to  industry bodies  and  events ." Usefulness. I think gamesindustry.biz is useful in some aspects for instance they give accurate descriptions of jobs going and provide the i...
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financial issues

games industry business models; In the business model developers are the last ones to get paid and they dont get paid much. When the customer and community buys the physical copy of the game the retailers are the first to get paid then the distributors, publishers finally the developers. Some examples of business models are manufacturer's, a manufacturer makes finished products from raw materials. Another example of a business model is a distributor. A distributor buys products from manufacturers and sells them to the retailers or to the public More examples of business models include retailers, franchise. A business model is a plan for the success of a business, and requires identifying the sources of revenue, the intended customer base and products. It's a plan explaining how a company will make profit, how well the business will sell, the target audience and the expenses and costs. This is good for business as it lets them know how much their income will be and how...
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games industry internal structures

Bandai namco is a game developer and a game studio which creates numerous series and franchise tekken and soul caliber series and many more Bandai Namco was founded on 1 June 1995 62 years ago in Tokyo Shinagawa offering a broader range in their industry consisting of Anime, video game industry and motion pictures. Their individual divisions consisting of Bandai Namco Entertainment 900 (as of April 2017), Bandai Namco Studios 1066 (as of April 2017) In 2010, Namco Bandai Games entered the Guinness World Records for being the company that released the most TV commercials for the same product, a Nintendo DS game called Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. They created 100 versions of the ad as the game consists of 100 chapters which is of course a good marketing strategy manages publishing, and marketing of already developed content. Some of the games developed by Bandai Namco are of course games that are from the Anime's which are Dragon Ball & Naruto further releasing games Dragon b...
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industry trends

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IP The definition of IP in video games stands for intellectual property and is talked about when a developer or publisher talks about a brand new game, a bought game an example of IP would be god of war, as it's their own intellectual property. An original IP is god of war as it's their own original game., this is good for studios and audiences as the own original game is what the audiences want. Basically an intellectual property is conveyed as any individual franchise or series in the games industry so for example Super Mario bro's is an Intellectual Property, Halo is an intellectual property and god of war is an intellectual property. Anytime a new game is released that is 'unique' that no other game has been released in that series is classified as a "New intellectual property" New series examples are: Resident evil 6 Skyrim Max payne 3 Syndicate Mass effect 3 Final fantasy 13-2 These are all established Intellectual properties, nothing ...
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