Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2449" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2449</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2449" target="_blank" >10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2449</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper addresses the evaluation of game engines by internationals, i.e. expatriates and remote workers, in 10 Czech studios that use custom and commercial game engines. The research employs longitudinal semi-structured interviews with internationals, to advance their (locally unexplored) perspectives on such tools. Some Czech studios use custom engines that internationals see as lagging behind commercial tools. However, projects using commercial engines suffer from understaffing as being skilled in them is demanded internationally. Through live service arrangements, projects with custom engines promote communal aspects of game-making in cooperation with players and modders. As this community might be unattractive to seniors with nomadic views on game development, the paper argues for their longer studio onboarding. The results demonstrate that seeing commercial engines as democratising game production is problematic in development contexts that use alternative engines to those promoted by powerful industrial centres or actors.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Platform alternatives or platform power: Custom and commercial game engines in the work of foreigners in Czech game production

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper addresses the evaluation of game engines by internationals, i.e. expatriates and remote workers, in 10 Czech studios that use custom and commercial game engines. The research employs longitudinal semi-structured interviews with internationals, to advance their (locally unexplored) perspectives on such tools. Some Czech studios use custom engines that internationals see as lagging behind commercial tools. However, projects using commercial engines suffer from understaffing as being skilled in them is demanded internationally. Through live service arrangements, projects with custom engines promote communal aspects of game-making in cooperation with players and modders. As this community might be unattractive to seniors with nomadic views on game development, the paper argues for their longer studio onboarding. The results demonstrate that seeing commercial engines as democratising game production is problematic in development contexts that use alternative engines to those promoted by powerful industrial centres or actors.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads

ISBN

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ISSN

2342-9666

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

1-14

Název nakladatele

Digital Games Research Association

Místo vydání

Finsko

Místo konání akce

Malta

Datum konání akce

30. 6. 2024

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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