What is a professional body?
UKIE
UKIE also known as UK Interactive Entertainment is
a trading body for the UK’s games and other interactive media products. It is a
non-profit focused business. Everything UKIE does helps support, promote and
help grow the business of UKIE’s members and widen the UK’s games and
interactive entertainment industry by making sure we have a good economic,
cultural, political and social environment that we need for our businesses to
thrive in otherwise creating a game would all be for naught.
IGDA
The International Game developers association or
IGDA is an official association which has over 10,000 video game developers from
all fields of game development. It is another non-profit organization,
they have said they will “advance the careers and enhance the life
of aspired game designers”. They have also said that “Whether
you're a student with a goal to become a game developer or a seasoned veteran,
regardless if you're based in the U.S. or any country/region in the world,
whether you're an indie developer or in a AAA studio, whether your primary
platform is a PC, console or a tabletop - we welcome you home to the IGDA!”
meaning that no matter who you are you can join and make your way in the game
design industry
Woman in Games
Women In Games (WIGJ) works to recruit,
retain and support woman in the gaming industry, they wish to inspire woman to
join the video game industry and help them seek information and work in the
industry. WIGJ is another non-profit organization that helps the woman in the
gaming industry. Since the game industry was once a male dominated industry
woman in games aims to help woman make their way into the industry since newer
games and newer consoles have been getting more woman to play games and to
aspire woman to be a part of the gaming industry. Seeing as more woman are playing
games we need a greater female
perspective to the development process and increase the appeal of these games
to women seeing as some games have a demographic of woman so we need to have
more female perspective that would help us increase sales in an industry that
was once thought to be sexist and male dominated. Every year they hold
conferences for woman who are a part of the industry and encourage more to join
in.
BAFTA
BAFTA or The British Academy of Film and Television Awards have awards
that they give to anyone of note in the gaming industry. On their website they
say “The British Academy
of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops
and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding
excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public..” these awards
show off what those in the industry can do and show what was popular and how
good certain people can do in there section of the industry
There were 22 awards in 2015 and they were:
Games | Artistic Achievement in 2015, Games | Family in 2015, Games
| Audio Achievement in 2015, Games
| Fellowship in 2015, Games
| Game Design in 2015, Games
| BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital in 2015, Games | BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be
Digital in 2015, Games
| Game Innovation in 2015, Games
| BAFTA Young Game Designers: Game Concept (10-14 Years Old) in 2015, Games | Mobile & Handheld in 2015, Games | BAFTA Young Game Designers: Game Concept (15-18 Years Old)
in 2015, Games | Multiplayer in 2015, Games | BAFTA Young Game Designers: Game Making (10-14 Years Old)
in 2015, Games | Music in 2015, Games | Original Property in 2015, Games | BAFTA Young Game Designers: Game Making (15-18 Years Old)
in 2015, Games | Performer in 2015, Games | BAFTA Young Game Designers: Industry Hero in 2015, Games | BAFTA Young Game Designers: Mentor in 2015, Games | Persistent Game in 2015,
Games | Best Game in 2015, Games
| Sport in 2015, Games
| British Game in 2015, Games
| Story in 2015, Games
| Debut Game in 2015.
Games such as Minecraft, The Last
of Us: Left Behind and Destiny won different awards in the video game design
industry for different things but they also have awards for young game
designers which they have competitions for 10-18 year olds and there are two
awards one for 10-14 year olds won by the game Block made by Louis
Jackson and one for 15-18 year olds won
by the game Utopia of Rhythm made by Jack Mills.
MEF
Managed
Extensibility Framework aims to create lightweight, extensible applications. It
allows developers to discover and
use extensions with no configuration required. There are problems that MEF aims
to solve, one of the being the runtime extensibility problem.
ELSPA
The ELSPA is a video game rating system that judges
a game by what it’s got in it and gives it the age rating for it, such as a
game which is labelled 18 would have violence, gore, sex and bad language (e.g.
GTA V) in contrast to 3 which would be easily played by kids, at worst it would
be non-graphical violence and no bad language whatsoever (e.g. Pokémon). There are
a few different rating systems all around the world and they are different for
each country depending on their law but most of these
systems are associated with and/or sponsored by a government
Links
UKIE
IGDA
Woman in Games
BAFTA
MEF
ELSPA
Task 5 - Professional Bodies Supporting the
Industry
Explain
and illustrate the professional bodies supporting the functions within the
games industry. Produce a profile for each of the following:
Professional
Bodies
|
UKIE
IGDA
Women
in Games
BAFTA
MEF
|
You are aiming to comprehensively
explain the professional
bodies within
the games industry with reference to elucidated examples. You should be using
subject terminology consistently and correctly.
The title of this
work should be titled Task 5 – Professional Bodies Supporting the Industry.
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