Video: Automating content creation so tiny teams can make big games

Last year developer and programmer Alexander Birke worked on the first episode of The Adventurers of Bertram Fiddle , an a dventure game with tons of animation and dialogue developed by the small team at Rumpus Animation.

At GDC Europe 2015 Birke took the stage to explain how, s ince the game was developed with a small team , a large amount of effort and brainpower was spent on reducing the workload of creating so much content.

During his talk Birke shared the problems they faced and how they solved them, detailing the team's approach to automating repetitive tasks, designing custom workflows to help different disciplines (like say, animators and programmers) work together efficiently, and building novel systems to automatically track assets and ensure nothing goes missing.

Making games involves making a lot of mistakes, says Birke -- the trick is learning how to create a workflow that lets you find and fix them fast. Watch him explain how now, for free, over on the GDC Vault's official YouTube channel .

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