#game development terms

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Waterfall Methodology

Waterfall Methodology in project management is a systems development life cycle model for software engineering. Thought of as a classic approach to the systems development life cycle, the waterfall model describes a development method that is linear and sequential.  To break it down:

Gather and document requirements

Design

Code and unit test

Perform system testing

Fix any issues

Deliver the finished product

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Optimization

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Optimization: The process of reducing heavy memory usage of your assets.

An example would be to take models with excessive amount of ploys and  optimize by reducing their polycount without drastically affecting the silhouette of the model. 

Usually Retopping or just simply removing edge loops will do the trick without losing form

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Assets

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Assets: Assets are anything that must be created in an external software like 3ds Max, Photoshop, ZBrush, etc. 

Assets can be models, textures, sound effects, animations, and much more.