Making the Game

For most people, the video game experience starts at the store and ends on the couch. Few realize that creating a game can be as complex as making a Hollywood blockbuster. Months of planning and preparation, script writing, casting, character development, cutting-edge technology and massive computing power go into making games.

To get an idea of how it all works, we visited Gas Powered Games, the Kirkland, Wash.-based creators of the popular Dungeon Siege series. The company was hard at work on the next installment in the series, Dungeon Siege II.

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