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The Game Development Process:
The Game Development process comes in three stages, Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production, these are just the main stages. Each of them consist of many sub-stages as well so a lot goes on in these three stages.
The First Stage of Game Development. In this stage, You are planning out as to how your game will function and play. This is basically beginning of the game's development.
Pre-Production
An extremely detailed document that is subject to frequent changes and updates as the development finalize their vision of their game. These documents are often used to ensure precise collaboration amongst the members of the team.
Game Design Document
This is where the lead designers begin outlining a game concept with the assistance of lead programmers and artists. The different teams begin working on a specific part of the game, like it's mechanics, art, and storyline.
Concept
Creating prototypes consisting of gameplay ideas and features is a very Important activity that allows the programmers and game designers to experiment with different mechanics and usable scenarios for a game. A lot of this often takes place during the Pre-Production stage,
Prototype
Production is the main stage of development, where the assets and code for the game are produced.
Production
This task is usually handled by one or more programmers. They make prototypes as a means of testing ideas, which most of them never make it into the final game. They also incorporate new features demanded by the game designers to fix any bugs presented in the development process. A lot of programming is needed to customize almost every game.
Programming
Game design is a collaborative and essential process of designing game's content and rules, requiring artistic and technical expertise along with writing skills.
Design
From a time perspective, The first level of a game takes the longest to develop. As level designers and artists use the tools for level making, they also request features and changes to the in-house tools that allow for quicker and higher quality development.
Level Creation
After the game releases and ships, some developers will give their team members comp time, which can last up to a week or two. to compensate for the amount of time it took to complete the game however, it is not standard.
Post-Production
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When a game ships, the maintenance phase for the game begins. Games developed in the past had no form of maintenance and the shipped game would forever house many bugs when released. This was most common for consoles for that they all had identical or near identical hardware, making incompatibility, the cause of bugs, a non-issue. In this case, the maintenance phase would only occur during a port, sequel, or enhanced remake that reuses a large portion of the engine and assets.