A company that specializes in video game development-the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

A fixed regular payment is typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but is often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

A hardware or software developer is independent of the primary product or platform that the consumer is using.

A measure of the total sales that a firm earns in a given reporting period.

A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade.

A person in this position typically oversees others who work in unison to create an overall artistic atmosphere or final product.

A person is responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of video games.

A person who allocates capital with the expectation of a future financial return.

A software problem at a much deeper level, particularly in the design, which likely bleeds into the code level as well.

A software problem that exists in the implementation level ( i.e. only exist in source code).

A sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or each public performance of a work.

Business costs, such as rent, that are constant no matter the quantity of goods or services produced.

Companies which make physical games.

Cost or expense incurred in moving goods from the point of production to the point of consumption. Also called distribution expense.

Cost that an organization incurs is not directly tied to a specific function such as manufacturing/ production or sales.

Costs that varies with the level of output.

Direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a company.

Ensures the game's concepts are brought to life through a range of graphic design elements.

Gives the game a brain, constructing a set of parameters by which the characters not controlled by the player operate and make decisions.

If your game is based on a movie, TV show, comic book, or other established entity, then you need to work closely with the group that owns that property.

Involving creation of video game levels-locales, stages, or missions.