Could you go more in depth with the pre-production phase? What usually occurs during this period, and is it just an amalgamation of separate prototypes, or more organized than tha...
It's better to take a step back and look at where a game idea is before we enter preproduction and then where it is once we finish preproduction. Before we enter preproduction, the project is in the Concept phase where we try to figure out what the game is going to be.