indie series 01: intro to games

Crash Course in

Game Development

Mohammad Shaker

Founder, Designer and Developer, Strong Emotions

Wikilogia Talk, April 2015

Games, Types and Game Engines

Who Am I?! 2008-13 Grad, Artificial Intelligence. F.I.T.E of Damascus, Syria 2010-now Instructor: Programming and Graphics Languages 2013-now Researcher: Procedural Content Generation, ITU Copenhagen 2014-15 MSc. in Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Systems, UJF, France 2014-now Founder, Designer and Developer, Strong Emotions

All Practice, No nonsense.

Let’s start with

Stats Let’s start with

http://www.acrasio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Gamification-Acrasio-large.jpg!

BIG NO

Read about “Stickness”, Book: Made to Stick, Chip Heath and Dan Heath !

Game Development

Development! Design!

Games Types

Action

Role Playing Games (RPG)

Stealth and Shooter

Real-time Strategy (RTS)

Arcade

Simulation

Sports

Racing

Puzzle

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Games Types, A MIX

Physics-based, Puzzle

Open World

Turn-based Strategy

Forget all this. Always Remember:

Rules are made to be broken

Platforms

Platforms •  Portable (PS Vita) •  Stand-alone (PC, Xbox, PS4) •  Mobile •  Gadget (Apple Watch, Android Watches)

Game Ratings

Early Childhood!

Everyone!

Everyone, 10+!

Teen, 13+!

Mature, 17+!

Adult, 18+!

Rating Pending!

Entertainment System Rating Board (ESRB)

Rating Symbols

Content Descriptors Blood, Animated Blood, Blood and Gore, etc.!

Game Engines

What’s What?

Unity3d [Free & Paid]

Unity3d: Crossy Road

Unity3d: Republique

Unreal Engine [Free]

UE: Real Boxing [iOS and Android]

Unreal Engine Unity

•  Free!•  Royalty [5% on everything]!•  Whole engine for free!•  C++!•  Blueprint: no need to code!•  Whole engine + profiler!•  Graphics is awesome!•  Easy to use [just after a bit]!

•  Free!•  Paid [1,500$ or 75$/month] !•  Free vs Paid: Sub vs Whole!•  C#, JS, Boo!•  -!•  No profiler in Free version!•  Graphic is good/very good!•  Easy to use!•  More than 50% of mobile (that rely on

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

3rd party engine)!

Blueprint in Unreal Engine: No need to code.

Unreal Engine Unity

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

•  Free!•  Paid [1,500$ or 75$/month] !•  Free vs Paid: Sub vs Whole!•  C#, JS, Boo!•  -!•  No profiler in Free version!•  Graphic is very good!•  Easy to use!•  More than 50% of mobile (that rely on

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

•  Free!•  Paid [1,500$ or 75$/month] !•  Free vs Paid: Sub vs Whole!•  C#, JS, Boo!•  -!•  No profiler in Free version!•  Graphic is very good!•  Easy to use!•  More than 50% of mobile (that rely on

3rd party engine)!

Unreal Engine Unity

•  Free!•  Paid [1,500$ or 75$/month] !•  Free vs Paid: Sub vs Whole!•  C#, JS, Boo!•  -!•  No profiler in Free version!•  Graphic is very good!•  Easy to use!•  > 50% of mobile (that rely on 3rd party

engine)!

Asset Store in Unity3d

Game Engines

Source 2 [GDC 15, Free]

Source 2: Half-life, Counter Strike, Left for Dead, Titanfall

CryEngine: The fastest high-end renderer in the world

CryEngine: Crysis

CryEngine: Ryse of Rome

CryEngine Source 2 •  Counter Strike, Half-life, Titanfall!•  Free!•  Multi-platform Support!

•  Crysis, Ryse of Rome, Sniper 2!•  9.90 USD/EUR!•  Multi-platform Support: PC, xBox, PS3 !•  The fastest high-end renderer in the

world!

Unity3d

Unity3d: Bad Peggies

Unity3d: LA Cops

Unity3d: SyncSeven

Unity3d: Ori and the Blind Forest

Ori and the Blind Forest: 4 years into making

Gamification

Duolingo

Duolingo - Motivation

Duolingo - Badges

Duolingo - Social

Duolingo – Social Competition

FourSquare

Coursera, Prof. Kevin Werbach, University of Pennsylvania https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification

Serious Games

Weebee on a Mission, FITE of Damascus, Syria, 2014

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