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]

Unreal Engine [Free]

UE: Real Boxing [iOS and Android]

Unreal Engine Unity

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

•  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

•  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

•  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

•  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)!

Blueprint in Unreal Engine: No need to code.

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

•  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 very good!•  Easy to use!•  More than 50% of mobile (that rely on

3rd party engine)!

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 very good!•  Easy to use!•  More than 50% of mobile (that rely on

3rd party engine)!

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 very good!•  Easy to use!•  > 50% of mobile (that rely on 3rd party

engine)!

Asset Store in Unity3d

Other

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: 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: 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

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

Thx.