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Dev2Publish. CRASH COURSE TO GAME PUBLISHING INTO WINDOWS STORE OR WINDOWS PHONE STORE. Dev2Publish - Kick Off. Today’s schedule 10:00 The course is introduced Examples of simple yet successful games Microsoft presents the possibilities of the Market Place and the tools 11:30
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Dev2Publish CRASH COURSE TO GAME PUBLISHING INTO WINDOWS STORE OR WINDOWS PHONE STORE Dev2Publish
Dev2Publish - Kick Off Today’s schedule 10:00 The course is introduced Examples of simple yet successful games Microsoft presents the possibilities of the Market Place and the tools 11:30 Lunch break 12:30 Game Templates A student team of Turku Game Lab presents their Unity Tool Unity Codexo Asset Pack for Starters & templates that are made with it Other templates are presented Discussion Dev2Publish
”Have you shipped a game?” During this course you will gain experience: • how the digital distribution model works • what are the requirements to publish a game • to learn platform specific content creation • how to further develop the product • how to monetize the game • how to name the product • how to plan icons and other marketing material to the game • learn user behavior and get feedback for the game (after the game is published) • the Game Industry values students who have actually published games Dev2Publish
Structure • The timetable of the first course from 8th of May to 15th of June. • 8 hours in a week scheduled laboratory hours on Thursdays with teachers and experts from the Turku Game Lab present to give support and teach game development • The experts from Microsoft & Turku Game Lab will give publishing workshop on 5th of June • We will give a few templates with core mechanics • More advanced students can work with their own project • The aim is to have at least one playable level with future DLC or an endless runner. • Form form small teams 2-3 students • Game must be submitted 15th of June • Publish EVENT 16th and 17th of June, Publish by 1st of June Dev2Publish
Turku GameLab • Development premises: C0011 & Turku Game Lab B2040 • Graphics and Animation support: Taisto Suominen • Unity & Coding support: Ilmari Lahti • Other Game Lab personnel also available with various skill set (Toni Heinonen building & publishing) • PasiKetola: audio for your games: soundtrack, effects, voice over etc Dev2Publish
Turku GameLab 15th of May: Infos and workshop Graphics Info 8:15-12 • 2D animation with Photoshop • Spritesheets • Make human – an open source tool for 3D human creation & Unity Mecanimintergration 12:15 Unity Codexo Asset Pack for Starters workshop Dev2Publish
Simple yet successful Games • Flabby Bird – very simple • Mechanics • Graphics • Gameplay • Team • Lots of clones: Rovio’s Retry Dev2Publish
Simple yet successful Games • Hill Climb Racing– very simple • Mechanics • Graphics • Gameplay • Downloaded over 140 000 000 times • 40% of the revenue from ads Dev2Publish
Simple yet successful Games Dev2Publish
Top 10 Mobile GamesWorldwide 2013, RankedbyDownloads • 1. CandyCrushSaga, King • 2. SubwaySurfers, Kiloo • 3. TempleRun 2, Imangi • 4. Despicable Me, Gameloft • 5. Fruit Ninja, Halfbrick • 6. AngryBirds, Rovio • 7. Hill Climb Racing, Fingersoft • 8. Pou, Zakeh • 9. 4 Pics 1 Word, Lotum • 10. Real Racing 3, Electronic Arts Source: Gamasutra Dev2Publish
Top 10 Mobile GamesWorldwide 2013, RankedbyRevenue • 1. Puzzle & Dragons, GungHoOnline • 2. CandyCrushSaga, King • 3. Clash of Clans, Supercell • 4. Hay Day, Supercell • 5 The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Electronic Arts • 6. The Hobbit: Kingdoms, Kabam • 7. Slotomania, Caesars Entertainment • 8. Megapolis, Social Quantum • 9. Pokopang, LINE • 10. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, Kab Source: Gamasutra Dev2Publish
Project Templates • Tutorial from Unity: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/infinite-runner. Made to project with commented scripts • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4Zfh2Bjj_MQml5My1ueXd5Z2s/edit?usp=sharing • Arctic Unity Game Kits – Unity Game Templates for the absolute beginners • http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/ • GameSmith’s Apprentice3 templates : • Sidescrolling Space Shooter with mobile controls • Top down car game with AI • Sidescrolling endless runner • http://goo.gl/Yo6Fte Learn more • http://learnunity2d.com/ • http://unity3d.com/learn • http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-503 • http://jukkawallasvaara.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/its-time-to-levelup-with-unity-resources-links/ Dev2Publish