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Fastest Game In The West

Fastest Game In The West. Brandon Sheffield, Director, Necrosoft Games. Who am I??. Editor-Emeritus, Game Developer magazine Senior Contributing Editor, www.gamasutra.com Game Writer Director, Necrosoft Games. The state of Western Game Development.

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Fastest Game In The West

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  1. Fastest Game In The West Brandon Sheffield, Director, Necrosoft Games

  2. Who am I?? • Editor-Emeritus, Game Developer magazine • Senior Contributing Editor, www.gamasutra.com • Game Writer • Director, Necrosoft Games

  3. The state of Western Game Development • Who are these Western developers? (salaries, strengths, weaknesses) • What technology are they using? (social/mobile/console/PC) • Trends in tech – what problems are we fixing? • Social/mobile trends • Overall trends in the Western game industry

  4. Average Salary data from 2001-2010

  5. Average Salaries across all disciplines in 2011

  6. Production strengths and weaknesses

  7. Triple-ATech

  8. Triple-A Tech

  9. Social gametechnology

  10. Mobile support across platforms

  11. Social and Mobile tech

  12. Tech Trends: Free Tools 3D Art - Blender - SketchUp - Meshmixer - Makehuman - Arbaro Libraries: - ccMixter - OpenGameArt - freesound - pdsounds Other: - TargetProcess (project management) - Lightworkds (video editor) - Notepad++ (coding) - Tiled (Tile maps) IDEs - Visual Studio Express - Xcode - Eclipse - Flashdevelop Music/Sound - Audacity - Linux MultiMedia Studio - Bfxr 2D art - GIMP - Paint.net - Pixen - GrafX2 - Inkscape - Shoebox

  13. Tech Trends: Big topics • Sweeping up the problems of the last gen • Going big while scaling small • Telemetry, game analytics • Voxels • Random generation of assets • Sculpture modeling • Web development pipelines • Security and back ends

  14. Social/Mobile trends • mid-core - trying to get dedicated users. • layoffs / contraction • post-release marketing

  15. General Trends: Indies • Small teams, many just out of college, skipping the traditional industry • Increasing success where Triple-A fails • Game jams • Game bundles

  16. General Trends: Crowdfunding

  17. General Trends: Steam

  18. General Trends: f2p comes to game middleware

  19. General Trends: Errata • The power of retro • Psychology, economics, and game design • Games are free speech! (But don't forget IP law) • Games as art and history

  20. Thanks! Contact info: Brandon Sheffield www.necrosoftgames.combrandon@necrosoftgames.com Twitter: @necrosofty

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