This is the slide we used at our talk in Tehran Game Convention 2017. We made a shmup game during our mandatory military service and in this presentation we talked about situations and challenges we had and the pipeline we experienced. Hope it helps at least in some minor aspects of similar projects of indie teams.

1. TRACK: Production
Green Uniforms
Thunderbolt: A Shmup Postmortem
in Green Uniforms
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2. Who We Are?
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Majid Rahmani

3. Who We Are?
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Iman Golkar

4. Who We Are?
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Soroush Abbasian

5. Who We Are?
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Hosein Reyhani

6. TRACK: Production
Majid Rahmani
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in Green Uniforms
Design
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7. IRIAFGDC
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• History
• The Team
• The 1st Released Title

8. Why Shmup?
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• Condition and Situation
• Our Interest
• Team Skill and Theme

9. Development of Thunderbolt
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• Production Time
• Exact Presence Time
• Lack of GDD and Concentrating on Beat Chart
• Self-Managing
• Local Git
• Kanboad for Tasks
• Mantis for Issue Tracking

10. Was Thunderbolt a failure or success?
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11. Game’s Core Loop
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Current Core
Loop and lack of
Monetizing

12. Historical Background
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• Prologue and Golden 15 Secs

13. Design Tools
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• Bezier Curves
• Pool Manager

14. Level Design Pipeline
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• Prefab is Better than Custom
• Make Enemies Unique Even With Texture Change

15. Balance
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• Visual Feel
• Number of Enemies and Gadgets

16. TRACK: Production
Soroush Abasian
Thunderbolt: A Shmup Postmortem
in Green Uniforms
VFX & UI
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17. UX Design
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18. Menu Design
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19. Icon Design
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20. In Game UI Design
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21. VFX
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• Color theme
• Optimization

22. VFX
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23. TRACK: Production
Iman Golkar
Thunderbolt: A Shmup Postmortem
in Green Uniforms
Technical
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24. Different View
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25. Collision Detection
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26. 2D Mapping
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27. On Air Camera
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28. Water
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29. Underwater Texture
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30. Refractive Shader
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31. Gallery Model Viewer
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32. TRACK: Production
Hosein Reyhani
Thunderbolt: A Shmup Postmortem
in Green Uniforms
Graphic
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33. Graphic
• 1-Level Design
• 2-Model Transforms
• 3-Paint,Bake,&Blend in Textures
• 4-Decals
• 5-Tree Set Script
• 6-Atlas Textures
• 7-Water
• 8-Optmize
• 9-Animate
• 10-Cutscene
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34. Thank You!
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• Majid: linkedin.com/in/majid-rahmani
• Soroush: linkedin.com/in/soroush-abasian
• Iman: linkedin.com/in/iman-golkar
• Hosein: linkedin.com/in/hosein-reyhani