Talking about the procedurally generated, music-based game; SyncSevne on Unity3d.

1. The Making of
SyncSeven
Mohammad Shaker
Founder, Designer and Developer, Strong Emotions
Wikilogia Talk, April 2015

2. Next Talk
Next Talk

3. Changing driving position.
Safer or a Catastrophe?!

4. Why we stop talking when the driver
overtakes a big truck on a narrow road.

5. Why door handles designs
are horrible.

6. Why door handles designs
are horrible.

7. VisualizationVisualization.

9. VisualizationVisualization.
Passive
Passiv

10. But. Can
music be
used as
content?

11. VisualizationVisualization
in Games

12. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StrongEmotionsApps.SyncSevenFREE

13. Rhythm-based Games

14. Guitar Hero. 10-30$/69$ 25 million copies, $1 billion in sales 2005
Rhythm-based Games

15. Size DOES Matter. 0.99$ August, 2014
Rhythm-based Games

16. Alphabeats. 1.99$ July, 2014
Rhythm-based Games

17. Audiosurf. 9.99$ 2008
Rhythm-based Games

18. Geometry Dash. 1.99-3.99$ 5/5 stars on App Store 2013,14
Rhythm-based Games

19. Problems
Price
SizeDoesMatter
Alphabeats
GeometryDash
Audiosurf
Guitar Hero

20. Problems
Price
SizeDoesMatter
Alphabeats
GeometryDash
Audiosurf
Guitar Hero
# Platforms

21. Price
SizeDoesMatter
Alphabeats
GeometryDash
Audiosurf
Guitar Hero
# Platforms
Quality
Problems

22. Price
SizeDoesMatter
Alphabeats
GeometryDash
Audiosurf
Guitar Hero
# Platforms
Quality
Best Price/Value

23. Price
SizeDoesMatter
Alphabeats
GeometryDash
Audiosurf
Guitar Hero
# Platforms
Quality
Best Price/Value

24. Price
# Platforms
Quality
Problems
Customizable
/ Repeatable

25. Price
# Platforms
Quality
Problems
Customizable
/ Repeatable

26. Price
# Platforms
Quality
Problems
Customizable
/ Repeatable

27. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want
Customizable
/ Repeatable

28. Procedural
Content
Generation

29. Music-based
Content Generation

30. Music-based CG
Music

31. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level

32. Music-based CG
Model
Music
Generated
Level

33. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Model

34. Music-based CG
Music
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Model

35. Music-based CG
Music
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Model
Mapper

36. Music-based CG
Music
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Model
Mapper
Xml File

37. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Model
Mapper

38. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>

39. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>

41. Background Coloring

42. Background Coloring

43. Background Coloring

44. Why use these?!
• Player
Snake
• Beat
change direction
• x20 other events corresponding to beats (shake, coloring,
rotations, etc.)

45. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want
Customizable
/ Repeatable

46. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want.
Customizable
/ Repeatable
Abstraction

47. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want.
Customizable
/ Repeatable
Abstraction

48. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>

49. Music-based CG
Music
Generated
Level
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>

50. Untitled Top Secret New
Games (UTSNG)

51. Procedural Content Generation
Music-based Content Generation
Game Generation

52. Procedural Content Generation
Music-based Content Generation
Framework for Content Generation
across different games

53. Framework

54. SyncSeven
UTSNG
Framework

55. SyncSeven
UTSNG
Framework
Extractor
Mapper
Specific, inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper
Framework

56. SyncSeven
UTSNG
Framework
Extractor
Mapper
Specific, inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper
change direction Mechanics XX
combo Bonus XX
20x events User danger XX
direction/ bg Beats XX
Framework

57. SyncSeven
UTSNG
Framework
Extractor
Mapper
Specific, inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper
change direction Mechanics collect/ avoid
combo Bonus time streak
camera shake/ coloring User danger camera shake/ coloring
keyboard/ mouse/ gyroscope Input keyboard/ mouse/ gyroscope
direction/ bg Beats collect/ avoid/ scale/ bg
different interactions for
different gameplay.
Framework

58. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want.
Customizable
/ Repeatable
Abstraction

59. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want.
Customizable
/ Repeatable
Abstraction

60. Price
# Platforms
Quality
What we want.
Customizable
/ Repeatable
Abstraction

61. ImplementImplementation

62. Implementation
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>

63. Implementation
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
Matlab

64. Implementation
Extractor (Notes, Rhythm, Beats)
Music List<MusicEvent>
Model
Mapper
List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
Matlab
C#,
Unity3d

65. Ads
UnityAds

66. Leaderboard
Google Play Services

67. Social Features
private
void
ShareOnTwitter
(string
textToDisplay)
{
Application.OpenURL(TWITTER_ADDRESS
+
"?text="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(textToDisplay)
+
"&amp;lang="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(TWEET_LANGUAGE));
}

68. Social Features
private
void
ShareOnFacebook
()
{
string
msg
=
GameConfig.Score.GetShareMessage
();
string
linkParameter
=
"www.mohammadshaker.com/syncseven.html",
nameParameter
=
"SyncSeven
Game",
captionParameter
=
”",
descriptionParameter
=
msg,
pictureParameter
=
”",
redirectParameter
=
"http://www.facebook.com/";
Application.OpenURL
(FACEBOOK_URL
+
"?app_id="
+
FACEBOOK_APP_ID
+
"&link="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(linkParameter)
+
"&name="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(nameParameter)
+
"&caption="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(captionParameter)
+
"&description="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(descriptionParameter)
+
"&picture="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(pictureParameter)
+
"&redirect_uri="
+
WWW.EscapeURL(redirectParameter));
}

69. Cloud Services
www.parse.com
Cloud Service for any platform.

70. Critics
Critics

71. Critics
• Difficulty
• Ads
• Coloring
• Open VS Close

72. NEXT
www.mohammadshaker.com/next.html

73. iNversion
www.mohammadshaker.com/inversion.html

74. Did You
Catch Something
?

75. Last WordsLast Words

76. Do it for love.

77. Do it with the right people.

78. You only have one life.

79. Don’t forget to have fun.

80. Make your own rules.

81. Say NO when it matters.
Say NO to things you don’t want.

82. The only thing holding us back
is how far we are willing to go.
Black Ops III Teaser, April 2015!

83. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most
important tool I've ever encountered to help me
make the big choices in life. Because almost
everything - all external expectations, all pride, all
fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just
fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is
truly important.!
Steve Jobs, Commencement Address at Stanford University (2005)!
“
”

84. @ZGTRShaker
mohammadshakergtr@gmail.com
www.mohammadshaker.com
Contact Me

85. Come talk
to me
Come talk to
me

86. Thank you.