Choosing to buy a middleware game engine for your next game is the most important technology decision you will likely make for your project. How can you evaluate engines properly? What should you do before looking at engines? This talk covers a framework for evaluating game engines, based on a developer survey conducted in early 2009. It also goes through a bit on the history of game engines. Alas, without notes or audio, there are a lot of things missing from this presentation. But hopefully you will find it helpful!
GDC Europe 2014: Unreal Engine 4 for Programmers - Lessons Learned & Things t...Gerke Max Preussner
A high-level overview of Unreal Engine 4, its game framework, the Slate user interface library, Unreal Motion Graphics, and Editor and Engine extensibility. Presented at GDC Europe in Cologne, Germany.
Also includes bonus slides on concurrency and parallelism features, general tips for programmers and Epic's build and automation infrastructure.
This is a version of the presentation by Stone Librande at GDC 2010, converted for people who don't have powerpoint. Please visit Stone's site at http://stonetronix.com/
Building Games for the Long Term: Pragmatic F2P Guild Design (GDC Europe 2013)Kongregate
Every Kongregate talk they're always saying "guilds, guilds, guilds". Sure, but does that even work for my type of game? And what should a guild design for my game look like?
In this design-focused talk, guilds will be deconstructed into their kernel and then built back up feature-by-feature with an eye on implications for retention, monetization, and engagement. Examples from the industry will be used to look at best practices and missed opportunities while it explores traditional and experimental guild elements. It will also walk through the exercise designing a guild system for a popular casual game, challenging the audience to step outside the boundaries of traditional genres when thinking about guilds in games.
Building Non-Linear Narratives in Horizon Zero DawnGuerrilla
Download the original PowerPoint presentation here: http://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/building-non-linear-narratives-in-horizon-zero-dawn
Open world RPGs require deep stories, which emphasize player choice and freedom. The bigger the games grow, the more complex systems managing these stories get. See how Guerrilla tackled the issue in Horizon Zero Dawn by creating a quest system which has non-linearity at its base.
In this course concepts and requirements of the video game development will be taught. Students will get familiar to the fundamentals of the game industry and finally put all the learned stuff together to work on a small game project.
Videogiochi e Gamification insegnati al Liceo!Fabio Viola
I maestri e professori delle nostre scuole primarie e secondarie, possono trovare nei videogiochi un valido supporto didattico per veicolare in modo innovativo nozioni e messaggi. Attraverso la gamification e percorsi extra curriculari, come quello intrapreso dal Liceo Rosmini di Trento insieme al docente esterno Fabio VIola - esperto di game e gamification design, è possibile migliorare il mondo divertendosi. Le slides sono estrapolate da due giorni di lezione!
Intro to Game Development and the Game Industry (She Codes TLV)Nataly Eliyahu
Overview of games, the game industry (esp. in Israel), challenges unique to game programming, and tips on where to start. Lecture for women at She Codes event in Google Campus TLV.
Getting2Alpha: Turbo-charge your product with Game Thinking by Amy Jo KimNaresh Jain
Do you want to harness the deeper power of games – the power to drive long-term engagement? Are you ready to look beyond the silver bullets & Skinner boxes – and learn to think like a game designer? In this talk, you’ll learn the foundations of Game Thinking - brought to life with front-line stories from eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Slack. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design tips you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2016/proposal/1961/getting2alpha-turbo-charge-your-product-with-game-thinking
Idle Games: The Mechanics and Monetization of Self-Playing GamesKongregate
Idle (or incremental) games is one of the newest genres of video games. At first glance this may be perplexing to "core" gamers, but there are a lot of interesting systems at play that keep the games fun and entertaining, and can even make them into a viable free-to-play business.
El Tejido del Espacio-tiempo, de Charles Francis.
Traducción al español por Dante Amerisi.
El intercambio de fotones observado en la electrodinámica cuántica también es responsable por el “tejido” del espacio-tiempo de Minkovsky.
GDC Europe 2014: Unreal Engine 4 for Programmers - Lessons Learned & Things t...Gerke Max Preussner
A high-level overview of Unreal Engine 4, its game framework, the Slate user interface library, Unreal Motion Graphics, and Editor and Engine extensibility. Presented at GDC Europe in Cologne, Germany.
Also includes bonus slides on concurrency and parallelism features, general tips for programmers and Epic's build and automation infrastructure.
This is a version of the presentation by Stone Librande at GDC 2010, converted for people who don't have powerpoint. Please visit Stone's site at http://stonetronix.com/
Building Games for the Long Term: Pragmatic F2P Guild Design (GDC Europe 2013)Kongregate
Every Kongregate talk they're always saying "guilds, guilds, guilds". Sure, but does that even work for my type of game? And what should a guild design for my game look like?
In this design-focused talk, guilds will be deconstructed into their kernel and then built back up feature-by-feature with an eye on implications for retention, monetization, and engagement. Examples from the industry will be used to look at best practices and missed opportunities while it explores traditional and experimental guild elements. It will also walk through the exercise designing a guild system for a popular casual game, challenging the audience to step outside the boundaries of traditional genres when thinking about guilds in games.
Building Non-Linear Narratives in Horizon Zero DawnGuerrilla
Download the original PowerPoint presentation here: http://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/building-non-linear-narratives-in-horizon-zero-dawn
Open world RPGs require deep stories, which emphasize player choice and freedom. The bigger the games grow, the more complex systems managing these stories get. See how Guerrilla tackled the issue in Horizon Zero Dawn by creating a quest system which has non-linearity at its base.
In this course concepts and requirements of the video game development will be taught. Students will get familiar to the fundamentals of the game industry and finally put all the learned stuff together to work on a small game project.
Videogiochi e Gamification insegnati al Liceo!Fabio Viola
I maestri e professori delle nostre scuole primarie e secondarie, possono trovare nei videogiochi un valido supporto didattico per veicolare in modo innovativo nozioni e messaggi. Attraverso la gamification e percorsi extra curriculari, come quello intrapreso dal Liceo Rosmini di Trento insieme al docente esterno Fabio VIola - esperto di game e gamification design, è possibile migliorare il mondo divertendosi. Le slides sono estrapolate da due giorni di lezione!
Intro to Game Development and the Game Industry (She Codes TLV)Nataly Eliyahu
Overview of games, the game industry (esp. in Israel), challenges unique to game programming, and tips on where to start. Lecture for women at She Codes event in Google Campus TLV.
Getting2Alpha: Turbo-charge your product with Game Thinking by Amy Jo KimNaresh Jain
Do you want to harness the deeper power of games – the power to drive long-term engagement? Are you ready to look beyond the silver bullets & Skinner boxes – and learn to think like a game designer? In this talk, you’ll learn the foundations of Game Thinking - brought to life with front-line stories from eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Slack. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design tips you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2016/proposal/1961/getting2alpha-turbo-charge-your-product-with-game-thinking
Idle Games: The Mechanics and Monetization of Self-Playing GamesKongregate
Idle (or incremental) games is one of the newest genres of video games. At first glance this may be perplexing to "core" gamers, but there are a lot of interesting systems at play that keep the games fun and entertaining, and can even make them into a viable free-to-play business.
El Tejido del Espacio-tiempo, de Charles Francis.
Traducción al español por Dante Amerisi.
El intercambio de fotones observado en la electrodinámica cuántica también es responsable por el “tejido” del espacio-tiempo de Minkovsky.
Guía de destinos turísticos de base deportivaandalucialab
La Guía de destinos turísticos de base deportiva realiza un análisis de los principales casos de éxito de aquellos destinos que presentan una fuerte vinculación con la práctica de un deporte en los mismos.
Today’s busy lifestyle has you running from pillar to post – rushing off to work, ferrying your children back and forth from school, grocery shopping, washing the car, cooking… The common lament is, “We wish there were more hours in a day!”.
We get so caught up in our busy schedules that each one at home is doing his or her own thing. Not that you have no time at all with each other; you just may not be spending quality time with your partner.
Developing applications and games in Unity engine - Matej Jariabka, Rudolf Ka...gamifi.cc
gamifi.cc team - Rudolf & Matej presented on local tech/mobile/games conference experience with Unity & game development in general.
We also list some other tools that might help you. First part covers business tips & reasons to use Unity.
Developing and optimizing a procedural game: The Elder Scrolls Blades- Unite ...Unity Technologies
The Elder Scrolls Blades strove to produce high-quality visuals on modern mobile devices. This talk will describe the challenges of achieving that level of quality in procedurally generated 3D environments.
Speakers:
Simon-Pierre Thibault - Bethesda Game Studios
Sergei Savchenko - Bethesda Game Studios
Watch the session here: https://youtu.be/KbxiGH6igBk
Shift Remote: AI: Behind the scenes development in an AI company - Matija Ili...Shift Conference
Creating any type of company takes enormous amounts of effort, hard work, and persistence. Let alone an Artificial Intelligence company. As we can assure you, it will take a lot more than the above and adding just a team of brilliant AI scientists to build complex real-world AI solutions. In this talk, we will show you the crucial roles of development teams in a high-performing Artificial Intelligence company.
Shift Remote AI: Behind the Scenes Development in an AI Company - Matija Ilij...Shift Conference
Creating any type of company takes enormous amounts of effort, hard work, and persistence. Let alone an Artificial Intelligence company. As we can assure you, it will take a lot more than the above and adding just a team of brilliant AI scientists to build complex real-world AI solutions. In this talk, we will show you the crucial roles of development teams in a high-performing Artificial Intelligence company.
Making A Game Engine Is Easier Than You ThinkGorm Lai
This is a talk I gave at the Develop Conference 2015 in Brighton. It is a an attempt at making a balanced talk on when it makes sense to make your own technology, and what it takes to get you there.
Best Practices For Game Development Using Perforce Streams Perforce
To build a future hit, AAA game development teams need to manage a complex environment. Making a game involves a lot of (big) files, many contributors, and millions of changes. The sheer number of branches associated can be overwhelming for any team.
That’s why 19 of the top 20 game development studios choose Helix Core –– version control from Perforce.
Take Sumo Digital. They use Helix Core to manage obstacles, visualize code, and integrate the tools they need. And they use Perforce Streams –– branching and merging in Helix Core –– to guide development and streamline their workflows.
Join Mark Washbrook and Tony Crowther from Sumo Digital, along with Chuck Gehman from Perforce, to learn:
-Key version control challenges for AAA game development.
-What is Perforce Streams?
-How Sumo Digital uses Perforce Streams to integrate with Unreal.
Discover how your team can benefit from using Streams.
GMG204 TinyCo’s Best Practices for Developing, Scaling, and Monetizing Games ...Amazon Web Services
TinyCo is a game studio that powers and monetizes hit titles such as Tiny Village and Tiny Pets. In this session they will share their best practices for developing engaging titles that work across mobile platforms. TinyCo has learned how-to scale their AWS app servers and databases to handle viral demand, and they will talk about what they learned while they were developing their gaming platform and code libraries. Additionally, TinyCo was successful marketing and monetizing their game with the Amazon Appstore and Kindle Fire, and they will explain how-to integrate with Amazon’s in-app purchasing service.
This was a triumph: Evolving intelligent bots for videogames. And for Science. Pablo García Sánchez
Presentation given to students from IES Montes Orientales about our work on computational intellgence for games by Geneura group of the University of Granada.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
5. The Evolution of Game
Engines
• Graphics engines to game engines
• Software 3D to hardware 3D
• Consoles embrace game engines
• The Mod generation
• Shader evolution
• Costs and complexity
35. Current Engine Trends
• Game development costs are very
high
– Amortize development across
multiple games and multiple
platforms
• Multi-processor complexity
– Encourages use of game engines that
make multi-processor development
simpler
36. Choosing a Game Engine
• The most important decision you
will make about game technology
37. 1. Create Your Game Design
• A draft Game Design Document
38. 2. Create Your Tech Design
• A draft Technical Design Document
39. 3. Create Your Production Plan
• A draft Production Plan
41. Developer Survey
• February 2009 survey of game
developers on game engines
– Senior producers
– Senior engineers
• Results published on
Gamasutra.com
42. Game Engine Decisions
• The most important considerations
– Cost: What can you afford?
– Relevance to platforms, genre, design
– Support
– Functionality: Time saved
– Tools and Content Pipeline
– Integration into Current Technology
– Flexibility
43. Cost: What can you afford?
• Tiers of game engines roughly
match cost
– MMO Engines
– High-end Engines
– Mid-range Engines
– Casual / Web Engines
– Open source PC Engines
44. Cost: What can you afford?
• Deal structures are flexible
– Survey: Preferred deal structure?
17.9%
Flat-rate
82.1% Royalty
45. Cost: What can you afford?
• Other costs to keep in mind
– Training
– Integration time
– Support and maintenance fees
– Add-ons
– Potentially unhappy employees
46. Cost: What can you afford?
• Potentially unhappy employees?
– Survey: If budget and time were no
object, which of these would you
prefer?
7.0%
9.3%
46.5% Create ourselves
Use middleware
37.2%
Purchase engine
Other
47. Relevance
• Platforms
– MMO, PC standalone, consoles,
handhelds, mobile
• Genre
– Look for similar games which use the
engine
• Design
– What is most important? Graphics?
Interaction? Physics?
49. Support
• Survey: Most important engine
practices
1. Source code is available
2. Known to easily integrate
3. Resource management is tweakable
4. Ongoing access to current builds
5. Clear development roadmap
51. Functionality
• Survey: Most important engine
systems
1. Multi-threading system
2. Rendering pipeline
3. Animation system
4. Collision detection / physics system
5. Streaming system
6. Networking design
• Varies based on game, team
expertise, other middleware
52. Tools and Pipeline
• Survey: Most important engine
tools
1. Profiling system
2. Live preview on target platform
37.5%
Yes
62.5%
No
53. Tools and Pipeline
• Most important engine tools
3. Standalone world builder
4. Particle system editor
54. Tools and Pipeline
• More important engine tools
5. Scripting system
• Run-time script debugger
• 51.3% of projects use Lua
55. Tools and Pipeline
• Build Process
– Average code change: 3.5 minutes
– Average full rebuild: 105 minutes
Using Automated Builds
11.9%
Yes
88.1% No
56. Integration
• Existing custom technology
• Middleware technology
Using Engine Using Middleware
10.3%
45.0%
Yes Yes
55.0% 89.7%
No No
57. Integration
• Survey: Most popular middleware
libraries
– Bink
– FMOD
– Havok
– Scaleform
– Kynapse
– Wwise
58. Flexibility
• What range of games are made on
the engine?
• Talk to people who have used the
engine.
• Work with the code: how brittle is
it?
75. Conclusion
• There are many, MANY engines
• Plan what you are making BEFORE
analyzing game engines
• Each engine has unique features –
analyze games, talk to users, demo
the pipeline, examine the code