Development Tools, Technologies and Approaches at King

2. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
Development Tools,
Technologies and Approaches at
King
Oleg Pridiuk, Evangelist, King
twitter: @iwozik
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

3. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
• Ex Unity Technologies (since the early days)
• Ex Game Insight (games production FTW!)
• Now King Evangelist (how cool is the job title!)
• Twitter: @iwozik
• Also cares about
• Game Engine Roundtables
• Game Development Streaming
• Game Jams
Why listen or care?
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

4. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf
GAME
BI
(Tracking, A/B)
Store
(Products & prices)
Social
(User & Graph)
Defold
Fiction Factory
Unity
Production
capabilities
Operational
capabilities
KingSDK
Game
(State & sync)
Developing a game vs Shipping a
game

5. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
Games have to be designed for
the top charts
Time to actually start playing
Battery drain
Network performance
Storage consumption
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

6. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
We made our internal
technology public and free
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

7. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
I am not converting you to #Defold whatsoever
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

8. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
King and external teams enjoy Defold when
they
• Are making a mainly 2D game
• Care about multiplatform
• Care about HTML5
• Care about tools just working
• Care the game works fast, loads fast, looks good
• Have a programmers centered team:
• Scripting is in Lua - 5.1 atm
• Rendering loop is open – OpenGL
• Vertex and Fragment shaders – GLSL
• Profiling on the device and remotely
• Debugging on device with ZeroBrane
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

9. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential
• Games have to be designed for the top grossing
charts
• Poor runtime performance may spoil all your
marketing and operation efforts
• King has shared big part of internal tools as
Defold game engine to showcase the technical
excellence
• Defold is awesome for 2D cross-platform games
designed to perform well on low-end devices and
web
The take away
twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

10. © King.com Ltd 2016 – Commercially confidential twitter: @iwozik at #defold - #WNConf

11. Thank you!Oleg Pridiuk, Evangelist, King
twitter: @iwozik
#Defold
#WNConf