From connected single-player to real-time multiplayer, are you ready to explore the spectrum of connected games? See how you can utilize Unity and the cloud to build and scale games to serve a global audience. Speakers: Micah Baker (Google Cloud) Brandi House (Unity Technologies)

1. The Future of Connected Games:
Unity and Google Cloud
Micah Baker
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Brandi House
Product Manager
Unity

2. Connected
games

3. of the top played Steam games
are connected games
Most Played
of the top watched Twitch games
are connected games
Most Watched
of the top grossing Google Play apps
are connected games
Most Rev Gen
Connected Games are the Most Successful
87% 90% 90%

4. “Connectedness” ⬆
= Engagement (Content, Gameplay) ⬆
= Success (Retention, Monetization) ⬆
Connected Games are the Most Successful

5. Connected Games “Levels”
Incentives/Rewards
Competition/Cooperation
People Interaction
Game State Mgmt
L1
L2
Real-time MP Tech
L3
L4
Community vs Toxicity
Persistent World Tech
“Dynamic Single Player”
“Turn-based Multiplayer”
“Real-Time Multiplayer”
“Persistent Game Spaces”

6. Retention:
Players peek through the door, but they
rarely step inside.
L1: Dynamic Single Player

7. Keep your eye on the prize...
Incentives

8. Can’t stop. There’s another
cat just above me.
Competition

9. Cooperation With our powers combined...

10. See L1 +
People Interactions
Async Multiplayer Tech
Cheat Detection / Prevention
L2: Turn-based Multiplayer

11. Humans are messy….
People Interactions
and sometimes need help communicating.

12. Async Multiplayer Tech

13. Cheat Detection / Prevention
Detect:
Prevent:
What are you doing...

14. See L1+L2 ++
Real-Time Multiplayer Tech
Toxicity vs Community
L3: Real-Time
Multiplayer
The-Cat-House - DeviantArt

15. Real-time Multiplayer Tech
The Co-operatives

16. Real-timeMultiplayerTech

17. Community vs Toxicity
Some say it’s like herding cats...
Chat/emotes
Clans/Guilds
Forums / offline chat
Player Management

18. See L1+L2+L3 ++
Persistent World Tech
L4: Persistent World
©2013-2018 metalparts

19. Meta Servers
Patch Server
Database / Sync
More...
Persistent World Tech
https://www.mmorpg.com/

20. Summary of Challenges
Incentives/Rewards - novelty, balance, individualization, schedule
Competition/Cooperation - ID, shared stats, cheating, notification
People Interaction - Friends: invites, chat; Strangers: filtering/emotes, skill matching
Game State Mgmt - latency tolerance, frequency, reliability, client authority / cheating
L1
L2
Real-time MP Tech - speed/QoS, core networking, cheating, cost
L3
L4
Community vs Toxicity - forums, clans (self mgmt), player management
Persistent World Tech - meta servers, patch servers, sharding, data synchronization, more...

21. The Path Forward
Quality Accessibility
Scalable
Flexible
Fast/performant
Reliable
Cost-down
Usability

22. Micah Baker
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Power Up Your Connected Games
Google Cloud

23. Open Build your game your way
Secure Protect your game and data
Innovative New solutions for new problems
Scalable Performant, reliable and cost effective scale
Google Cloud

24. Connected games need cloud infrastructure
L4
Connectedness
Infrastructure
L3
L2
L1

25. Cloud Infrastructure & Extended Services
Development Environment & Managed Services
Google Cloud

26. ● Global game databases
● Innovative AI/ML models
● Connected game services
Innovate
● Launch coordination
● Capacity planning
● Fast game server scaling
● Operations monitoring
Launch
● Dynamic game content
● Improved matchmaking
● Game analytics
Engage
Google Cloud + Unity power connected games

29. How should I design my game?
Rethink global.
Google Cloud

31. I want to use more...
Machine Learning.
Google Cloud

32. Machine learning is...
● One branch of the field of Artificial Intelligence
● A way of solving problems without explicitly codifying the solution
● A way of building systems that improve themselves over time

33. Games built Google ML

34. Google “applied learning” projects

35. Applying ML to gaming
Testing and QA bots
In game chat translations
Player assistance
Fraud & cheat detection
Finding a good match Tracking player toxicity

36. Google is...
Democratizing ML.
https://ai.google/education
Google Cloud

41. Challenge accepted...
Launch&Scale
Get Help
Build
Innovate
L1: Dynamic Single Player
L2: Turn-based Multiplayer
L3: Real-time Multiplayer Session-Based
L4: Persistent World Real-Time

42. On the horizon...
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Brandi House
Product Manager
Unity

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Dedicated Game Servers
● Hosting and Scaling
● Runtime
● Deploying and Sharing
● Monitor and Debug

44. 24x7x365 Support
Personal Account Management
Hundreds of games launched
Host and Scale with Multiplay and GCP
Dedicated Game Servers
Premium Support
Rapid scaling for your game, driven
by player demand
Zero Downtime patching
Health and Uptime management
Powerful Tech
Hybrid blend of Cloud and Bare
Metal
Global scale for your launch
Cost optimized solutions
Flexible Infrastructure

45. Optimizing Unity Headless Linux Runtime
Dedicated Game Servers
Time for a diet...

46. Deploy and Share Tools with Cloud Build
Dedicated Game Server

47. Monitor and Debug in Dev Dashboard
Dedicated Game Servers

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Networking
● ECS-compatible
Transport Layer
● FPS “Archetype”

49. 49
Matchmaking
● OSS Project with GCP
● Unity Managed Service

50. Flexible foundations
Matchmaking

51. Beyond the horizon...
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● Player Auth/ID
● Friends/Invites/Parties
● Game state management
● Player economy / rewards
● … tell us what you need!

52. Unity and Google Alliance
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Unity:
○ Accessible Game Dev
Tools and Workflows
○ Multiplay orchestration
Google:
○ Massive scale cloud
services and infrastructure
○ Flexible and Open

53. Questions?
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