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Gaming for the Greater Good Horia Dragomir goto;amsterdam @hdragomir "Games lubricate the body and the mind." Benjamin Franklin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++

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Gaming for the Greater Good

Horia Dragomir goto;amsterdam

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@hdragomir

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"Games lubricate the body and the mind." — Benjamin Franklin

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”

  • Bjarne Stroustrup
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A programmer…

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Me, feeling good about my programming skills

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Wooga, where I work, makes casual games for mobile and Facebook in Berlin, Germany

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Problem

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Problem Magic

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Problem Magic No Problem

the normal steps of an application

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http://imgur.com/NvrcQNI

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http://dois-e-meio.blogspot.de/2011/05/skype-tera-suporte-para-xbox-e-o-kinect.html

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Problem

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Problem Reward, New Problem

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Problem Reward, New Problem Reward, New Problem

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Reward, New Problem Reward, New Problem Reward, New Problem

the normal steps in a game

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the main difference between flows in apps and games

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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” ―Isaac Newton Read more at http://izquotes.com/quote/135288

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Game Devs

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Game Devs App Devs

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Game Devs App Devs Programming Language

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Game Devs App Devs Programming Language Hardware

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Game Devs App Devs Programming Language Hardware Humans

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…

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Not one single person in the world knows how to make a pencil

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http://ninja-of-athens.deviantart.com/art/Star-Wars-wallpaper-Evolution-of-Man-332974802

we have always used what’s around us as tools.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/smart-crows-perform-aesop-task-video-2014-3

it’s everywhere in nature.

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http://www.blastr.com/2013-2-5/jon-snow-explains-what-it-was-filming-thrones-35-degrees

"still, no crow programmers"

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so, yeah, I sucked as a game developer at first

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but I got to hang around with some game developers.

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Language Agnostic

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they don’t focus a lot on how

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rather on what they are building

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as you gain experience, best practices emerge

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and you start dealing with negative coordinates from the beginning, rather than shoehorning it in later adding new regions to a map becomes easier

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make sure you think of all the key components and their interactions from the get go

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no, not todo lists. Logical structures

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queues empower you to do so many things

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Hardware

all these clever tricks…

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… and you’ll still be limited

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there are so many platforms, each with their own limitation..

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[Clever Solutions, for Multi Platform]

  • ver the past few years, we’ve had many solutions. We’ve tried many of them at Wooga, but I want to talk about three now
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xplatform from the get-go javascript is a fun language hardware acceleration, which you use to cheat for better performance

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will-change: opacity, transform;

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asm.js

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unity supports both c# and JS and is a great ecosystem for making games

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  • bj-c

but the big boys use obj-c

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but what about multi-platform?

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#ifdef ANDROID

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[Prototyping] The simpler the language, or the more it abstracts, the quicker you are at prototyping in it. HTML5: very easy to lay down the basic mechanics for a game. OBJ-C feels just very grown up, and Unity is quite in the middle.

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all this because of limitations

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all this because of limitations

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all this because of limitations

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you want your users and players to feel some magical moments. For that you’ll need to perform some magic of your own

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OOM

the 2mb story

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static char buffer[1024*1024*2];

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http://www.mine-control.com/zack/winzaq/winzaq.html

http://www.mine-control.com/zack/winzaq/winzaq.html "Heck, we couldn’t even find the collision detection…"

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return rand(); //easy, lol

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return 0.1 + rand(); //there, casual!

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return 0.1 + rand() + time; //grind much?

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  • veralls

hat moustache designed by what can be done

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Yes, I say magic a lot That’s how game devs and app devs are the same

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Yes, I say magic a lot That’s how game devs and app devs are the same

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Smiles and Magic

  • ur legacy, as people who make things
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– Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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