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Dev2Publish CRASH COURSE TO GAME PUBLISHING INTO WINDOWS STORE OR WINDOWS

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Dev2Publish - Kick OffToday’s schedule10:00

The course is introduced

Examples of simple yet successful games

Microsoft presents the possibilities of the Market Place and the tools

11:30

Lunch break

12:30

Game Templates

A student team of Turku Game Lab presents their Unity Tool Unity Codexo Asset Pack for Starters

& templates that are made with it

Other templates are presented

Discussion

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”Have you shipped a game?”

During this course you will gain experience:• how the digital distribution model works• what are the requirements to publish a game• to learn platform specific content creation• how to further develop the product• how to monetize the game• how to name the product• how to plan icons and other marketing material to the game• learn user behavior and get feedback for the game (after

the game is published)• the Game Industry values students who have actually

published games

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Structure• The timetable of the first course from 8th of May to 15th of

June. • 8 hours in a week scheduled laboratory hours on Thursdays

with teachers and experts from the Turku Game Lab present to give support and teach game development

• The experts from Microsoft & Turku Game Lab will give publishing workshop on 5th of June

• We will give a few templates with core mechanics• More advanced students can work with their own project• The aim is to have at least one playable level with future DLC

or an endless runner. • Form form small teams 2-3 students• Game must be submitted 15th of June• Publish EVENT 16th and 17th of June, Publish by 1st of June

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Turku Game Lab

• Development premises: C0011 & Turku Game Lab B2040

• Graphics and Animation support: Taisto Suominen

• Unity & Coding support: Ilmari Lahti• Other Game Lab personnel also available with

various skill set (Toni Heinonen building & publishing)

• Pasi Ketola: audio for your games: soundtrack, effects, voice over etc

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Turku Game Lab 15th of May: Infos and workshopGraphics Info 8:15-12– 2D animation with Photoshop– Spritesheets– Make human – an open source tool for 3D

human creation & Unity Mecanim intergration

12:15Unity Codexo Asset Pack for Starters workshop

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Simple yet successful Games

• Flabby Bird – very simple – Mechanics – Graphics– Gameplay– Team

– Lots of clones: Rovio’s Retry

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Simple yet successful Games

• Hill Climb Racing– very simple – Mechanics – Graphics– Gameplay

– Downloaded over 140 000 000 times– 40% of the revenue from ads

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Simple yet successful Games

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Top 10 Mobile Games Worldwide 2013, Ranked by Downloads

• 1. Candy Crush Saga, King• 2. Subway Surfers, Kiloo• 3. Temple Run 2, Imangi• 4. Despicable Me, Gameloft• 5. Fruit Ninja, Halfbrick• 6. Angry Birds, Rovio• 7. Hill Climb Racing, Fingersoft• 8. Pou, Zakeh• 9. 4 Pics 1 Word, Lotum• 10. Real Racing 3, Electronic Arts

Source: Gamasutra

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Top 10 Mobile Games Worldwide 2013, Ranked by Revenue

• 1. Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo Online• 2. Candy Crush Saga, King• 3. Clash of Clans, Supercell• 4. Hay Day, Supercell• 5 The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Electronic Arts• 6. The Hobbit: Kingdoms, Kabam• 7. Slotomania, Caesars Entertainment• 8. Megapolis, Social Quantum• 9. Pokopang, LINE• 10. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, Kab

Source: Gamasutra

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Project Templates• Tutorial from Unity:

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/infinite-runner. Made to project with commented scripts

– https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4Zfh2Bjj_MQml5My1ueXd5Z2s/edit?usp=sharing

• Arctic Unity Game Kits – Unity Game Templates for the absolute beginners• http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/

• GameSmith’s Apprentice 3 templates :• Sidescrolling Space Shooter with mobile controls• Top down car game with AI• Sidescrolling endless runner• http://goo.gl/Yo6Fte

Learn more• http://learnunity2d.com/• http://unity3d.com/learn• http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-503• http://jukkawallasvaara.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/its-time-to-levelup-with-unity-

resources-links/