Course Topics Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows Day 1 – September 9Day 2 – September | Intro & Unity Overview06 | Optimizing your games 02 | 2D Game Development 07 | Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Unity 03 | 2D & 3D Asset Creation08 | Marketing and Monetization 04 | 3D Game Development 09 | Using prime[31] to connect your Unity game to Azure 05 | Building for the Windows Platform10 | Adding the finishing touches
Meet Adam Tuliper | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft – Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Web Technologies – Emphasis on secure development practices 20 years of industry experience as software architect – Enterprise, startups, public sector, defense, healthcare, financial, gaming – channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AdamTuliper Video content – adamtuliper.com
Meet Dave Voyles | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft – Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Web Technologies – Based out of Philadelphia & Baltimore 4+ years of gaming industry experience – Author: Unrealscript Gameplay Programming Cookbook – Worked on Xbox 360 & One at Comcast – davevoyles.azurewebsites.net
Meet Carl Callewaert | Lead Evangelist, Unity Contact information: – Carls enthusiasm for gaming builds on 10 years of production and evangelism experience and he loves sharing that enthusiasm with the Unity community. Prior to Unity, Carl worked on AAA and indie games and as a contract worker for Autodesk Education.
Meet Tobiah Marks | Game Evangelist, Microsoft – Focused on indie game development and startups – Based out of Mountain View, California – 5+ years indie game development experience Contact information: – Blog: – Podcast:
Meet Matt Newman Founder, Subscience Studios – Recently completed work on Hail to the King: Deathbat for the band Avenged Sevenfold Creator of “GraveStompers” for iOS / Android / Amazon for Mad Menace Entertainment 12+ years of industry experience as a digital artist. – MatthewNewman.net – Worked with such clients as Marilyn Manson and Interscope Records –
Meet David Crook | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft – Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Dev Ops – Emphasis on Idea to Delivery ALM Ranger Dev Ops Consulting at Fortune 100 companies Contact at – –
Meet Jason Fox | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft – Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Client Technologies 13 years of industry experience as software developer – Games, graphics, data visualization and UX design – Blog - jasongfox.com
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Join us for upcoming Jump Starts! ▪ September 11: Porting Unity Games to Windows Store and Windows PhonePorting Unity Games to Windows Store and Windows Phone ▪ September 25: Developing Games with Construct 2Developing Games with Construct 2 ▪ September 30-October 1: Developing Universal Windows Apps (C#/XAML) Jump StartDeveloping Universal Windows Apps (C#/XAML) Jump Start ▪ October 2 & 9: Developing 2D Games with HTML5Developing 2D Games with HTML5 ▪ October 16 & 23: WebGL 3D Game Development with Babylon.jsWebGL 3D Game Development with Babylon.js