Speaker Series - Week 3 | Slow Jam
When: Sunday, August 17th | 6:00pm
Where: Winnipeg Game Collective Discord
Discord Invite Link: https://discord.gg/gamecollective
🎮 About the Event:
Khalid "Raigon" | Solo Programmer ─ From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs | ”In fast-paced games, nothing breaks immersion faster than a stutter or frame drop. This talk dives deep into the critical performance bottlenecks that can derail your game and shows you how to avoid them through smart, high-level and low-level optimization techniques."
Lucky Adams | Solo Developer/Artist ─ Why Your UI Is Terrible And You Hate Working On It | ”Even seasoned game designers and developers can struggle with making good UI. This talk contains everything you wish you knew about UI from both technical and design perspectives. Together we will learn why UI is often so unpleasant to create, why the user experience is often poor, and what the best UI systems all have in common."
Daniel Gold | Graphics Software Engineer ─ Gameplay Math in Practice | ”A tour of small but powerful gameplay tools that use math to shape how a game feels. Daniel will show how just a bit of math can help your game find its feel, using simple code and quick examples you can drop into your own projects."
Jason Wlter | Certified Scrum Master, Praedatum ─ Storytelling and Symbols in Non-Narrative Games | ”Examining how certain facets of Storytelling can still be essential in games that do not focus heavily on their narrative, or don't even have a narrative at all. A few tangible examples will be used from Praedatum to show how storytelling was used to design more effective levels and enemies in spite of narrative not being core to Praedatum's experience."
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