Complementary skills
Avoiding overpowered characters
Effective counter-characters
GREAT TEAMS
= GREAT GAMES
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CAPTAINS DRAFT
• Process of selecting characters
• Used in many eSports tournaments
• Previously not available for
Awesomenauts players
Wikipedia User:
DarthBotto
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AUDIENCE
Tournaments,
Streamers and Commentators
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Flickr
User:daniel-e
AUDIENCE
Casual Players
Keeping the app accessible
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Server setup
Communication
with lobby server
Communication
with players
Local server
discovery
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DEMO
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RELEASE
• Two releases so far
• Installer and website set up to
make installation easy
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FEEDBACK
COMMUNITY
Helping drive development
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Lots of possible features
• Per-server theming
• Replays
• More config options
• Mock sessions
WHAT’S NEXT?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
• Feature requests documented
on JIRA
• Source available on BitBucket
bitbucket.org/nautdrafter
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• Character Drafting for Awesomenauts
• Built using Java + JavaFX
• Various network technologies
• Open source