How to become GameDev?

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32_oa4BO4oE

Game development probably is one of the most challenging areas of software engineering. With the evolution of wearable devices, like Google Glass, it becomes even more interesting. This presentation is a quick walk through glass games ideology, resources and sensors we can use and finally tools and frameworks suitable for building next generation games.

Transcript

1. How to become GameDev? Vitaliy Zasadnyy Game Developer, GDG Lviv founder
2. Serhiy Vitalik &
3. Go to Hackathon
4. Go to conference (and make connections)
5. Make your own projects (at home)
6. Play games
7. Follow right people
8. Read Resources
9. Learn (you still a developer)
10. Understand games
11. You should be communicable
12. Find GAMEDEV company
13. Send a CV
14. Pros & Cons
15. Product not a Project
16. No PM but Game Designer
17. NO specializations
18. Communication with not developers
19. You need to support
20. Requirements can be changed. Completely. (and they will)
21. Product can fail
22. You are responsible
23. Poor documentation... but strong community! (usually)
24. Fun meetings
25. Q&A presentation will be available at: zasadnyy.com/slides/ Vitalik Zasadnyy zasadnyy.com