Video Game Fest 2014 , Bangaluru!

The Experience of a Game Dev !

Last week , I and  Abhishek Nandy traveled all the way to Bangalore to attend Video Game Fest 2014.The very first and one of its own kind . Video Game Fest- a massive ensemble of hundreds of gamers across the country and many enthusiastic game developers who showcased their games as individuals or as startups and finally followed by a game dev session and hands on . Video Game Fest  2014 was sponsored by Microsoft and Dumadu Games.

 

 DOTA ,Call of Duty and much more waiting to be played.

Xbox and Xbox One.. Dance Central 3 //Out Of The Box Experience//

Upon Arrival

We collected our game developer passes [pass of VGF2014] and walked right into the gaming realm. The place was full of different startups booths  and a giant Microsoft gaming platform.We quickly rushed in  and grabbed a place (Again,thanks to Dumadu games for the help) where we started off setting up our systems to showcase our game "Barbarian Assault".

The Exposure

In a short while, we literally had no room to breath . Abhishek and me got the crowd engaged with the game and the experience.The people were thrilled with the awesome graphics of the game and finally the press interview followed. We got Interviewed by The New Indian Express and Deccan Herald.

Abhishek demoing the game

 
Cover of  New Indian Express

http://tinyurl.com/covernie

Cover of Deccan Hearld
http://tinyurl.com/covervgfdh

The interview was followed by a round of discussion with Ujjwal Kumar who asked all of us to move toward the game dev conf section where the dev conf were about to begin.So we rushed in to another big conference all with about 50+ people who were there to hear and get hands on experience of porting labs.

The Game Dev Conference

The game dev conf began with Ujjwal Kumar, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft talking about "Gaming In India" where we went in depth about how game dev is catching up as an career and Microsoft is taking the leading front in making this industry more vibrant one.After Ujjwal, Abhishek went up the stage and talked about his experience as game developer, went deeper with game dev with Project Anarchy and how to develop Cross Platform games.Followed by Vidyasagar, Microsoft MVP for Games for Windows.Followed by Unity Porting labs hands on. After a lip smacking dinner the video game fest came to an end.Video Game Fest ,Bangalore 2014 , You were a complete package.

Session on cross platform game dev

Demoing Intel XDK and Anarchy

Me and Ahishek Striking a pose

The First Week Progress Bar

To start with Geek Monkey Studios submitted their proposal for IDF'14 where the main emphasis was on how more and more fuctionality can be given to an application using the Intel RealSense SDK and Processing incorporating Intel Real Sense.The work to this time was not that much because we had only 4 days to sum up all that we could have done.

The targets and Big picture aims

1.Implementing Voice in Processing using Intel RealSense SDK 

2.Evolving the Existing RPG in Project Anarchy by implementation Intel Real Sense from Intel RealSense SDK .This will result in accepting gestures as an input of the game and also voice.

Roadblocks:

The device our team has are not enough capable of rendering game engine like havok and the intel Gesture camera is being supported in i3 2nd Gen + .So which is also becoming a bottleneck point.

The technical roadblock in case of Anarchy is the non existing Sample Application which is being described as a part of RealSense SDK documentation on Havok.We will be coming up with another detailed post on this with the exact LOC and screenshots in the later half of this month.

Preparation for Upcoming challenges:

we are brainstorming about what to do in the upcoming IOT explorer and the RealSense challenges.Major focus is on breaking the predefined behavior of interaction better the game and the player by implementing voice and  gesture controls. Lua,Cinder and Processing are the prime area of focus.Besides, this we are trying to build new stuffs on top of existing demos of Anarchy.

The proposal video will give a better picture of how fast we have been growing and though its our first time submitting the IDF proposal but we still promise to take our work to a whole different level with the kind coordination from Intel.

    

The {Pre-Process} Involvement with Technologies

We have already published lot of articles on other major Websites and we will be doing it on a regular basis.

Sharing Some of them.

This is an article written for Intel RealSense SDK and keeping the future aspects of HTML 5 and JavaScript Developers

This article covers a detail of Intel XDK,Crosswalk runtime and WebGL

The next article is a award winning article at CodeProject for Developing apps for Ultrabook



Hope you will like it more updates to follow.

Welcome to the New world

This page will be solely dedicated to Geek monkey studios and its progress in the field of technology and also the achievement and articles from the developers at Geek Monkey.Mostly,with Intel Technologies and Open source contribution this web log will help the reader get an idea about the internal progress that is taking place which are worth mentioning for our well wishers and clients who would then wish to give us opportunity with freelance projects.

This weblog will have two authors,Sumantro and Abhishek who will keep this space updated as much as possible.Most importantly with the advent of new technologies this will soon emerge as a knowledge base for people who would like to work hands on with us.So,stay tuned for we will be updating this in a very short while.