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
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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.
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| 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
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
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| Session on cross platform game dev |
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| Demoing Intel XDK and Anarchy |
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| Me and Ahishek Striking a pose |
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