Day 1 September 9 Day 2 September 10 01 | Intro & Unity Overview 06 | Optimizing your games 02 | 2D Game Development 07 | Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Unity 03 | 2D & 3D Asset Creation 08 | Marketing and Monetization 04 | 3D Game Development 09 | Using prime[31] to connect your Unity game to Azure 05 | Building for the Windows Platform 10 | Adding the finishing touches Meet Adam Tuliper | @AdamTuliper Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Web Technologies Emphasis on secure development practices 20 years of industry experience as software architect Enterprise, startups, public sector, defense, healthcare, financial, gaming channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AdamTuliper Video content adamtuliper.com Meet Dave Voyles | @DaveVoyles Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Web Technologies Based out of Philadelphia & Baltimore 4+ years of gaming industry experience Author: Unrealscript Gameplay Programming Cookbook Worked on Xbox 360 & One at Comcast davevoyles.azurewebsites.net Meet Carl Callewaert | @CarlUnity Lead Evangelist, Unity Contact information: Twitter: @CarlUnity Carls enthusiasm for gaming builds on 10 years of production and evangelism experience and he loves sharing that enthusiasm with the Unity community. Prior to Unity, Carl worked on AAA and indie games and as a contract worker for Autodesk Education.
Meet Tobiah Marks | @TobiahMarks Game Evangelist, Microsoft Focused on indie game development and startups Based out of Mountain View, California 5+ years indie game development experience Contact information: Blog: www.TobiahMarks.com Podcast: www.BeIndieNow.com Meet Matt Newman Founder, Subscience Studios Recently completed work on Hail to the King: Deathbat for the band Avenged Sevenfold Creator of GraveStompers for iOS / Android / Amazon for Mad Menace Entertainment 12+ years of industry experience as a digital artist. MatthewNewman.net Worked with such clients as Marilyn Manson and Interscope Records https://www.youtube.com/user/mnewmanart
Meet David Crook | @DavidCrook1988 Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Dev Ops Emphasis on Idea to Delivery ALM Ranger Dev Ops Consulting at Fortune 100 companies Contact at www.IndieDevSpot.com Twitter @DavidCrook1988 Meet Jason Fox | @JasonGFox Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Client Technologies 13 years of industry experience as software developer Games, graphics, data visualization and UX design Blog - jasongfox.com Join the MVA Community! Microsoft Virtual AcademyFree online training! Tailored for IT Pros and Developers Over 2M registered users Earn while you learn! 50 MVA Points for this event! Visit http://aka.ms/MVA-Voucher Code: 2D3Dunity (expires 10/10/2014) Great MSPress Books Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781782171966.do Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781849692380.do Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2013 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118845714.do Suggested Resources Programming Kinect for Windows v2 Jump Start Windows 8.1 UX Design Jump Start Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 Jump Start Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners
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