It is taking place during the day, Microsoft Game Dev Camp in Lisbon.
The event takes place at Microsoft facilities located in the Park Nations where, for the second consecutive year, Microsoft brings together some of the best producers of domestic video games and many interested in the topic.
As it could not be the Pplware is present at the event and brings you the first part of a day that is to be memorable.
Microsoft Game Dev Camp
Microsoft Game Dev Camp is taking place in Lisbon, in Microsoft’s facility is the second time this event is held. It can be said that 2014 was the year of the debut but this year is certainly the consecration.
This event aims to monitor and encourage the development of video games in Portugal. The initiative also involves the creation of the necessary conditions for more domestic games will emerge and that most studios are going to be getting up and launch their ideas. It is undoubtedly a gaming event for producers and video game lovers.
If last year’s event has been a success the 2015 most successful being … both in presentations and their content, number of visitors, brands and speakers invited … the agenda of Microsoft Game Dev Camp 2015 (which can be accessed here) is filled with many good reasons for all who go to the Nations Park leave satisfied.
With beginning at 9:30 am the host Miguel Vicente (Microsoft) gave the kick-off to Microsoft Game Dev Camp 2015. In this presentation (keynote) that took just over 1 hour and a half, Miguel gave all present a sense of what this day will be for visitors and guests.
Miguel Vicente gave so the motto and in a very relaxed manner beginning with a brief analysis of last year’s event, far exceeding all expectations gave greater strength and motivation for achievement of this year.
And, as was can check inloco , the number of participants and 2015 edition of the visitors was clearly a success … just in Keynote the room quickly filled and many of the spectators had to stand on the side walls, the stairs and the background. A room that will take far more than 300 people was filled with eager staff by the news that they would emerge soon.
35 high quality speakers
On the menu, more than 35 speakers ( a few more surprises along the way) pointing to a full day of fun, revelations, emotion and games … many games.
Miguel Vicente then continued his early stage of presentation, making a brief reference to partnerships that enabled realization of this event, mentioning brands like MiniClip, Gamelof, Nerd Monkeys, InDot, among others.
Then Miguel Vicente invited onstage Caroline Philips, Director for the area of Development and Entrepreneurship. Caroline, who joined Microsoft with the clear objective of further approaching the company of the producers (developers, IT professionals, startups and students) began to reveal that Portugal is able to gradually get out of the lethargy that existed.
According to figures presented by Caroline, the last 3 years Portugal has developed more games in the last 30 years. It is a sign no doubt that Portugal has the value and potential … sometimes lack the courage and the necessary capital.
The next to be called to the stage was Petri Wilhelmsen, a Microsoft Program Manager Norwegian that we again find later and in this his first time made some words about User Interfaces of video games and the way that the Universal Windows Platform platform is particularly important in the development of Windows on games.
In addition to also mention some of the development advantages with the Windows APIs 10 (which allow cross-platform development) still showed some peculiarities of the latest Visual version Studio that can be used to improve the game development with this tool.
The cloud in video game development
Finished this first appearance with a demo developed in Visual Studio, which showed some pieces of code that allow interaction with Cortana, Syntesys Speech and Speech Recognition.
Then it was the turn of Luis Calado come on stage. Calado is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist, as he likes to be called and has demonstrated the power of the cloud and the use of capital gains in video game development. As Luis Calado said, this is the “ video games of the invisible part ” but that nonetheless has a crucial importance for the game and their performance.
he showed in his speech a trailer for a game that many of you may have seen at Gamescom or at E3, Crackdown 3 (out in 2016) and is the most visible example of this videogame development paradigm. The motto of Calado, can be described as “ power the cloud to Enhance games .”
Luis Calado also said the whole set of gains that services Microsoft cloud make it possible for developers, both the communication level (TCP, UDP, …), interoperability (Twilio, Sendgrid, …), metrics, Game Services (Facebook, Twiter, …).
ID @ Xbox
However, a brief climb the stage for Agostino Simonetta, responsible European by @ Xbox ID, the program that allows independent developers of video games publishing games on Xbox One console and the new Windows 10.
The idea is to create more and better conditions for developers (indies) can quickly and easily have all the tools at its disposal for developing games. But for all phases of development of a video game and we are referring to, scheduling, storage, media marketing, … ie a continuous and transversal support to the entire process of developing a video game for both Xbox One as . for Windows 10
In short Simonetta, also noted some gains to register an @ Xbox ID:
- Full Access Xbox (all features)
- Full Access to Xbox Live Stack on Windows 10
- No fees for updates
- 2 Xbox Dev free kits in timing
Some figures Simonetta revealed that still point to more than 1,000 developers have registered on Xbox @ ID program, with over 150 games released since the Gamescom 2015 …
What happens Home?
Miguel Vicente returned to the stage again to make way for another topic … “ What happens Home? ” and for this chapter, Ivan Barroso was the speaker that followed
Ivan Barroso, course teacher “ Multimedia Applications & amp.; Video “ the Lusophone and video game historian did on their” airtime “a clear allusion to the way the national panorama game development is the move … for the better. He referred again to numbers similar to that Caroline Philips mentioned and also said in terms of curiosity that in 2010 there were 13 development studios in Portugal and currently there are over 80.
Note that Ivan Barroso is author of three books on videogames area, “ History of video games – Industry Genesis ” by “ Service Games: The rise and fall of Sega ” and of “ (R) Evolution Interactive – visual encyclopedia of video games .”
Finally, and as a teaser for his presentation of the afternoon, left the air a few words about developing games currently in Portugal …
And speaking of new games … Miguel Vicente returned to the stage and , this time to present a few games that are in development (or who have already left for the market) giving the audience some high moments of euphoria and satisfaction.
What is being done around here
“ Smash Time ” Bica Studios, “ Greedy Guns” of Uncle Tuna Studios, “ Drawn to Light “the B5 Studios,” Quest of Dungeons “ of Upfall Studios … were some of the featured titles.
Tiago Loureiro (Raindance LX Studios) also made his ascent to stage to talk a little ‘ Between me and the Night “game that has just been released and can now be purchased on Steam. James also mentioned another initiative in which is involved in support of children living in conflict zones (Palestine, Cyprus, …) through video games.
Finally, the Nerd Monkeys, in the person of Philip Pina took the stage left in the air the idea of a return of “Murder in Hotel Lisbon.”
Finally, Luis Antonio just arrived from Canada talked a bit about your experience in Rockstar, in Ubisoft and about your current project, “ The Witness .”
The clock was ticking and Keynote advancing the striding to the final but not before a special thanks to the event’s partner, Miniclip that through Ricardo Vladimiro revealed some news from Miniclip world, where we learned that the games of the brand recently achieved the fantastic 10 million daily users … ie have almost the population of Portugal playing at the same time.
The time has come to an end … and Keynote finished in a strong round of applause that was expected to rest day magnificently past.
Microsoft is to be commended, the national panorama video game production is to be congratulated!
Our thanks to Microsoft!
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