Introduction
Pleased to meet you
Michael Henretty
Jacob Lyles
Billy Lamberta
A little more about us
- All worked in Game Industry
- Startup called Game Closure
- open source mobile HTML5 game toolkit
- Games on App store & Google Play
- 500K+ downloads
- Worked on all parts of Game Dev
- code, docs, tools, revenue, support
Topics for class
- HTML/CSS/JS Basics
- Web Developer Tools
- HTML5 Drawing APIs
- Animation with HTML5
- Web Audio
- Game Developement Theory
- Game flow
- Performance Optimization
- Deploying as Apps
We won't cover
- 3D, or WebGL
- too complex for 1 week
- concepts can apply to 2D & 3D
- Game Frameworks
- Unity, Construct2, CraftJS
- could spends weeks on each one
- Game Design
- best part of making games
- Do it yourself!
Our Goals
- Learn how games are built
- which APIs to use
- deubgging, profiling, optimizing
- what tools are available
- How to put games on the Market
- Android, iOS, desktop
- How to Monetize
- Everyone builds multiples games!
You will need:
- A Laptop
- Firefox Nightly
- Text Editor
- That's it!
- no special applications
- no expensive hardware
- no license
Questions
- Send Questions to:
ntu.questions@gmail.com - Lectures
- Hands-on labs
- Suggestions/Feedback
- Pitch Game Ideas
- Start-up Ideas
- Just say hi!