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Course Topics
Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows
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
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