Speaker // Kristina Rothe Kristina is a Game Development Evangelist with Microsoft in Germany. For more than ten years she works with video games and the IT professionally, sharing her knowledge and experience with game developers future and present. This covers technological aspects of the Windows Platform or cloud development as well as organisational and aspects around game development. She is also an avid user of social media (twitter: @kris_rothe, Facebook: Kris Rothe) and blogs about game development on http://2pStart.de (mostly in German). Host // Bitkom Bitkom is the digital association of Germany. Founded in Berlin in 1999 as an association of individual industry associations to represent more than 2,300 companies in the German digital economy, among them 1,000 SMEs, 300 start-ups and almost all global players.

1. The Games Industry
Kristina Rothe, 26.01.2016

2. Kristina Rothe
• Twitter: @kris_rothe
• Game Development Evangelist, Microsoft
• Sr. Project Lead Development, Travian Games
• Project Coordinator, Square Enix Ltd.
• Journalist (Game Development)
• …studied Law ;)
• Next Up: Senior Project Management: Tobii

3. Agenda
• “Actual” Games Industry
• Other applications of games
• Getting started
• Local Community?

4. The Games Industry
• AAA companies: Electronic Arts,
Microsoft, Ubisoft, Rockstar…
• Plenty smaller companies, mobile, web,
PC, console
• “indie developers”
• Publishing
• Press

5. …but wait! There’s more!
• Events
• Learning
• Health
• Gamification

6. Generalists & Specialists
Support Community Organization
Code
Design Music
System
Architecture
Art
Write

7. Start big?

8. 2 Days
Development –
$50k/Day
- Just an extreme example
- Start small, faster learning
successes to share

9. Get started
• Check some tutorials online
• 2D? 3D? Lots of free tools
• Try them, follow guides online
• Find your favorite tool:
• Twine, Game Maker, Unreal Engine,
Unity, RPGMaker, Löve...
• Join the community

10. Community
• Great overview: BerlinGameScene.com
• Facebook Group: Berlin Game Developers Meetup
• User groups (for example Unity)
• Four highly recommendable events:
• Talk & Play (3 short talks + games from local developers)
• Berlin Mini Jam (Game Jam/Hackathon – Monthly)
• Global Game Jam (Hackathon)
• A Maze Festival in Berlin (annual, April)
• Learn, try, talk to people, create games together

11. Thanks!