I participated in presenting my Junk Master series games in AltDevConf 2012 which is an online conference for game developers / designers to join and contribute. Check back at http://haxpor.org/post/17519087508/my-session-links-summary for more detail about the games.

1. Junk Master Series
Design Approaches, Issues, and Best practices

2. What gonna talk ?
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3. Wasin Thonkaew
• Indie Game Developers
for 7 months now
• Thailand
• XNA, Flash/FlashPunk,
iOS/cocos2d-x
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4. #1
Junk Master : The Journey To Junk Lord
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6. Objective
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9. Solve the world’s toughest problem.
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12. Separate Trash
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13. Target Audience
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14. !
PIC
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15. Design
• Pretty simple game concept
• Add more complexities
• Supporting features
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16. Meow ~!~
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17. Basics
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18. Garbage
Trashcans 18

19. Adding Complexities
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20. Preprocess
Garbage Buddy
Gauge
switches
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21. Bird !
Sand worm
Scarecrow
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22. HP
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23. FREEZE
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25. Supporting Features
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27. Quiz
Stats Bookshelf
3Rs Room
eye-candy
Save game
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28. 1
Quiz
2 G-Point
Ultimate Goal !
3 Mission 28
4 BOOM !

29. Future Ideas
• HQ
• Decoration
• Abilities Upgrade
• Real % carbon calculation resulting from
playing
• More / Totally flexible localization
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30. Issues & Tackling
approaches
• Adding localization feature
• Adding complexities
• Special powers
• XNA Framework update 3.1
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31. Takeaways
• Simple is bored but not when decorate it reasonably
• If time is matter, consider continuing on top of it frst.
From Scratch is dangerous in the rushing environment.
• Children = Easy
• Testers != Developers
but
Testers = Gamers / Target Audience
• Gimmick / Lots of Animations are the way to go !
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32. #2
Junk Master : The Quest To Glory
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34. Objective
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36. +
Multi-platform
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37. Just like that ... !
• Existing on mobile device
• Accompany in presentation of PC version
• No concrete plan for commercializing
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38. Design
• Follow the same concept of Junk Master
• Cut down features
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39. Seed idea !
Powers up
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40. New enemies
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41. Issues & Tackling
approaches
• No publisher in Thailand, thus use Yalla Apps
• Touching system, wrapping up on top from
scratch.
• 2 big incremental updates -> stable
• Mission editing tool, no time !
• Decision Making Effect
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42. Takeaways
• Cutting down features leads to something
cool(er)
• If not plan for commercial at the frst place,
expect very unhealthy result at the end.
• 0.99 $ MISTAKE !
• Stick to your TRUE objective
• Practical encryption algorithm is needed, at least.
( Plain text compares What the .ell ?)
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43. #3
Junk Master : The Mission of Recovery
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45. Target Audience
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46. y !
a r
Sc
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47. Design
• Follow the same concept of Junk Master
• Social aspects
• Integrate the business / commercial
compartments of the local bank
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48. Junk Master + Social + Commercial
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49. HOME
Missions
Trade center
Bank
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50. Automatic ranking
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57. Ads
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64. Things to note
• Built on top of FlashPunk as “RESTfoo”
• Dynamic content loader
• Customized UI-entity classes
• Wrapper fading management
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65. Bug !

66. Issues & Tackling
approaches
• Facebook SDK frequently changes
• Platform not free anymore !
• Facebook Platform still has some problems
• Sandbox for beta-testers
• It’s social game, so focus on social aspects.
• Mistakenly identify the initial architecture
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67. Takeaways
• Don’t let perspective from developers ruin !
• Watch out Facebook’s Road Map.
• Testers, if possible take them from your previous game’s
testers.
• Game content should be totally flexible to add later.
• Not rely on game fle, but out of box.
• Beware of browser’s cache.
• Hacking game seems impossible to prevent, but possible to
make it harder and longer to do so.
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69. In-house development
• Game Framework
• Wekarusung 1 & 2 (XNA, PC)
• WekimSlim (XNA, WP7)
• RESTfoo (FlashPunk, Flash)
• AI Framework
• MochAI (for both XNA, Flash)
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70. Contact
Wasin Thonkaew
@haxpor
http://www.facebook.com/jubjubteam

71. Q/A