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Plot Structure for Games
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
There are a variety of different plot structures out there that appeal to game developers. The Hero's Journey is the most famous, but there's the three act structure, the five act structure, the mythic structure, and a variety of other story structures which all have the same problem - they're not interactive. Plot structure is a tricky beast before you add (and dare I say focus on) gameplay and interactivity. How do we take the storytelling wisdom...
$40
Idea to Reality - Planning Strategies for Game Dev
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
How do you approach game development? How do you turn your ideas into actual games? How do you get an idea in the first place? How do you stay motivated enough to finish your game? This class will provide students with exercises and tools for developing realistic game design goals. This class is appropriate for students who want to make a game but don't know where to start, as well as seasoned game developers who want to learn new tools for developing...
$25
Physical Gaming - Anything Can Be A Controller
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
At this point in the history of video game creation, developers and engineers have mastered the basic formula for input. Most controllers now feature one or more joysticks, a direction pad, and a number of buttons. As successful as this model is, it greatly limits interactivity between player and game. Developers are forced to utilize this input or require extra equipment, which deters them from creating their own controllers because of added cost...
Free
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Real World VR Game Development - The Complete Pipeline
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
As the lead developer on Z0NE for two years now, to this point where I now direct a small committed team, including a lead artist and a lead designer, I have had to master many disciplines which extend beyond the Unity Editor. A solid understanding of all these things is what makes an excellent VR developer. With only two hours, we will explore a meaningful cross-section of the real-world skills required to make VR games quickly. Featured Topics:...
$25
Class: Intro to Adventure Game Studio
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Learn the basics of Adventure Game Studio and create a small practice game. Adventure Game Studio has been one of the more popular tools for making point and click adventure games for the past 15 years. In this class, students will learn everything that they need to build a game from the ground up, including basic coding, how to implement animations, backgrounds, and sound. We’ll go step by step and create our assets, followed by a crash course...
$25
Mastering the Art of Scaling Your Mobile Game
Playcrafting NYC @ 30 W 26th St, New York, NY
Understand your metrics like LTV, and have a financial plan to sustain your mobile game’s growth over time. So you’ve launched your mobile game, now what? It is imperative to have a plan on how to finance and sustain your growth after launch and a clear understanding of your metrics to know what’s really happening in your game. In this class, our friends from Pollen will equip you with new thinking and the financial tools you need to...
Free
Building Mixed Reality Experiences
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Microsoft HoloLens is the world’s first self-contained, untethered head-mounted holographic computing device for Mixed Reality (MR). Mixed reality blends 3D holographic content into your physical world, giving your holograms real-world context and scale, allowing you to interact with both digital content and the world around you. HoloLens lets you go beyond the screen, with Holograms that let you visualize and work with your digital content in...
Free
Project Management for Game Developers
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Learn time-tested tools and techniques for managing scope, cost and time to help your game projects run smoothly. Game development is tricky! Schedules slip, deadlines fly by, that small feature you added ballooned up into a huge resource hog. Team members aren't exactly sure what to do and spin their wheels, and the resources (including time and money) that you'd planned for the whole game were used up in the first half. While there aren't any...
$25
Playcrafting + Microsoft Global Game Jam
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Playcrafting and Microsoft are collaborating on a huge jam site in NYC for the 2017 Global Game Jam! Join us for a weekend of game-making plus free talks and workshops, refreshments and prizes! Stay tuned to this page as we confirm speakers, workshops and prizes in the coming weeks! What to Bring All of your own equipment (laptops, cords, adapters, software, etc). Anything you need to jam and make a game this weekend will need to be brought by...
Info Session: Winter 2017 Game Courses
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
DON'T JUST PLAY GAMES, MAKE THEM! This info session will preview topics from our upcoming courses starting in February! Don't miss this opportunity to meet the instructors and find out more about the courses. Bring any questions or concerns you may have about signing up.
Free
Pixel Art: From Start to Finish
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Learn about the different art styles, how to become a pixel artist yourself and how to use it for your own games! This class will teach you all the basics you’ll ever need when it comes to pixel art. First, we’ll define what pixel art actually is: An aesthetic! An aesthetic that can have several different types of art styles. The most common art style techniques being black outlines, pillow shading, and/or dithering. After we’ve defined...
$25
Demo & Play: Games Showcase
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Live game demos. Playtime. Pizza. Playcrafting is the place to see and play the newest independent games being made in New York and meet the people who built them. Each month, we get together to watch developers explain the mechanics and origins of their games while doing live game demos. Attendees then play each game with the developers behind them. Join our community of game developers, designers, creatives, investors and more building across...
$15
Editor Scripting in Unity
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Ever wondered how other indies developed these cool tools in Unity like Playmaker and Behavior Designer? How did they get these custom sliders, text fields, and list appearing in their Inspectors? Well, this class aims to teach you how to create these intuitive inspectors, so you can help speed up your game development process. Please have the latest version of Unity installed! Goal: To develop cool and customized inspectors to help...
$25
Simplifying AI Prototyping in Unity
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Artificial Intelligence can produce amazing results in games and brings (mostly) sensible and believable behaviours for your characters. Of course, how do you get around it and start implementing the behaviours for your game? Do you need to code a complexframework just to build it? What about visualizing your AI when running it after you’ve coded it? These are the usual questions when developing AI that’s custom to your...
$43.19
Project Management for Games - Idea to Distribution
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Students will design a project plan template to guide the production of a game to completion. During this class, attendees will discuss the steps to publishing and distributing a game. Students should come with an idea for a tabletop or a digital game. We will discuss all the operational aspects to completing a game including funding, manufacturing, and distribution. Each class member will have an opportunity to design a full project plan. Upon...
$25
Creating Cross-Platform VR Games with WebVR
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Interested in the amazing world of VR? Can’t decide which headset to develop on? This class will get you up and running with a simple VR game that’ll run on any headset using the Babylon.js framework! The source code will be publicly available with additional resources so you’ll be able to re-build the game yourself and continue development long after the talk is over. Prior coding or JavaScript experience not needed but recommended.
Free
Contracts for Game Developers
Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY
Join Chris Reid, indie game lawyer, as he takes attendees on a deep dive into the most important and common types of contracts in game development and what you need to know about them. Chris will walk the class through five common and important contracts that developers and games professionals are likely to encounter and need to understand. After covering general tips about understanding contracts, he will go through each type of contract and decode...
Free
Open Mic + Play
Playcrafting NYC @ 50 Bowery St, New York, NY
This is not your average Demo & Play! Join us as we host an Open Mic for game creators! You won’t find anyone reciting poems or singing songs here, but instead, we will have a lineup of indie developers showcasing their games. You won’t know who’s presenting until you get there. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or an amateur programmer who just made your first beta version, we want YOU presenting your game! And for all you gamers...
$10
Game Design Theory Workshop
PlayWell @ 163 Pacific St., New York, NY
Good games become great when careful design principles are cultivated. This workshop is squarely focused on teaching those principles through impromptu, experimental game creation. In two days, attendees will go from concept to launching physical games with the support of mentors. At the end, we'll invite the public for a play event to see your work. Topics of learning: Game Design Principles of game design focusing on mechanics and feedback mechanisms....
$200
Make Your First Game
We'll take you from ideation to execution. No prior skills in development or design required. Come as you are and leave a newly minted game maker. Topics of Learning: Unity Engine (Like Photoshop, but for games.) Game Scripting (We'll teach you some basic C# to get you started scripting your games.) Ideation (Game ideation is it's own practice. We'll walk you through some finer points and refine your ideas.) Testing & Feedback (Building...
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