#game development

It's never been easier to make your own web game, but it's still extremely difficult. What game should you make? Which engine should you choose? Let's discuss how to answer these problems and ways to leverage the unique platform that is the web.

In this talk, we will dive deeper into the enormous potential of the HTML5 Canvas element as a tool for game development. Starting with an overview of the Canvas API and its graphics capabilities, we will look at the benefits for rendering 2D graphics for web games. Participants will gain insight into optimization techniques, advanced drawing and animation techniques and strategies for leveraging the full capabilities of Canvas to create smooth, high-performance gaming experiences. Filled with real-life examples, this talk is a must-see for professionals looking to take their web games to new heights of performance.

Unity, when deployed on the web, faces three critical challenges: build size, memory usage, and overall performance. This lecture delves deep into advanced optimization techniques to help you address each of these issues. Attendees will gain insights into:
- Effective strategies for optimizing textures, audio, and models.
- A detailed analysis of our ASTC experimentation with Unity, shedding light on the unexpected results despite Unity's claims.
- A comprehensive guide to Unity's memory profiling tool and its implications.
- An exploration of lesser-known Unity settings that remain underutilized by many developers.
Additionally, we'll introduce our
proprietary tool
designed specifically for Unity optimization. We will also showcase CrazyGames' developer dashboard, our platform that enables developers to monitor and enhance the performance of their web-based games seamlessly. 
Join us to equip yourself with the latest strategies and tools to elevate your Unity web gaming projects.

This talk will dive into how to build an AI for a turn based strategy game from scratch. When I started building Athena Crisis, I had no idea how to build an AI. All the available resources were too complex or confusing, so I just started building it based on how I would play the game. If you would like to learn how to build an AI, check out this talk!

In this talk we'll delve into the art of creating something meaningful and fulfilling. Through the lens of my own journey of rediscovering my passion for coding and building a video game from the ground up with JavaScript and React, we will explore the trade-offs between easy solutions and fast performance. You will gain valuable insights into rapid prototyping, test infrastructure, and a range of CSS tricks that can be applied to both game development and your day-to-day work.

The open source PlayCanvas game engine is built specifically for the browser, incorporating 10 years of learnings about optimization. In this talk, you will discover the secret sauce that enables PlayCanvas to generate games with lightning fast load times and rock solid frame rates.

LittleJS is a super lightweight game engine that is easy to use and powerfully fast. The developer will talk about why he made it, what it does, and how you can use it to create your own games. The talk will include a demonstration of how to build a small game from scratch with LittleJS.

During this session, we’ll see a couple of demos of what you can do using WebXR, with Babylon.js. From VR audio experiments, to casual gaming in VR on an arcade machine up to more serious usage to create new ways of collaboration using either AR or VR, you should have a pretty good understanding of what you can do today.
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Let's talk about threejs, react three fiber and how to start developing games using 3d libraries and physics engines.

raygui is a very lightweight immediate-mode UI intended for tools development, combined with raylib, it allows the creation of small high-performant wasm web tools. In this talk we will analyze this specific use case for tools development.

Rogule is an emoji based open source online roguelike game that started life as a 7DRL game jam entry. It has now grown to around 1,500 games per day. In this talk I'll cover the weird tech (ClojureScript), the motivation, game mechanics, and the future of Rogule.

Synthesis' mission is to create a generation of supercollaborators through games. Learn how we harness the power of open source game dev libraries like Pixi.js and Colyseus to build high quality multiplayer games that kids enjoy.

3d content creation tools don't have to be complex- sometimes what you need is a special-purpose tool that solves a specific problem and gives you exactly the model you need. Building such tools using modern web technologies is easier than you think. In this talk, we'll walk through the basics of writing a custom web-based tool that can export 3d models.

Making casual games has become easier than ever but setting up multiplayer still requires you to write network code, deal with websockets, load-balancing servers, co-locating servers and whatnot. 
I am building Playroom to solve this, a high-performance sync that handles the networking and the room management so you can focus on building your game.

In this talk, I will share my experiences with using machine learning to identify cheaters in multiplayer games. We will also discuss the potential of machine learning in game development.

In this session, we will explore the latest major release of Babylon.js that has brought significant advancements to web-based game development.
We will look into the new major features that were added to Babylon.js 6.0,  including fluid rendering and texture decals, which elevate visual fidelity to new heights, performance priority mode, accessibility support for 3D scenes, and the integration of the world-class Havok physics engine into the engine, unlocking unparalleled realism in web-based games.
We will also have a sneak peek into our plans for the next major version, as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in 3D web experiences.

This talk will cover designing, playtesting, and iteration. After listening to this talk you'll find out about how to prepare for and run your playtest, how to analyze the results and further iterate on your games, and I'll tell you about my personal experience regarding the topic, which I have gained while working on CIDA's boardgame.

In the realm of game development, the right architecture and design patterns can make all the difference. This session delves into the world of game development patterns and architectures in JavaScript, offering a comprehensive exploration of the techniques and strategies used to create engaging and well-structured games.

In this presentation, I'll explore the transition from WebGL to WebGPU, demonstrating how these changes affect game development. The talk will include practical examples and code snippets to illustrate key differences and their implications on performance and efficiency.

Explore the impact of social features on game success and learn how to integrate them swiftly with Nakama OSS game server. This session will guide you through code examples, revealing how to enhance your game’s social capabilities. Discover a faster, simpler way to supercharge your game development journey and unleash your game’s social potential with Nakama!

Having worked for 7 years on popular .io games like Krunker.io, Diep.io, and Ev.io, I've seen the multiplayer web game market grow and evolve on the bleeding edge of web tech over the years.

In this talk, I will share my experience in game development using ReactJS/CSS. We will explore how to make the most out of the component management provided by this library, along with the capabilities of CSS for creating an appealing user interface. Additionally, we will uncover how to leverage the React Three Fiber library to create games with a 3D experience.

How better to learn about the capabilities of a technology than to do something it was expressly not designed for? What can we learn about the square peg as we mercilessly shove it into the triangular hole? In an attempt to rebuild Age of Empires 2 using React we'll learn about the limitations and possibilities of the tool we use everyday.

React is strong at UI development but lags with actual game development. Game engines are great for that but bad at UI. How to combine both?

The open interoperable metaverse and why Webaverse believe Web is the best medium for it. How this will give rise to game development / 3D on the web.

We have never had so many great options for game engines and frameworks. Sometimes though, too many options can be paralyzing. In this talk we are going to discuss the various available game engines and development frameworks for HTML game development and hopefully help you select the one that is right for you.

Unity can build games to run in a web browser using tools like Emscripten, Web Assembly, and WebGL. It provides integration with the browser, using browser APIs to simulate native APIs. Sometimes it is useful to interface with the browser in ways that Unity does not natively provide support for. In this talk, I will discuss how Unity builds games for the web, and how to extend Unity using Javascript to enable support for features not otherwise provided.

On the web, games are not pre-installed, but downloaded at the moment of play. Therefore the loading experience is a key part of your game’s success. During this talk Poki’s Kasper Mol will introduce you to the Conversion to Play concept, and what methods are available to nail this.

With the ever growing opportunities for creating online multiplayer games for different platforms, and many reachable and easy to use open-source tools, it has become much more convenient for developers to create exciting multiplayer games. In this talk, Sahar will create a simple multiplayer game to demonstrate it and talk about the issues she faced when creating her own games.

So you want to be an indie game developer? You probably have an idea of what indie game development is like. My job is to assure you that you are wrong. I'm going to talk about misconceptions around indie game development and all you need to know before getting into it.

One of the great strengths of gaming on the web is how easily accessible it can be. However, this key advantage is often negated large assets and long load times, especially on slow mobile connections. In this talk, Alex Hawker from Google’s GameSnacks will illustrate how they are tackling this problem and some key learnings the team found while optimizing third party games and designing their own ultra-lightweight game engine.

By interacting with the Colyseus community over the past few years, some fundamental questions (not necessarily connected with the framework) seem to appear time and time again when developers start to build their own multiplayer games. This talk is going to cover some of these questions, as well as the most common scenarios and techniques you can start using today when building your own multiplayer game.

One of the major new features WebGPU introduces is compute shaders. I'll cover the basics of how they work and go through some applications that weren't possible before on the web. Examples include Unreal Engine 5's compute-based rendering techniques, and complex particle simulations.

Vultr's Walt Ribeiro takes users through steps to easily launch game servers with Vultr using their One-Click Marketplace across more than 20 locations.
In this talk, Walt will demonstrate how to configure your account, how to browse and deploy from Vultr Marketplace, and how to stand up a basic Minecraft server using Bash on Ubuntu. Other flagship products and tools developers love will be highlighted along the way!

An Art Directors’ perspective on the creation of online slots.

This session explores common performance and memory issues that arise in WebGL builds produced using the Unity game engine. Examine how to identify, troubleshoot and avoid pitfalls that may lead to out-of-memory errors. Learn how to reduce game instability and improve game performance in WebGL builds.

This talk will go briefly about the history of how Mojang Studios decided to use web standards and React to build the new UI stack for Minecraft (Bedrock Edition), the challenges we faced around performance and how we landed on a solution that allowed us to continue to write declarative UI, but without the virtual DOM.

To show how we can make rich, interactive experiences, for instance games, with React semantics and shareable components, and what that means for traditional constructs, like the render-loop.

This talk is going to be about react-three-fiber. We'll make a mini game together. We'll see how even beginners can make it through all the heavy boilerplate and math without losing their minds, and then translate it to anything, be it a game or a website with some interesting visuals and effects.

JS awsomeness beyond webpages. First we'll write a cool 2D game (in Javascript) - and then - write AI code (in Javascript!) that will be able to win this game for us. Oh, what a time to be alive!

A look into Pixi.js coolest and lesser known features.
Including treats such as:
- Meshes
- Spine Animation
- Custom filters
- Render Textures and Image exporting
Showing example how it can make working with WebGL super easy and give your content that edge it needs to stand out!