SF Game Development feat: Epic Games, GS2, Magic Circle Studio

SF Game Development is excited to announce another in-person Meetup featuring Epic Games, Game Server Services, and Magic Circle Studio on Tuesday, February 28th at the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco. Food and drink will be sponsored by GS2.io, arrive early for some yummy pizza and our networking session starting at 5:30pm. Speakers will go on stage at 7:00pm. This event is open to the public and is a professional networking event for game developers, artists, students, indies, or really anyone interested in game development.

SPEAKERS:

Samuel Bass

Evangelist, Epic Games

20 Minute Talk

Unreal Engine's UE Ecosystem and Feature Overview

In this talk, learn from Unreal Engine expert Samuel Bass, who works as a Developer Evangelist at Epic Games, on the new improvements to the UE Ecosystem in version 5.1. Samuel will be covering topics around tooling, scripting, workflow-oriented StateTrees, Enhanced Input, and more. Additionally, Samuel will walk through a live demo including a geometry script and will discuss some of the new features mentioned above in Unreal Engine. Even if you've never used Unreal Engine before, this talk is one you won't want to miss and will be easy enough to understand even for a beginner!

Kazutomo Niwa

CEO, GS2.io

(Live Translated by Don Mesa)

20 Minute Talk

How to launch a successful game & keep engagement high in JAPAC

In this talk, learn from Japanese gaming expert Kazutomo Niwa, CEO of Game Server Services, on how to build a live-service game in the Japan and Asia regions. Kazutomo Niwa is a former software engineer at Nintendo Company Limited and Sega, and left in 2016 to found GS2.io. Live-service games may seem like a lot of work with little reward, but in Japan and Asia, the top ten games on app stores are live-service-based. The “game beyond the game”, or metagame experience plays a critical role in the success of live-service games. Kazutomo will share methods for building high player engagement through effective metagame development and introduce GS2 (Game Server Services), which makes metagame development simple & easy to integrate for developers. This talk will be live translated by Don Mesa, and Kazutomo Niwa will be flying out to this Meetup to share his knowledge about foreign gaming markets with our community

Avi Romanoff

Founder/CEO Magic Circle Studio

20 Min Talk

From TikTok virality to $1M pre-seed, the story of Magic Circle

In this talk, learn from the Founder/CEO of Magic Circle, Avi Romanoff, on how his TikTok account turned his game Truffle Hogs into a fully VC backed indie game studio. With almost a quarter of a million followers on TikTok, Truffle Hogs is taking over iOS and Android by storm. Learn about Avi's marketing strategies from posting his game development progress on TikTok, to growing a Discord community where kids could contribute features that Avi would later implement into the game. Did I mention, they are hiring?

See you all there!

Thank you everyone for RSVPing for our SF Game Development event. We can't wait to see everyone there. Make sure to arrive at 5:30pm for some FREE food and drink! You MUST RSVP on Meetup to secure your spot. See everyone at the Microsoft Reactor on Tuesday, February 28th 2023 from 5:30-9:00pm.

Join our Discord and learn more about our Meetup Group here: https://sfgamedevelopment.com

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