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4-Week to Making Your First Game, No Coding!

Brandon is teaching a 4-week beginner class on making games on Skillshare, starting next month! We’ve worked with Skillshare in designing a course that’s easy to digest, and worked with Unity and Hutong Games in providing top students with awesome free tools. If you have been playing games and been on the sideline waiting to dive into game development, this is a great first step!

Start Making Games!

What do you do when you have a great idea for a game but no programming background? Before you give up, let me introduce you to the world of indie game development. With the technology and tools available today, you can start creating the game you’ve always wanted to make as soon as, well, today!

Who is This Class for?

This class is for beginners with no prior game development or programming experience. If you know how to code in Javascript, C#, Object-C, Basic, this may be too basic for you.

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What You Will Need

Put aside 7-10 hours a week for 4 weeks as we dive into the process of game development.
A modern PC / Mac with 3D graphic compatibility (if you bought your computer in the past 5 years, it should be good enough.)
Download and install the Unity3D game engine http://www.unity3d.com/. We will be using Unity 3D for this class. Don’t worry about the seemingly complicated interface. We will go over it in the class – piece of cake!
Students will be provided a special version of popular Unity 3D Tool – PlayMaker! This is the tool that enables us to create games without writing codes.

What You Will Create

Together with the class, we will re-create two gaming classics to get you started with game development – Breakout and Doodle Jump! Feedback will be provided throughout the course and be sure to attend the weekly Office Hour on Google Hangout for Q&A. We will build these two games for computers – PCs and Macs, and towards the end of the course we will discuss what to do if you want to build games for mobile, tablets, browsers, and/or consoles.

Project Award

Top student to receive a Unity 4 Pro license ($1500)
Top 3 students to receive a PlayMaker commercial license ($95)

RSVP: http://skl.sh/SwBox6

Single Player Mini-Games

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We’ve gotten lots of feedback during PAX and one that really stood out was the desire to have a single player mode outside of the competitive multiplayer game.

So we started pumping out some single player goodies on the side while working on the main multiplayer game! :D

Play the games here: WorldOfMyGiants.com

(warning: expect bugs! :P)

Enjoy!!

Photos from the PAX Show Floor (PAX Prime 2012, Seattle)

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PAX! Last week was a big one – first time ever we showed a playable demo of My Giants to people outside of the team – better yet, we did it at PAX. With all the bugs and crashes and network problems, we managed to get the 2-on-2 game up-and-running and had a blast playing with everyone who came to our booth – kids and adults alike!

Check out some photos below, and with any luck, we’ll be at the next PAX again! :D

My Giants PAX 2012 Trailer

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….And we’re off to PAX 2012.

See you there :)

Posters for PAX, Printed! :)

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A nice local printing shop (Perfect Copy & Print) helped me got these nice posters printed quickly today. Awesome service – answered all my beginner questions about printing, sizing…etc. Nothing beats a nice local experience!

Without further ado, here are the posters you’ll see at our PAX Booth! Don’t forget we are at booth #6407! :D

PAX 2012!

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(if your browser doesn’t support flash, go here for the images)

What is PAX?

GAMES! Lots and lots of games. In fact, ALL types of games you can think of – console games, PC games, mobile games, tabletop games, toys, casual games…etc. PAX is a celebration of human lives – an event that asks attendees to answer this all important question – HOW WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR FUN SERVED?

PAX is short for Penny Arcade Expo, an awesome festivals for gamers in Seattle (PAX Prime) during the summer, from Aug 31st – Sep 2nd this year. It was created by the authors of the uber popular Penny Arcade webcomic, because they wanted to a show that gave equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, tabletop gamers, (and now, My Giants players!)

Why are we excited about PAX?

Because we will be there, showing you what we’ve got so far on My Giants! :)

What to expect?

Primarily, Domagoj and Brandon will show a work-in-progress playable demo of My Giants and answer all your burning questions about the game on the exhibition floor. It will be an early demo – rough around the edges (with placeholder art and crashes), but hopefully giving you an idea what the game is about. We will be on the 6th floor (booth number 6407) around the corner to the right from MoJang (of Minecraft’s fame).

So if you are going to PAX 2012, come say hi! We’ll be expecting you and listening to all your feedback on My Giants!

Building a Massively Multiplayer Game with Unity3D

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Marvel Super Hero Squad Online is one of the biggest Unity3D based browser MMO games (if not THE biggest), and we are very excited to have our very own Chad Berry from the Seattle Unity3D User Group, who was one of the key developers on the game to come and talk to us about the journey of creating a multi-player of massive scale with Unity!

Time: Wednesday, August 29, 2012. 7:00 PM
Location: The Easy – 511 Boren Ave N. Suite B, Seattle, WA
RSVP Here: http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Unity3D/events/69705262/

My Giants at Seattle Indies Expo!

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Where were we last Sunday? Seattle Indies Expo 2! First time people outside of Studio Pepwuper put their hands on My Giants. Talk about a nerve wracking experience! Good thing is, we survived to show you the pictures! :D

(if photos are loading a bit slow for you, try our photo album on Google+ : My Giants at SIX)

Make Games with This!

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We love making games, and I bet a lot of you want to make games yourselves too! So we’ve put together this eBook to introduce the tools we use, from crafting a virtual world, creating interactions, all the way to collaboration and community building. With these awesome tools, you don’t have any more excuse to not try your hands on making some magic.

Simply join us and become an Awesome Pepwuperer below and we’ll send this over to you right away!

Oh! To Be Immortalized

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People can spend $100s on a myriad of age deifying cosmetics or spend all of their adult life on a search for the Fountain of Youth and here we are giving it to you for free! Why? Simply because we love our fans.

You could Live Forever in 3 easy steps (3 for you, quite a few steps for us).

Sign up to our Awesome Pepwuperer List (so we can find you – updates only and no spam!)
One lucky fan will be randomly picked from the Awesome Pepwuperer List
If you are selected, we will contact you to send us your photos in various angles, plus a few questions to help us make an awesome character out of you!
… (wait for us to finish the darn game) …
Live forever in the World of My Giants™!