The Game Developer Meetup CHCH - October

Welcome to the October Game Developers Meetup!

Come along and join us to chat game dev, with our special guest speaker, Keegan Gibson from Digital Confectioners, creators of Depth and Last Tide!

Don't forget to check us out at:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CHCHGameDev
Facebook: https://fb.me/CHCHGameDev
Discord: https://discord.gg/68YqqFZ

And help support the meetup on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/CHCHGameDev

6:15 PM - KICK OFF
Welcome to the Christchurch Game Developers Meetup with news from around New Zealand.

6:30 PM - Optimising for the hundreds.
Last Tide is an underwater battle royale. Face ferocious Megalodons, Great Whites and more! Chum-grenade your enemies so sharks attack them! Use unique aquatic equipment, climb the leaderboards, and experience underwater freedom of movement!

Last Tide is a 100 player battle royale game with a 4.5KM by 4.5KM map made in Unreal Engine 4, but actually having a game run with 100 people in it is a server resource nightmare.

In this talk learn how the team identified and overcame performance problems with Game Servers in Physics, General CPU Bottlenecks and Memory Constraints.

While this talk is focused around Unreal and Programming, the takeaways should be applicable to any engine, and hopefully interesting enough for artists too.

Keegan Gibson is a games programmer who has been working in the games industry for the past 8 years, with a passion for clean code and Game AI. He has worked on everything from mobile games through to AAA titles. Keegan is also active in the local Christchurch gamedev scene, including helping organise this meetup (as you may have noticed).

Check out Digital Confectioners:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/DigitalConfectioners
Last Tide: https://lasttide.com/
Website: https://www.digitalconfectioners.com
Twitter: @PlayLastTide - https://twitter.com/PlayLastTide

7:30 PM - Pizza and Networking
Bring along your games to show and get feedback!

A HUGE Thank You to our Patreon supporters for making the meetups possible.

Our Corporate Sponsors:
University of Canterbury
Check out their Bachelor Of Product Design, Applied Immersive Game Design - http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/schools/school-of-product-design/

CerebralFix
Christchurch Based Game Development specialising in work for hire from some amazing companies.
https://cerebralfix.com/

Our Individual Sponsor:
Jeremy Craig

And our Patreon Sponsors:
Jen Huei Lee
Leith Caldwell
Hannah Mackintosh
Maxwell Clarke

You are Amazing!