.Net Cambridge - Sept 2023

Back in-person for a.Net focused talk.

Speaker: Shaun Lawrence. Building games in .NET MAUI

Summary: Have you always had that great idea for a game but never had the opportunity to build it? Join me in getting know a new cross-platform game engine (Orbit) that aims to make this task easy.

I want to show you how it combines the power of .NET MAUI graphics to obtain the key gaming concepts and then still utilise the underlying framework to make it all still feel familiar.

I will walk you through: * what a game is and how it differs from typical business applications * how to achieve common tasks such as rendering objects and collision detection * how to optimise with a few simple rules * how to have fun

All of the above will be through the use of a working example game as part of the game engine.

.NET MAUI is a hot topic, with .NET 8.0 landing in November 2023 there is a belief that the framework is finally going to be production ready. So let’s go and build that game idea together!

About Shaun: Shaun is an avid gamer, learner and experimenter, these combined with a profession in software development make for some really fun journeys. He gets more than excited when others find interest in what he does and has made it his mission to share his learnings and result of the experiments with anyone that will listen.

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If you'd like to share a topic that you're working on, or plan to work on over the next few months, please let us know!

The event will be held at The Bradfield Centre, on Cambridge Science Park (a really great place to meet). There is car parking in the visitor spaces at the centre.

The meetup starts at 6pm, with the introductions at 6:05pm in the auditorium. We'll finish up with pizza, drinks and chat.