SF Game Development feat: Sauce Labs, Unity & Discord + Game Demo Stations

SF Game Development is excited to announce a new meetup featuring Sauce Labs, Unity and Discord at DNA Lounge on Tuesday, May 16th 2023. Food will be sponsored by Sauce Labs and drinks are available for purchase at the DNA Lounge bar. All proceeds from drink sales go directly to the venue which helps them keep the lights on, and also helps us to continue to host events in their space. DNA Lounge is over 3,000 sqft and is the largest venue we've ever hosted our events at. With hundreds of developers showing up every month, we've outgrown our previous spaces, so we are excited to host you at our new venue. Speakers will go on stage at 7:00pm. This is an all ages 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.

Speaker Lineup:
Mac Clark, Solutions Engineer at Sauce Labs
Spicy Sauce - The Secret Ingredient to Gaming DevOps
You know what is hot? Saving time and money in making the highest quality video games on the planet. Delivering bug free game titles is a win for your customers, your brand and your all important game ratings. Join Mac Clark as they dive into the Sauce Labs DevOps Toolchain for mobile, pc and console gaming. He will be covering Sauce Labs' Real Device Cloud, supported testing frameworks and CI/CD pipeline synergy needs. Lastly, he will cover how SauceLabs' Backtrace uses crash and error reporting during development and production to provide developers the CI/CD backbone they need.

Shay DeWael, Senior Developer Advocate at Discord
Developing gaming experiences in Discord for your community
In this talk, learn how you can leverage the Discord app store to grow your gaming community. As an indie game developer, growing a user base is one of the most challenging marketing efforts you can undertake. Learn how to use Discord development tools and APIs to create a unique experience for your users, that can help drive sales to your title.

Brent Kawaguchi, Senior Partner Manager, Publisher Ops at Unity
Unity Gaming Services Integrations and Best Practices

Brent brings with him a decade of expertise in the gaming industry in customer success, live operations and product development. He has extensive experience running live mobile games while at Kabam to console games like the NBA 2K franchise at 2K. Now he uses his vast industry expertise to help other developers optimize their live games and user experience.

In this talk, learn how to integrate Unity Gaming Services into your gaming application to take advantage of monetization and user adoption goals. Learn how to create dashboards and setup live ops tools from Unity to help you monitor the health of your video game.

Game Demo Stations
Card Craft is a Triple Triad-inspired roguelike deckbuilder where you battle cards on a grid. Outwit your opponents as you make difficult choices about how to traverse the map, respond to quests, and most of all improve your deck.

Cornhole RPG is a real cornhole game that you'll have an opportunity to play at the venue.

NECTARMANCER tells the story of Aisa, the conscripted Nectarmancer for The Throne in this visually stunning action platformer and "gardenvania" by The Beauty Cult.

Hex Puzzler Saga is a rouge-like puzzle game. Help your kingdom survive crises, and grow your wealth through managing your ruler's powers and solving hex puzzles.

Real of the Fallen a VR game meets old school FPS. Assume the role of a resurrected warrior in another dimension where a once-flourishing civilization was eradicated by a sinister interdimensional being. Blast, bludgeon, jump, and climb your way through multiple levels. Combines the best elements of VR and classic shooters.

Please Be Kind to the Chickens is a sokoban puzzler about bending chickens to your will.

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! You MUST RSVP on Meetup or Eventbrite to secure your spot. See everyone at DNA Lounge on Tuesday, May 16th 2023 from 5:30-9:00pm.