Name: UnityNYC at Microsoft - We're BACK!
Start: 2023-03-07T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-03-07T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Microsoft

We are BACK!

Want to give a talk or present something? [Apply here](https://forms.gle/Yh8f7tTQ9qHWKBzB8) or in the UnityNYC discord. For our first event back, we are going to have some talks. We will update this page with presenters as we decide on them.

Extra thanks to Microsoft Reactor in Times Square for graciously letting us use their venue again.
[Note: Make sure your name is set to your real name by the end of March 2nd so we can give it to security]

*About This Session*
This is a back to basics event, and **we have 3 talks!** Come, network, and see what other people around you are making.

The 3 Cs Toolkit: Make Any Video Game Character Come to Life in Unity
by **Jason Tu** \- Senior Software Engineer
This talk is a great way to get up and running. Jason gives you all the information you need to jumpstart your game dev process. Included are many tips that will get you past typical hurdles like “But I can’t model or animate. What can I do?”, explaining "How to think like a cinematographer with Cinemachine", and more.

How to use Large Scale Environments
by **Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D.** \- Founder of Geopipe
Large-scale environments, including large-scale real-world environments, are rapidly becoming more important to games, simulations, and experiences, including for indie developers. Geopipe cofounder Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. will discuss Unity tools to support large environments, including new libraries from Unity and others. He'll also show off a few indie creators' latest work with Geopipe's free Unity-ready New York City digital twin.

How to successfully release a game
by **Erik "ekolimits" Kovac** \- Partner and Head of Marketing at TILT Games
Using his experience as a Twitch Partnered Influencer and now Head of Marketing at an Indie Game Label, Erik spends his time designing games to reach success in today's market. He will show us the 3 core pillars to a successful launch on Steam: EVENTS, INFLUENCERS, and COMMUNITY.

*About UnityNYC*
This meetup aims to meet the needs of Unity users in the NYC area - including creators, developers, artists, designers, musicians and others - by providing high-quality networking as well as educational and professional resources to both amateurs and professionals alike.

Eric Ma

Sten U.

Unity Technologies

Sam Levine

[UnityNYC] Official New York Unity User Group

Unity User Group Network

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Mikey of Legend

RLab

Makers of Rider, a great Unity IDE alternative, and they give us keys!

JetBrains

Bose

An Ad Monetization platform for mobile/eSports/XR, sponsoring pizza!

AdInMo

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Mobile Development

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Computer Programming

Independent Game Development

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