FGS 2011: The Making of Snowfort, by Joju Games
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This document discusses the development of the snowball fighting game Snowfort on a small budget. It was created as a simpler real-time strategy game than popular titles like StarCraft. The development team used Skype for meetings and Google Docs for collaboration. Key challenges included creating full character customization with many on-screen assets and animations, along with online multiplayer and artificial intelligence for different game modes. Mochi Media's services were integrated for social sharing, analytics and monetization to help spread the game.
FGS 2011: The Making of Snowfort, by Joju Games
- 1. Making a Single Player, Social Game, and Multiplayer Game on a Shoestring Budget. The Making of Juan Gril, Studio Manager Pablo Testa, Technical Director
- 2. WHAT ’ S SNOWFORT? GAME MODES Real-time strategy game, based on snowball fights. Single Player Campaign Async play Multiplayer
- 3. SNOWFORT GENESIS PARTNERSHIP WITH MOCHI MEDIA We suck at Starcraft, so we wanted to make an RTS that anyone can play. We applied to the GAME Development Fund, and we got in!
- 5. COMMUNICATION Skype -Meetings -Screen Sharing -Video Google Docs -GDD -Timelines -Bug Track SVN
- 6. SNOWFORT CHALLENGES Full outfit customization. Dozens of assets and animations on screen. Leaderboards AI for single player campaign and async mode Online Multiplayer.
- 7. CHARACTER SKINNING Head Outfit 2 colors per outfit OUTFIT COMPOSITION
- 8. FINAL COMPOSITION HEAD COMPOSITION
- 9. Brainstorming Implement Playtest Tweaking Loop until polished AI
- 10. AI SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN Wait Scout Shield Catch Stances
- 11. AI ASYNC BATTLE Rush Attack Defense Split Attack Modes Squads
- 12. PLAYERIO INTEGRATION Simple integration Server in C# Free to try Easy to scale Why?
- 13. ASYNC GAME MATCH MAKING -BigDB
- 15. Automatic Screen Localization localizeScreen (Movie Clip) LOCALIZATION
- 16. Ads Social Virality -postToStream(..) Game Events -trackEvent(...) Game Items -showItem(...) MOCHI INTEGRATION
- 17. QUESTIONS?
- 18. THANKS!