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Cobus Bernard: Building a game with Unity and publishing to Steam

Jwho303Jwho303
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Hey guys, a friend send me a link to this meet up and I didnt see it mentioned on the forums.
http://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-SPIN/events/159155602/?a=cr1_grp&rv=cr1&_af_eid=159155602&_af=event

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
6:15 PM
3rd Floor, Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
66 - 68 Albert Road, Woodstock Exchange, Cape Town
Building a game with Unity and publishing to Steam: going from manual uploads over ADSL to fully automated Jenkins deployments from Amazon EC2.

Developing a game is fun, but how do you manage a 26GB repository for a distributed team from an office with a normal ADSL line? How much fun is uploading the 3.5GB binaries on a Friday when the line keeps dropping? In this talk, I will take you through the evolution of this process to the single-click deployment from the cloud that takes 10 minutes. And show you what I would change for the next round.

About the Speaker

Cobus has been addicted to computers since his first game: Sopwith on the Sperry XT. Since then he has been tinkering with them non-stop. Career-wise he has developed for Linux, Mac,Windows and mobile using Java, C#, Javascript and Xamarin. After hours he keeps busy developing games, mobile pet-projects and dabbling with NodeJS and Clojure.
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Comments

  • dislekciadislekcia
    ... Wat?

    Who's releasing stuff to Steam with that sort of repository size and isn't a regular member here? Is anyone able to go to this and try to do a community introduction? (Is it maybe someone that was working on that horror game DS -> PC port?)
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  • LexAquilliaLexAquillia
    I'll try and go
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  • ElyaradineElyaradine
    ...since his first game: Sopwith on the Sperry XT.
    That seems like the obligatory "back in my day, game dev was like this" that I regularly see in game programmer bios. :D
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  • AngryMooseAngryMoose
    dislekcia said:
    (Is it maybe someone that was working on that horror game DS -> PC port?)
    Based on his LinkedIn profile, he was (is?) involved with that :)

  • LexAquilliaLexAquillia
    Not going to be able to go tonight, do we have any other volunteers?
  • Jwho303Jwho303
    Im probably going so Ill send and invite :) would be nice if he could give the same talk next week :D
  • dislekciadislekcia
    Is there any more info about this? Did anyone get to talk to Cobus?
  • Jwho303Jwho303
    Howdy! Yup, it was a pretty cool technical talk of about 35mins. He has attended a few of the meet ups and would like to give the same talk if we wanted. I can get his number from a friend, should we ask him to give his talk for the April meet up?
  • dislekciadislekcia
    I'd be keen! Although we might have a full program already - let's see what everyone votes for on the event thread when it goes up.
  • mindlessdemonmindlessdemon
    Hey guys, I can do the chat with a more technical how-you-do-this at one of the monthly Cape Town meetups? I was a bit swamped that month, didn't even think of posting here regarding the talk. Lemme know if anyone is keen? Cobus
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