On 26th of November, I got a chance to go to a tech meetup organised by Google at the King office on the topic : “How we slashed the time and still develop awesome games?” This meetup was about a new public game engine Defold released by King. The main aim of King was to make the developers aware of this new engine and demonstrate some cool features of this gaming engine.
King is the company that created candy crush and recently got acquired by Activision for $5.9 billion. This information was my main motivation to go to the meetup and the get the chance to see the King office.
I would first start with the King office. Being a gaming company the office of King was really cool from all standards. The whole office seemed like a digital playground with slides, swings and great environment. Here is an image of their lobby that looks like an amusement park.
As for the meetup, it was highly technical. The participation was primarily from game developers. 2 of King’s in house developers of the gaming engine presented the “cool” features of their new gaming engine – Defold. The crowd participation was also good and there was a lively discussion on the advantage of this gaming engine over conventional and more more accepted ones like Unity. The overall crowd was filled with industry professionals with a very few participation from the students (5-6). For me as a designer, it was really cool to see how the design philosophy changes for the developer as they were more specific about the crash reports, debugging, etc.
Key Take Away
These meetups are great way for the companies to showcase their new technology to the specific target crowd. At the same time it is a good opportunity for the people interested in this topic to get information from the developers of the technology.
However for me it was the experience of going to the King’s office, getting a chance to see the technical side of a game development company and lastly free beers and wraps. 😉
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