India Game Developer Summit 2010

Open Source for Game DevelopmentGreener Bottom lines with a Freer World

Yadu Rajiv, Kinshuk Sunil

27/02/10

Who Am I??

• Wish I knew the Answer!• UI/UX Specialist• Indie Game Developer• Founder, Indie GameDev India

@yadurajiv, @ingdinhttp://indiegamedev.in

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What are we gonna learn today?

• Game Development ? What’s That!• What is Open Source?• Why in the world is Open Source relevant for GameDev• Can Open Source be used for GameDev?• What are these shiny things?• The wild things called questions• Point of relief - conclusion

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Honestly, that’s being way too optimistic, but lets try

GAME DEVELOPMENT? WHATS THAT!

Aren’t we guys inside a game developer summit?

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WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE?Baah! You had to ask!!!

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6Source: Open Source Open World – Focus.com - http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/open-source-open-world/

7Source: Open Source Open World – Focus.com - http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/open-source-open-world/

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No discriminations/restrictions against:Persons, groups, fields of endeavours, other softwares, technology

Why in the world is Open Source Relevant to Game Development?

Sugar spice and everything nice!!?

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Can Open Source be used for Game Development?Maybe I should just skip this slide ^_^

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What are these shiny things?

Awesomely shiny things are so awesome!

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OGRE 3D vs. Gamebryo

I can see the battle now, pixels flying all over the place

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OpenAL vs. Fmod

No fights here; a million points for guessing why. Of course the points don’t matter :D

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Bullet vs. PhysX

Ragdoll kungfu ftw!! ^_^

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Blender vs. Maya

I can flex moar polys than j00!! /me at this point the subtitles don’t matter anymore :P

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Raknet vs. Quazal Net-Z

Ping.. Pong.. >.<

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Point of reliefConclusion?

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Those wild things called questions!

/me gets ready

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Talk to us!! =^_^=Kinshuk Sunil - @kinshuksunil - kinshuksunil@gmail.com

Yadu Rajiv - @yadurajiv - yadurajiv@gmail.com

Indie Gamedev India - @ingdin - faceboobk.com/ingdin

Indiegamedev.in

OSSCube - @osscube - osscube.com

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