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Scripting Enhancements in Unity in 2018 (or, its Compilers All the Way Down)
Featuring Lotte May
In the past, being a .net developer in Unity has been weird. Its always been years behind! But that began to change in the 2017 development cycle and seriously ramped up in 2018.
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VR for Google Cardboard in Unity: challenges and opportunities
Featuring Quentin Le Guennec
Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming more and more popular as big companies are investing a lot of time and money to make it a reality. Not only does the hardware becomes good enough for VR but so do the tools to build VR apps.
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No Metrics, No Marketing for Digital Start-ups
Featuring Edward Relf
No Metrics, No Marketing for Digital Start-ups” - a lean marketing methodology for disruptive digital start-ups. Ed will run through his framework for building a successful product development & marketing driven approach using real-world examples and lessons from Laundrapp.
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Improving Appstore Rank: Best Practices (& Tactics to Avoid)
Featuring Peter Heinrich
How far would you go to make your app successful? Everyone has a strategy, and as an app publisher, Amazon has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hear the tactics that will get you banned or blacklisted, along with best practices for actually achieving the results you want: more downloads,...
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5 Best Practices of Top-Earning Mobile Apps
Featuring Mike Hines
Amazon is famously metrics-driven and obsessed with customer satisfaction. In its role as a mobile app publisher, it is perfectly positioned to analyze and interpret millions of mobile downloads and in-app purchases, leading to some surprising and intriguing insights into mobile app engagement...
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Top 5 Tips for Porting Unity Games to Fire Devices
Featuring Jesse Freeman
In this talk we'll cover the five main tips you'll want to know when porting a Unity game over to Fire TV, Fire Tablet and Fire phone. Through code examples we'll demo how to support multiple resolutions for pixel perfect Orthographic and Perspective Cameras, abstracting player input...
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Understanding Your Power-Users (and Fostering More)
Featuring Peter Heinrich
A relatively small group—tiny, really—of dedicated customers often generates an unexpectedly large percentage of total revenue for a mobile app or game. Who are the members of this group, and how can you better engage them? More importantly, how do you encourage others to join the ranks of these...
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Picking the Right Tool for the Job: HTML5 vs Unity
Featuring Jesse Freeman
Game developers have lots of options when it comes to picking platforms and frameworks to build their games with. If you are looking to build true cross platform games there are two great options, HTML5 and Unity, but choosing which one to start with can be difficult. In this talk we will discuss...
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Two New Ways to Monetize – Underground and Merch
Featuring Paul Cutsinger
The average developer only monetizes 2-3% of their customers. What if you could monetize 100% of them? In this session you’ll learn about: 1) Amazon Underground where customers get premium apps and in-app items for free and developers get paid for all of the minutes used, and 2) Merch by Amazon a...
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Responsive Game Design
Featuring Jesse Freeman
Gone are the days where you can make a game and publish it to a single platform expecting a sure fire success. The best way to solve this problem is something I call “responsive game design” based on the same principles that work so well in responsive design for web apps. This framework includes...
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An introduction to using the Alexa Skills Kit and Amazon Web Services to Build Voice Driven Experiences
Featuring Paul Cutsinger
Come learn firsthand how to build for Amazon Echo and Amazon Voice Service enabled devices using the Alexa Skills Kit and Amazon Web Services. This session will walk through using Amazon Echo and how to build your first Alexa Skill using both AWS Lamda and AWS Beanstalk. We'll also take a...
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Bringing Apps and Games to the Living Room
Featuring Jesse Freeman
In this session, we cover what's needed to bring your Android app or game to Fire TV. We walk you through controller support for a game scenario (buttons and analog sticks), controller support for UI (selection, moving between menu items, invoking the keyboard), and how to account for the...
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An Overview of the Amazon Devices and Services for Mobile Developers
Featuring Iain Gavin
We will start the day off with an overview of Amazon's current developer ecosystem. Learn how you can take advantage of Amazon’s Mobile App SDK, Amazon's Appstore and the new line of consumer Fire devices like Alexa, Echo, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick and Fire tablets, as well as...
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Alexa, Ask Skyscanner about Flights from London to…
Featuring David Low
Alexa, Ask Skyscanner about Flights from London to… Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site offering a comprehensive and free flight search service as well as online comparisons for hotels and car hire. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Skyscanner has been in the travel business for over 10...
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Building Curzon Home Cinema for Fire TV
Featuring Bill Scott and Philip Mordecai
How can a cinema chain deliver a big screen experience in a tiny London flat? Curzon, an 80-year old British independent cinema chain and content distribution group with its roots in London, will share their approach. Looking to engage customers outside its theatre locations, they launched Curzon...
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Cheaper, Faster, Easier, Better: Building Mobile Apps with Parse
Featuring Ali Parr
Learn how to focus on creating a great user experience and forget complex infrastructure. Instantly add a powerful core, push notifications, and analytics to your app with Parse. With native SDKs for Android, iOS, JavaScript, Unity, and more, Parse has an SDK for everyone.
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Augmented Reality SDK Qualcomm
Featuring Dominic Binks
Augmented Reality development in Unity
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Make it fun
3D game creation for mobile devices and would be an introduction on how you can use Unity to create game content for Android.
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