JetBrains GameDev Days 2024

Do you work on game development in Unreal Engine? Are you looking for a way to boost your game development productivity?

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how JetBrains Rider and TeamCity enhance Unreal Engine game development. Discover Rider’s innovative IDE features, including its built-in AI Assistant, that streamline Unreal project changes. Then, see TeamCity’s role in testing and building changes to an Unreal project via a dynamic CI/CD build pipeline based on a BuildGraph script.

Find out how we rebuilt the developer experience at Playrix for different teams, why you should do it, how to measure the success, and how not to ruin the whole process.

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This talk will take the shape of a live demonstration, showcasing how to use the Kotlin programming language as well as the JVM ecosystem alongside the Godot game engine.

It will be split into three parts:

• How to build and run Kotlin code within Godot.
• How to use Kotlin idiomatic language features in your game.
• How to make game development easier using the wide range of libraries in the JVM ecosystem.

The demonstration will make use of the following project:

https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-kotlin-jvm

C# is a very popular language, and there are a lot of C# developers out there. There is a constant desire for C# skills to be transferable across game engines, and this is especially true given the recent events surrounding Unity and the increasing popularity of alternative engines targeting the indie dev market.

But how transferable are C# skills from engine to engine? How do you evaluate the viability of the C# support on an engine you don't know? What do AOT, JIT, and Mono mean? If you want to embed C# in your engine, how do you do that?

This talk will answer all these questions and more, covering what you need to know about C# and the .NET ecosystem in the game industry, clarifying the jargon, going over existing engine support, explaining platform constraints and portability, and providing practical examples of how to embed C# in a game engine, as well as providing relevant online resources.

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Understanding game engines is one of the core competencies of video game development, and what better way to understand how a game engine works than creating one yourself? C# is an incredibly versatile language with an expansive network of libraries allowing you to develop each piece of your engine, backed by professionally developed and commonly used tools from around the world. Rider provides hundreds of debugging tools that allow you to quickly visualize memory usage, code execution patterns, and hot spots in your code, allowing quick optimization of code that is critical to game engines as a whole.

The speaker developed a Pokemon-like game engine from scratch using SDL2 and C# with Rider as the primary game development engine. This engine is highly optimized in its current state and has two completely custom programming languages in it, which have language servers written for Rider so that I can quickly and easily edit my entire project with completion and syntax highlighting in Rider.

This session will cover the importance of optimization in game engines, the concepts behind size compression and custom compilation tools, measuring memory usage, step-by-step code execution, and the value of Rider in the development of my game engine. Whether you’re building a custom engine or working on existing platforms, the aim of this session is to demonstrate how you can quickly and easily leverage these tools in your own development of video games.

This talk will give an overview of Unity's Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) and the common problems in game development these tools solve. This talk will also demonstrate some interesting use cases of data-oriented design in Unity and some of the upcoming integrations in the Unity engine.