The Future of Connected Games: Unity and Google Cloud
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The document discusses the significance of connected games, highlighting their engagement and success metrics across platforms like Steam, Twitch, and Google Play. It outlines various layers of multiplayer technology, challenges in game management like community interaction and latency, and offers insights on leveraging Google Cloud for scalable game development. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of machine learning in enhancing gameplay experiences and the collaboration between Google and Unity for game development solutions.
The Future of Connected Games: Unity and Google Cloud
- 1. The Future of Connected Games: Unity and Google Cloud Micah Baker Product Manager Google Cloud Brandi House Product Manager Unity
- 3. of the top played Steam games are connected games Most Played of the top watched Twitch games are connected games Most Watched of the top grossing Google Play apps are connected games Most Rev Gen Connected Games are the Most Successful 87% 90% 90%
- 4. “Connectedness” ⬆ = Engagement (Content, Gameplay) ⬆ = Success (Retention, Monetization) ⬆ Connected Games are the Most Successful
- 5. Connected Games “Levels” Incentives/Rewards Competition/Cooperation People Interaction Game State Mgmt L1 L2 Real-time MP Tech L3 L4 Community vs Toxicity Persistent World Tech “Dynamic Single Player” “Turn-based Multiplayer” “Real-Time Multiplayer” “Persistent Game Spaces”
- 6. Retention: Players peek through the door, but they rarely step inside. L1: Dynamic Single Player
- 7. Keep your eye on the prize... Incentives
- 8. Can’t stop. There’s another cat just above me. Competition
- 9. Cooperation With our powers combined...
- 10. See L1 + People Interactions Async Multiplayer Tech Cheat Detection / Prevention L2: Turn-based Multiplayer
- 11. Humans are messy…. People Interactions and sometimes need help communicating.
- 13. Cheat Detection / Prevention Detect: Prevent: What are you doing...
- 14. See L1+L2 ++ Real-Time Multiplayer Tech Toxicity vs Community L3: Real-Time Multiplayer The-Cat-House - DeviantArt
- 15. Real-time Multiplayer Tech The Co-operatives
- 17. Community vs Toxicity Some say it’s like herding cats... Chat/emotes Clans/Guilds Forums / offline chat Player Management
- 18. See L1+L2+L3 ++ Persistent World Tech L4: Persistent World ©2013-2018 metalparts
- 19. Meta Servers Patch Server Database / Sync More... Persistent World Tech https://www.mmorpg.com/
- 20. Summary of Challenges Incentives/Rewards - novelty, balance, individualization, schedule Competition/Cooperation - ID, shared stats, cheating, notification People Interaction - Friends: invites, chat; Strangers: filtering/emotes, skill matching Game State Mgmt - latency tolerance, frequency, reliability, client authority / cheating L1 L2 Real-time MP Tech - speed/QoS, core networking, cheating, cost L3 L4 Community vs Toxicity - forums, clans (self mgmt), player management Persistent World Tech - meta servers, patch servers, sharding, data synchronization, more...
- 21. The Path Forward Quality Accessibility Scalable Flexible Fast/performant Reliable Cost-down Usability
- 22. Micah Baker Product Manager Google Cloud Power Up Your Connected Games Google Cloud
- 23. Open Build your game your way Secure Protect your game and data Innovative New solutions for new problems Scalable Performant, reliable and cost effective scale Google Cloud
- 24. Connected games need cloud infrastructure L4 Connectedness Infrastructure L3 L2 L1
- 25. Cloud Infrastructure & Extended Services Development Environment & Managed Services Google Cloud
- 26. ● Global game databases ● Innovative AI/ML models ● Connected game services Innovate ● Launch coordination ● Capacity planning ● Fast game server scaling ● Operations monitoring Launch ● Dynamic game content ● Improved matchmaking ● Game analytics Engage Google Cloud + Unity power connected games
- 29. How should I design my game? Rethink global. Google Cloud
- 31. I want to use more... Machine Learning. Google Cloud
- 32. Machine learning is... ● One branch of the field of Artificial Intelligence ● A way of solving problems without explicitly codifying the solution ● A way of building systems that improve themselves over time
- 33. Games built Google ML
- 34. Google “applied learning” projects
- 35. Applying ML to gaming Testing and QA bots In game chat translations Player assistance Fraud & cheat detection Finding a good match Tracking player toxicity
- 41. Challenge accepted... Launch&Scale Get Help Build Innovate L1: Dynamic Single Player L2: Turn-based Multiplayer L3: Real-time Multiplayer Session-Based L4: Persistent World Real-Time
- 42. On the horizon... 42 Brandi House Product Manager Unity
- 43. 43 Dedicated Game Servers ● Hosting and Scaling ● Runtime ● Deploying and Sharing ● Monitor and Debug
- 44. 24x7x365 Support Personal Account Management Hundreds of games launched Host and Scale with Multiplay and GCP Dedicated Game Servers Premium Support Rapid scaling for your game, driven by player demand Zero Downtime patching Health and Uptime management Powerful Tech Hybrid blend of Cloud and Bare Metal Global scale for your launch Cost optimized solutions Flexible Infrastructure
- 45. Optimizing Unity Headless Linux Runtime Dedicated Game Servers Time for a diet...
- 46. Deploy and Share Tools with Cloud Build Dedicated Game Server
- 47. Monitor and Debug in Dev Dashboard Dedicated Game Servers
- 48. 48 Networking ● ECS-compatible Transport Layer ● FPS “Archetype”
- 49. 49 Matchmaking ● OSS Project with GCP ● Unity Managed Service
- 51. Beyond the horizon... 51 ● Player Auth/ID ● Friends/Invites/Parties ● Game state management ● Player economy / rewards ● … tell us what you need!
- 52. Unity and Google Alliance 52 Unity: ○ Accessible Game Dev Tools and Workflows ○ Multiplay orchestration Google: ○ Massive scale cloud services and infrastructure ○ Flexible and Open
- 53. Questions? 53