While the rest of the software world talks about moving to “Continuous Delivery,” most game companies were ahead of the curve and began accelerating their release cycles some time ago. But their need for speed places a burden on development and release processes, impacting everyone from designers to developers to artists to operations staff. View our panel discussion with Ubisoft, Sony Computer Entertainment and Turbine as they share their best practices, industry challenges and proven techniques for releasing better quality games faster. Register for the on-demand webinar: http://bit.ly/1nXk6WZ

1. Expert Panel:
Releasing Better
Games Faster
Continuous Delivery
& the Need for Speed

2. Releasing Better Games Faster
Gabe Weiss
Technical Lead, Perforce Software
• 10+ years in engineering at Perforce
• Previously at Bioware
• Currently technical lead on P4V project
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MODERATOR

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Nathan Sitkoff
Engineering Manager, Turbine
Pierre Laliberté
Build Master, Ubisoft Montreal
Sean Houghton
Lead Tools Programmer,
Sony Computer Entertainment

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Nathan Sitkoff
Engineering Manager, Turbine
• Over 15 years in the game development
industry
• Engineer at Turbine since 2007
• Engineering Manager for The Lord of the
Rings Online
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About Turbine
• Wholly owned by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Creator of Asheron’s Call, Dungeons and Dragons Online,
The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO), and Infinite Crisis
• LOTRO is currently developed by a team of more than 20
designers, artists, and software engineers
• LOTRO source control begins in 2003 and includes over
500000 changelists by more than 100 people

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Pierre Laliberté
Build Master, Ubisoft Montreal
• Over 15 years in the game development
industry
• Worked on everything from indies to AAA
productions
• Most recently shipped Assassin's Black Flag
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About Ubisoft
• Worldwide producer, publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment
• Development teams in several countries and distributes
games in over 55 countries around the world
• Largest studio, Ubisoft Montreal, has over 2650
employees
– 80% work directly in game production

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Sean Houghton
Lead Tools Programmer, Sony Computer Entertainment
• Over 20 years in computer graphics and game
development
• Former Technical Director at High Moon Studios
developing games for Xbox, Playstation3, and
Playstation2
• Started career as animator for television & film
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About Santa Monica Studio
• Established in 1999 as part of Sony’s Worldwide
Studio group
• Responsible for the God of War series
• Supports and publishes games from external studios
such as Thatgamecompany and Giant Sparrow
• 200+ employees

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BRANCHING STRATEGIES

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CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION

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PIPELINE ACCELERATION

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QUESTIONS

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THANK YOU!!!
Gabe Weiss:
gweiss@perforce.com
P4Ideax
Forums

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Code Review Workflows
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