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Unity Developer Summit: Stumbling into New Platforms: Taking 'Stumble Guys' to Console (Presented by Unity)
Jorge Martinez Vargas (Staff Engineer, Scopely)
Location: Room 2020, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 17
Time: 2:40 pm - 3:40 pm
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Track: Production & Team Leadership, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
In this session, attendees will learn how Stumble Guys – the mobile sensation party battle royale game – expanded to new platforms, becoming one of the top F2P console games released in 2024 while keeping an active release schedule on existing platforms.
This session gives an overview of the project and goals for platform expansion, then dives into two main focus areas. First, it addresses the decisions and trade-offs made to port the game while maintaining releases on existing platforms, followed by a discussion of the technical challenges faced and lessons learned bringing the game from mobile and Steam to WebGL and consoles.
Takeaway
Attendees will learn about some of the technical challenges of porting from mobile to different platforms, as well as some of the organizational considerations of porting a live game.
Intended Audience
This session is designed for developers interested in bringing their games to more platforms, or who are curious about the difficulties and learnings encountered along the way.
