Powering Games, Empowering Creators

Whether you're just getting started on your next title or want to grow your existing catalog, each feature of PlayFab Economy v2 is designed to help you easily manage and scale your in-game economies. Join Wes from the PlayFab Monetization team as he walks through 5 exciting features in 5 minutes that will help you unlock more possibilities than ever before. See how to use the new Draft and Published item states, parse through large catalogs with intuitive Search, get creative with pricing, stacks and collections, and more.

Hear from Xbox's James Lewis as he explains how the new Xbox Developer Acceleration Program empowers underrepresented creators around the world to bring their creativity, innovation, and originality to Xbox platforms. Learn how the program can unlock valuable resources, and personalized support to help creators succeed.

Learn how AI/ML-powered features can help create personalized gameplay experiences with the click of a button. Enabled by PlayFab data schema and built on top of the tooling customers are already familiar with, Azure PlayFab Churn Prediction helps reduce attrition and retain players for any title regardless of its platform or maturity stage.

Around the world, Xbox has been recognized for making more games more accessible to players with disabilities. Similarly, Xbox development tools are becoming more accessible to welcome more creators into gaming. In this talk, learn about the new accessibility features in the Microsoft GDK and Xbox Manager including improved keyboard controls, narrator/screen reader support, app scaling and high contrast modes. Guided by the Microsoft Accessibility Standards, these features help empower more creators of differing abilities to make their game development dreams come true.

Azure is the world’s most trusted cloud, but can it deliver the unique multiplayer services that game developers need across platforms? In a word: YES. Learn about three unique Multiplayer Services in Azure PlayFab that deliver impeccable cross-platform multiplayer experiences on any game including PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Linux, macOS, PC, and Xbox. In this case study, Microsoft presents an overview of PlayFab Party, Matchmaking, and Lobby with real-time notifications, followed by Piktiv who share tips, tricks and insights from their cross-play enablement work on Valheim that will help you get the most out of Azure PlayFab.

Publisher No More Robots has launched numerous titles to Game Pass, including Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw and Yes, Your Grace. In this talk, No More Robots co-founder Mike Rose discusses the journey of bringing their latest title Let's Build a Zoo to Game Pass, from initial goals to results achieved.

The ongoing development of Rare’s games are currently benefiting from continued integrations with Unreal Engine in Visual Studio 2022. In this talk, you will hear how game developers from Rare used Visual Studio native visualizers (natvis) to debug their games, learn advanced tips & tricks for the Visual Studio watch window and hear about the blazing fast new search experience.

Variable State is the developer of innovative narrative-led games like Virginia and Last Stop. In this conversation you’ll hear from director and co-founder Jonathan Burroughs on how his team has been working with cloud technology powered by Azure to improve their development process and work more effectively as a fully remote team. In addition, Jonathan explains how ID@Azure and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub have helped Variable State get access to powerful tools and technologies at no cost, empowering them to trial and embrace cloud technology risk-free as they develop their largest, most ambitious project yet.

Welcome to the new ID@Xbox Onboarding Hub! In this demo, Nick Hegge from ID@Xbox goes through the step-by-step process that will take creators from application to approval in less than 30 days. Learn insider tips and best practices to ensure your application is set up for success when applying to bring your game to the program.

With over 100 million monthly players, Minecraft is one of the most influential games in history. One of the ways it has achieved success is by running powerful LiveOps tools to boost player engagement and retention. Come see how Minecraft engineers use PlayFab at scale to support its players across the world, and hear about off-the-shelf features that could suit your game too.

In August 2022, 343 Industries officially kicked off their Sustainability initiative. In this talk, we are offering a roadmap for developers who want to get started on Gaming Sustainability with their studio. From obtaining the appropriate approvals, to getting a team together and developing your first Sustainable feature – this talk will walk the audience through the 7 steps game developers need to take and the pitfalls they’ll need to avoid on the way to reducing their Carbon footprint.

Daisuke Yajima, Program Section Manager & Director on the Persona team at Atlus, discusses how his team partnered with Xbox Cloud Gaming to implement custom Touch Controls for Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal, by developing layouts specific to in-game scenarios to provide a best-in-class mobile gameplay experience for players. ESRB E-M.

After selling over 10 million copies of its melee-based multiplayer game NARAKA: BLADEPOINT on Windows PC, the team at NetEase Games decided that the time was right to bring the game to console users worldwide and serve a wider range of global players. When they started to port NARAKA over to console, however, the development team realized that they had some challenges to overcome on both the technical and the business side. In this case study, you’ll learn more about how NetEase worked with Azure to get NARAKA on to Game Pass and into the hands of over a million console players in its first month.