ZOEY FAN: Hi, my name is Zoey. I'm a product manager here at
Google on the Flutter team. Flutter is Google's UI
toolkit for building multi-platform applications. Today, Flutter is used in more
than 1 million apps ranging from early-stage startups
to large companies, like ByteDance, Tencent,
BMW, and of course, Google, to deliver beautiful,
performant, and portable experiences
across platforms from a single codebase. Over the past few years,
tens of thousands of games have been published using
Flutter, from simple puzzles to more complex arcade games. Some of our favorites include
LOTUM's 4 Pics 1 Word, the popular word guess
game, the retro pinball game we built in Flutter
for io, and PUBG Mobile, who uses Flutter in their social
and menu screens where a 3D game engine is not needed. And that's why today,
I'm here to talk about how we're
investing in making game development in
Flutter faster and easier. To start, I want to
talk a little bit about why Flutter can be a great
choice for game developers. First, Flutter is
free and open-source giving you fine-grained grained
control over your game's rendering and input
handling, allowing you to debug issues
at their core and customize the
engine to your needs. Second, Flutter supports
multi-platform game development, so you
can build your game for iOS, Android,
web, and desktop, all from one single shared codebase. Spend less time worrying about
garbage collection and more time focused on retention. Finally, Flutter games
load fast and are generally very performant, even on
low-end devices or in browsers. Bundle sizes can be smaller,
because the Flutter engine only adds a few megabytes
to your game. And while those are
compelling reasons to use Flutter for
game development, we know that game developers
require even more support and resources, which is why
I'm excited to introduce you to the Flutter
Casual Games Toolkit, a collection of tools,
templates, and resources to make game developers more
productive with Flutter. So what's in the Flutter
Casual Games Toolkit? First, you'll find genre
specific templates, like our card game that
provides basic game UI, audio integration, and more
complex games with a game loop showcasing collision detection,
animation, and camera using popular open-source
game engines built on top of Flutter, like Flame. These templates make
it easy to get started building a casual game
in a specific genre, such as puzzles, runners,
or platformer games. After you have
gotten started, it's simple to implement add-ons
for things like leaderboards, achievements, authentication,
and monetization features, such as in-app purchases
and ads when you need them. And the best part is the
templates and resources in the Casual Games Toolkit are
provided free and open-source, so you can easily modify and
tweak to suit your needs. I can't cover everything in the
toolkit in such a short video. But we've got everything
I mentioned and more at flutter.dev/games. Head there to learn more and
join the Flutter game developer community. [MUSIC PLAYING]
