GamesPro Talks
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GamesPro Talks 2010

Games Fleadh 2010 Games Pro Speakers TBA

GamesPro Talks 2009

Time Speaker Organisation Profile Topic
4.00pm Dave Mitchel
 Microsoft   Keynote : Announcement of XNA Ireland Challenge College Cup awards. XNA Keynote.
TBC Wayne Imlach PopCap Games International Ltd.

Wayne Imlach is a senior designer at PopCap Games, a leading casual game developer and publisher, whose games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times worldwide. Top titles include the Bejeweled franchise, Bookworm, Peggle and Zuma.

Although currently concentrating on mobile development, Wayne has a broad range of previous industry experience stretching back to 1995, working for big studios such as EA (Bullfrog), Sony (Psygnosis) and Rockstar (San Diego), as well as smaller independents such as Climax and the late Muckyfoot.

Some of his notable releases include Theme Hospital, Wip3out and Startopia (the latter two being BAFTA winner and nominee respectively).

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TBC Matthew Rubin Black Rock Studio Matt is a seasoned software engineer over with over 8 years of games-industry experience.  He works at Brighton-based Black Rock Studio (formerly Climax Racing) where he is a Lead Programmer on a groundbreaking unannounced racing title that aims to ignite and excite fans of the genre with innovative gameplay and epic effects.  Previous credits include development on the MotoGP series (including both MotoGP07 and MotoGP06) where he implemented a high performance crowd system and an original visibility algorithm using an offline automatic occlusion system.  Prior to his move to England, he spent the previous 4 years working on the NBA Ballers franchise at Midway Games in Chicago. Matt was involved as a judge in the 2008 XNA Ireland games competition and has presented his work on MotoGP at the 2007 Develop Conference.  Matt holds a bachelors degree in computer science and has several published articles to his credit. Black Rock Studio: Culture, Content and Quality
TBC Jamie McCormick Gala Networks Europe Ltd Jamie McCormick is a graduate of DIT and has worked in a variety of business roles across the Irish games industry since 2000. These include games retailer Gamesworld prior to its takeover by GameStop, middleware company Demonware and browser game publisher Omac Industries. He is now English Marketing Manager of Gala Networks Europe, publisher of the free-to-play MMORPG Dragonica You have your game, what next? Marketing games to the international market
TBC Pieter Vos
 Independent Games Developer

Pieter is a graduated from Tipperary Institute with a BSc in Software Development. He began his games industry career as a mobile games tester with TKO Software. Pieter later joined Nephin Games as a developer and is now Distributed Systems Programmer with Temetra.

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Please note this schedule is subject to change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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