Games Fleadh GamesPro : Digital Game Professionals Presentations |
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| ime | Speaker | Organisation | Profile | Topic |
| [13:40-13:50] | Colin McClean | LIT-Tipperary | Head of School | Welcome address |
| [13:50-14:00] | Paschal Donohoe | Teachta Dála | Paschal has contributed to discussions and action on national strategies including development of digital games sector. | |
| Session Chair
Michael Meagher
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Michael Meagher, Academic Engagement Manager, Microsoft Ireland | |||
| [14:00-14:20] | Jason Livingston | BioWare | Jason has spent his career in identifying, developing, and delivering world-class customer experience. He is passionate about business development, and believes that the customer relationship is the most critical piece to success in any consumer facing business. His career has afforded him positions in the US, Russia, India, London, Luxembourg, and Ireland. In 2001 he joined AOL, Inc. where he spent 8 years in various positions focusing on the global execution and delivery of Customer Support to a customer base of over 36 million. He has worked at an executive level for 3 Fortune 500 companies, served as an advisor to the board of directors, and managed global customer support models for customer audiences of over 100 million.In 2009, Jason found a new home and passion in the games industry. Jason joined BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts, Inc. as the Director of Customer Services. Jason’s role and responsibility was to design, develop, deliver “from scratch” a customer support solution for the upcoming MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, the largest and most ambitious MMO launch in gaming history. To accomplish this, Jason established BioWare Ireland’s Global Support Centre of Excellence, built a team of well over 400 in that location, in addition to a 1000+ global workforce to support the successful launch of the game on December 2011. | Keynote |
| [14:20-14:30] | Damien Costello | Galway Mayo Institute of Technology | Lecturer in Software Development | Student App-titude 10 games in 10 minutes a showcase of student Windows Phone 7 Games and Applications |
| [14:30-14:40] | Gaming Tournament awards announcements | |||
| [14:40-15:00] | Jonathon Young | PopCap Games International Ltd. | Jonathon is the Localization Director of PopCap Games and has over 16 years experience in the Games industry. His team adapts PopCap’s market leading games and make them more relevant for European fans. To date, he has worked on localising various iterations of PopCap’s hit franchises – Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies, Zuma’s Revenge! and Peggle – into 11 languages across myriad platforms including Facebook, Mac/PC, Smartphone and consoles. Prior to joining PopCap, Jonathon worked at Microsoft Game Studios on a diverse portfolio of games from Age of Empires to Flight Simulator and several AAA Xbox titles including Halo 2.Jonathon is also a founding member of Games Ireland, an advocacy group which seeks to drive sustainable growth in the Irish Games industry. | |
| [15:00-15:20] | Patrick
Murphy
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Open Emotion Studios | Patrick Murphy is the CEO, Sound Designer and Co-Founder of Limerick based development company, Open Emotion Studios. Patrick founded Open Emotion Studios along with Mike Naughton and Colm English and is one of the key figures behind Open Emotion Studios creative and original intellectual property. | Dealing with Publishers: This is Paddy’s second time presenting at Games Fleadh. In 2011 Paddy told us about “One crazy year” establishing Open Emotion Studios. During this presentation, in his usual entertaining and visionary style, Paddy will share his experiences of negotiating with publishers including do’s and do’s to avoid the dodo. |
| [15:20-15:30] | Colin Kavanagh & Christopher Bollard | Arthur Cox | Colin is a partner and head of the Media and Entertainment Group in Arthur Cox, one of Ireland’s leading law firms, and advises clients ranging from major Hollywood studios to Irish start-ups on commercial, intellectual property and regulatory matters relating to the media industry. Colin has advised clients in the gaming industry on rights acquisition, financing and a range of other issues.Chris is an associate in the Technology Group at Arthur Cox and advises clients on a range of gaming, IP, and e-business issues. He has a particular interest in console gaming, emerging technologies and cloud computing. | Protecting your Creations Colin and Chris will give a brief overview of intellectual property law in Ireland, focusing on copyright and helping developers avoid some of the common pitfalls in protecting their creations. |
| [15:30-15:50] | Alan Duggan | Tribal City Interactive | Alan is Founder and CEO of Tribal City Interactive, an independent game developer focused on original IP for iOS and Android. Previously, Alan was CEO of Nephin Games, a developer of community based mobile games for leading publishers such as Disney, Warner Brothers, and ESPN. Alan holds a BEng from the University of Limerick. He also studied at Boston University and MIT. | Establishing a studio and reaching gamers : Wondering what it takes to get a studio off the ground in Ireland and address a global games market? Based on personal experience, Alan will discuss the agony and the ecstasy of establishing a games studio in the west of Ireland and the constant struggle to reach your audience in a crowded market. |
| [15:50-16:00] | Tournament Award Announcements | |||
| [16:00-16:10] | Dan Kenny | Eyesodic Game Studios | After years of learning to make games on his own and gathering a small following in the indie community Dan set up Eyesodic Games in late 2010 with the aim of making games that are fun to play and is now working on some titles. | Game immersion for non-zombies : Immersion in games is what brings a game to life and makes you feel like this is real for the time you’re playing it. This presentation will give you an overview of how immersion is achieved in games such as open world RPG’s and will explain some methods of how to add immersion to a game. |
| [16:10-16:30] | David Kelly | PlayFirst | David Kelly, Senior Software Engineer for PlayFirst, International. Leads the development team for freemium games in the mobile space (iPhone and iPad). Graduate of MSc. in Interactive Entertainment Technology from Trinity College. | The day to day of delivering delightful play. A 20min overview of the daily development cycle for a social mobile game, covering rapid development and application of cloud services for game features. |
| [16:30-16:50] | Philip Lawson | Havok | Philip is working for Havok who specialise in real-time simulation software for games and film, as part of the Dev Ops team with the role of QA software engineer.As part of the Dev Ops team, Philip contributes to both the development of the in-house continuous integration system., the Havok Content Tools (3DS Max, Maya and Softimage plugins), custom builds as well as QA for both the HCT and SDK against such platforms as PlayStation3(R), Xbox360, Wii, PC, 3DS, Vita, Android and iOS to name a few. Developing scripts in Python (Max script, MEL and VB), to automate tasks such as exporting artist content to Havok formats, sanity checks for C++ code and error reporting. | The Havok Content Tools – Physics and Destruction A brief look at how the industry uses Havoks range of tools and plugins to setup game ready assets ready for integration into a game engine. |
| [16:50-17:00] | Kevin McGarry | NeverMind Games | Chief Creative Officer of NeverMind Games. Graduated from Computer Games Design in Ballyfermot College of Further Education in 2009. | Analysis of videogame worlds Analysing in game worlds and how art and design can affect and enhance the mechanics of videogames. Using examples from the games industry. |
| [17:00-17:10] | Alice Tuxford | Double Negative Visual Effects | Alice Tuxford is a Recruiter at Double Negative and joined the team in 2010. She has responsibility for internationally sourcing, selecting and recruiting the most talented professionals and graduates to join the Double Negative team for the London and Singapore offices. | Fun and games making movie FX Introduction to Double Negative. Brief overview of Film Visual Effects and how to get into the industry. |
| [17:10-17:20] | Michael Meagher | Microsoft | Academic Engagement Manager | Games Fleadh 2012 Awards |
| [17:20-17:40] | Panel | Panel Discussion “how can Ireland’s independent game developers achieve export growth” | ||
| Please note this schedule is subject to change. | ||||
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