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(204) Putting It All Together - Building the Right Outsourcing Team
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Description: This talk will focus on building, improving and running your department including due diligence, staffing, budgets, bidding, expectations, and more. Gain real advice from someone whos built outsource departments for two major publishers that set the mold for the industry. Get an advantage most outsource departments never enjoy with useful tips that work.

Casual Play, Serious Money: Casino Game Technology in 2009
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Description: Whats nifty about casino gaming technology in 2009? Alphabetically: 3D games, AI, business model evolution, cashless games, growth of market, immersive experiences, jackpots, math, middleware, more screens, multiplayer, networked games, patents, physics, psychology, SDKs, skill games, surround sound, wireless games - plus a short recruiting pitch. Were stable, and hiring.

Directing the Prince Of Persia Camera: A Sustainable Development Approach
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Description: This talk will give attendees an in-depth look at the technology behind PRINCE OF PERSIAs camera, and how the focus on flexibility, scalability and reusability allowed it to reach its artistic quality. It will present long-term, artist-driven solutions to the common problems of a videogame camera.

My Lessons Learned from Flagship Studios
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Description: The spectacular rise and fall of Flagship Studios, developers of HELLGATE: LONDON acts as a cautionary tale for all independent developers. Join this hour-long talk that focuses on lessons learned as well as recommended strategies to help developers avoid an untimely demise.

Network Marketing: Leveraging Social Networks to Grow an MMO
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Description: See how CCP is leveraging social network engineering to generate subscriber growth in the 5 year old EVE Online MMO. Learn about the strategy of segmenting the social network. See how CCP visualizes social networks in general and the tactics it uses to drive marketing projects.

Pocket Fiction: Writing for Handheld Games
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Description: This lecture -- hosted by former Marvel Comics editor/writer Evan Skolnick -- exposes special considerations of writing for handheld systems like the Nintendo DS, points out various potential pitfalls, and explores the many ways to write outside the box while staying inside the budget.

Beyond Balancing: Using Five Elements of Failure Design to Enhance Player Experiences
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Description: This 20-minute lecture presents a toolbox for improving the design of failure in video games. Based on research on player reactions and attitudes towards failure across different audiences, the lecture identifies Five Elements of Failure Design for better failure design in single player games.

Production Methodology: Past, Present and Future
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Description: Cerny will take a look at a number of strategies he has seen in his 25 years of game development, starting with the golden age of the arcade and working his way forward to the present day, and then on to the future of game development.

Data Architecture & Asset Management for Scalable Asset Production Workflows and Pipelines
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Description: The EA Sports studio in Burnaby, Canada produces more than 250,000 art assets per year for over 15 titles. This lecture presents best practices, production lessons, and challenges involved in such a large scale game art production pipeline.

(307) Toward Solving Pathfinding
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Description: Indeed, Damian Isla, Lead AI on HALO 3, recently said pathfinding will always suck. This session brings together the best developers to address his statement head on and discuss the technical challenges of solving pathfinding in a large dynamic world.

(307) AI Summit Final QA and Closing Remarks
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Description: The organizers and speakers of the AI Summit will all be on stage to answer questions from the audience. We'll also discuss how to become more involved in the game AI community and how to help contribute to next years AI Summit.

(307) Parallelism in AI: Multithreading Strategies and Opportunities for Multi-core Architectures
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Description: This lecture will look at the practical elements of multithreading AI algorithms on today's hardware with an eye toward performance and debugging, while looking toward some interesting opportunities in the future.

(307) AI Summit Introduction and Welcome
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Description: The organizers of the AI Summit will give a brief overview of the two day event, previewing highlights and what to expect from each session. In addition, the newly formed AI Game Programmers Guild will be explained, along with how to become involved in the game AI community and help contribute to next years AI Summit.

(307) #define GAME_AI
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Description: This introductory presentation sets the stage for the AI Summit by discussing what we mean by game AI, along with some highlights of game AI over the years. We'll look at where it's all headed, what challenges we should be working on, and how the presenters of the AI Summit will help inspire and challenge us all to take game AI to the next level.

PIXELJUNK EDEN - Baiyon's CMYK vision
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Description: PIXELJUNK EDEN, the third release on the PixelJunk label, has won several awards for its innovative visual and audio style. Baiyon, the multimedia artist and creative force behind the game, explains how...

STAR OCEAN 4: Flexible Shader Management and Post-Processing
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Description: This session will start with an introduction of STAR OCEAN: THE LAST HOPE and their game engine. After that, it will focus on particular technologies such as physically-based camera simulation and flexible shader management as implemented in the engine.

(204) A Client Perspective - Process Made Painless!
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Description: Making games is not rocket science. It all starts with a great team but even a great team needs a process that works. Covering all the basics means keeping it simple and focusing on proven methods...

(204) A Vendor Perspective - Process Made Painless!
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Description: Set the groundwork for a successful experience with an outsource partner with a comprehensive production process. Learn what info to provide, questions to ask, and how to leverage the strengths of the outsource provider...Click on title to read full description.

(204) Making the Most of India - A Cultural Checklist
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Description: Going to India? Got advice from online FAQs and tourist guides? Forget about it! Learn what to expect, how to impress and how to make sure your trip to India rocks from someone who understands it better than some tour guide...Make your business trip into more than just another due-diligence operation. Get great ideas for how to experience the real India and maximize your success!

(204) Creating a Training Plan That Works
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Description: Training is the most important and often overlooked aspect of any studio whether its outsourcing or development. Who has time to train?...Do you have interns? Do you know what to look for when working with a school? Who manages your training program? This talk provides solid ideas for all the above for a topic that is more relevant to outsourcing than ever before...

(304) Making Web Games: The Indie Experience
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Description: In a candid presentation, the creators of Flash-based online games including IGF finalist GAMMA BROS and DINO RUN share the many lessons learned from their ongoing journey to become self-sustaining, artistically satisfied game developers -- and how those two concepts do not always have to be mutually exclusive....

(304) Indie Games: From Buzz To Business
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Description: The rise of downloadable and indie games has created a tremendous amount of interest in IGF and other game competition finalists and winners. The panelists will discuss the impact of the buzz gained from their exposure to the public, and how it impacted their efforts to establish themselves as viable independent studios.

(304) CRAYON PHYSICS DELUXE Postmortem
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Description: After a series of critically acclaimed monthly games released on his website, Petri Purho single-handedly produced the version of innovative physics sandbox game CRAYON PHYSICS DELUXE that won him the Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival last year. Having completed and released it, he returns to GDC to discuss the genesis of the project...

(304) 2008 IGF Finalist Overview
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Description: Steve Swink and Matthew Wegner, IGF Advisors, blaze through this year's IGF finalists in a fast-talking extravaganza of awesome games you've never heard of-- but will soon!

(303) Designing for the Blue Ocean
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Description: We close out this year's Summit with a segment on designing for the blue ocean. We start with three postmortems on games which pushed the design envelope into blue ocean territory. Finally, we have what we hope will be both an entertaining and enlightening finish to the day: the Blue Design Challenge. Three designers were recently given design criteria for a casual game....


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