Industry Leaders from EA, Activision, THQ, and Ubisoft gather for Northeast event
Philadelphia, PA---Tuesday, August 25, 2009---The GameX Industry Summit today announced its final line-up of confirmed game conference sessions and speakers. Co-located with GameX (Games & Media Expo) on October 24-25, 2009, GameX Industry Summit is an inaugural game development conference presented by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) chapters in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
GameX Industry Summit, a 2-day conference with game development-focused lectures, panels, roundtables and keynotes from games industry leaders developed exclusively for game industry professionals an affordable cost, has gathered an impressive line-up of more than 40 speakers, with a heavy concentration of game professionals from the East Coast, as well as speakers from around the U.S. and Canada.
Keynote speakers include Chris Foster, Design Director for Harmonix Music Systems; Clint Hocking, Creative Director for Ubisoft Montreal; Jason Della Rocca, President of Perimeter Partners; and Richard Rouse, Lead Single Player Designer for Kaos Studios/THQ. Additional conference speakers represent well-known game companies such as CCP, Vicarious Visions, Firaxis Games, Freeverse, 38 Studios, Large Animal Games and numerous other studios.
Brandon Van Slyke, conference speaker and game designer for Vicarious Visions/Activision, states “What's great about the GameX Industry Summit is its' strength through community. For the first time, we're seeing the major East Coast game development communities coming together and collaborating on an event to ensure its relevancy amongst other professionals. From Boston, through New York, Philly, Baltimore, all the way down to Atlanta; game professionals covering every genre and platform have worked together to create a venue for this type of communal knowledge sharing.”
To provide balanced programming for all aspects of game development, The Right Brain and The Left Brain tracks were developed to help game developers working in the content and creative management side of the industry, as well as those dealing with business strategies and production methodologies. Over 20 sessions will cover topics from game design to game audio, monetizing social games to iPhone trends, presented by game development visionaries from top game companies.
Mike Worth, GameX Industry Summit show producer and head of VGI Philadelphia, offers, “We're thrilled to publicize this fantastic session list. This summit, focusing on high-value industry-to-industry content, was driven through true grass-roots efforts by a combination of IGDA chapters, professional trade organizations, and the passion of professional game developers themselves. The result is a high-value, high-octane set of sessions that showcase some of the unique aspects of East Coast game development, and create a friendly, fun environment for game professionals to learn and grow in their disciplines.”
With the emphasis on hard-core game development, GameX Industry Summit includes compelling featured sessions with catchy titles like “The Love Triangle Game: Understanding and Navigating the Strategic Partnerships Between Publishers, Developers, and Outsourcers,” “Next-Gen Content Creation for Next-Gen AI,” “Beyond Raids and Ganks: Exploring Next-Gen MMOs in a non WoW-Killer Context” and “I Can Slack Off, My Code Is Compiling.” Other sessions run the gamut from improving team management techniques to marketing best practices for title development and launch, including as special featured session "Massively Agile Development,” presented by Nathan Richardsson, Executive Producer at CCP.
GameX Industry Summit opens with a VIP party on Friday, October 23, followed by an all-star extravaganza on Saturday, October 24. featuring free retro gaming and live video game music from Big Daddy and the Splicers and The OneUps. GameX Industry Summit is produced in conjunction with the Philly Game Jam, a 48-hour game development marathon with over 100 game developers, which concludes with an awards ceremony and luncheon for all Philly Game Jam participants and GameX Industry Summit attendees on Sunday, October 25, co-sponsored by GameDev.net.
Registration for GameX Industry Summit is $55 per person, and includes access to the parties and luncheon. In addition, GameX Industry Summit attendees have access to GameX, a game consumer convention supported by a major media sponsor, NBC Local Media in Philadelphia – WCAU TV/NBC 10. Register online today at http://www.gamexindustrysummit.com/.
About GameX Industry Summit
http://www.gamexindustrysummit.com/
GameX Industry Summit is two-day game industry conference presented by the IGDA chapters in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia, and sponsored by A-List Promotions, Creative Talent Network, GameDev.net, GameJobs.com, GameRecruiter, Hypernia, IndustryGamers, NY Games Conference, nycgameindustry.com, Triangle Game Conference, VGI Philadelphia and Weston Mason.
GameX Industry Summit is co-located at GameX (Games & Media Expo), a national game consumer show and ‘pop culture’ festival produced by Virtual Rush Gaming and NBC Local Media in Philadelphia, designed to draw from local, regional and national audiences of game players, film and TV fans, comic book buffs and tech enthusiasts.
About NBC Local Media Philadelphia
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/
NBC Local Media Philadelphia is an owned and operated entity of NBC Universal in the 4th largest television market in the country, comprised of a Television Station (WCAU NBC10), an Internet site (nbcphiladelphia.com), two Digital Channels (Universal Sports and NBC Plus), a Production Company (StudioTEN Creative Group), and out of home opportunities (The University Network and Fuelcast). NBC Local Media Philadelphia broadcasts to over 2.8 million households and reaches over 1 million uniques per month on their digital platforms.
To learn more about the IGDA chapters in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia, please visit http://www.nycgames.org/, http://www.njchapter.com/, http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/, http://www.igda.org/baltimore and http://www.igda.org/philly.