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Thursday, October 13
 

2:00pm PDT

IXC - Sponsored Session - Sony Playstation Q&A
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about how to get your games on Sony platforms. It's a lot easier than you might think, and it's something that's worked well for a number of other indies!
Thursday October 13, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  IndieXChange
 
Saturday, October 15
 

10:00am PDT

GameU - Welcome to GameU: Tips for Beginning Developers, Room 106
Let's kick off another great year of GameU! The way games get made is constantly evolving. To get started we'll bring everyone onto the same page with a practical discussion about which classic advice still holds true as ever, which has fallen somewhat out of date in light of technology or developer culture, and what are some seemingly new ways that people are getting their start. This won't be a technical talk, but will include pros and cons for several programming language options to help attendees find one that works for them. Similarly this isn't specifically an art talk, but we'll discuss changing trends, techniques, and tools in indie game development that can help you fill in your game's art needs with greater confidence. We'll discuss sustainable strategies and process for working your way into the indie game ecosystem in a way that maximizes your learning and positioning without taking on undue financial risk.
Speakers
avatar for Chris DeLeon

Chris DeLeon

Chris has been making games for 20 years. He's worked with startups and AAA games, taught game creation at Georgia Tech, and spoken at more than 10 conferences (including GDC, IndieCade, and SIEGE). Over 90,000 students have gone through his online courses, and he's done countless... Read More →
avatar for Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose is a producer, game designer, illustrator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Graduating with a Masters of Science in Biomedical Communications from the University of Toronto, Tabby started her career creating educational applications for medical students and clinicians... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

11:00am PDT

GameU - KEYNOTE: Mental Health for GameDev Community, Room 106
Working in the games industry, it can often feel like there are a thousand things to do which are more urgent than looking after your own mental health. However, there is ample evidence which confirms that common conditions, such as depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, and social isolation, can impact on your work and your wider health. A systematic stigma against mental illness has resulted in many people feeling unable to speak out about their experiences or get help, causing a long term impact to their wellbeing.
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Jennifer Hazel

Dr. Jennifer Hazel

Jennifer is a fully qualified medical doctor who has practised in both the UK and Australia. She spent several years working in the Emergency Department before specialising in Psychiatry. Jennifer is a passionate advocate for the use of game technology in the therapeutic setting... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

12:00pm PDT

GameU - Crash Course Tour of Unreal Engine, Room 106
In this session, we will provide an overview of the Unreal Editor, with an emphasis on rapid prototyping and core Unreal Engine concepts. We will cover Game Templates, Blueprint, Game Framework, basic materials, effects, and more.
Speakers
avatar for Alan Noon

Alan Noon

A Game Industry veteran with over 20 years experience in Content Creation, Game Design, and Project Management, Alan Noon has been a part of a wide range of product ranging from coin op, console, and pc games, to mobile apps and slot machines.As Senior Developer Relations Technical... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

1:00pm PDT

GameU - Using Unreal Sequencer for Real-Time Cinematic Storytelling, Room 106
In this session, we will investigate Sequencer: Unreal Engines new realtime cinematic s tool. Topics to be covered include: Shot based work flow, working with Takes, game play recording, and the cinematic tool feature set.
Speakers
avatar for Alan Noon

Alan Noon

A Game Industry veteran with over 20 years experience in Content Creation, Game Design, and Project Management, Alan Noon has been a part of a wide range of product ranging from coin op, console, and pc games, to mobile apps and slot machines.As Senior Developer Relations Technical... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

3:00pm PDT

GameU - Talking About YOUR Game (Workshop), Room 106
Whether you've already got a game you're working on (woooo!), one you've recently finished (congrats!), or simply want to be better prepared for when you reach that point (you will!), you're going to have to talk about it. Although this sounds like such an easy thing to do, after all you know your game inside and out, it's an extremely normal thing to struggle with. Many developers feel weird about marketing and find it uncomfortable to "bother" other people about their game, especially strangers. In this session we'll show how that's backwards, how done right talking about your game is part of a bigger picture about finding the audience fit for who will most appreciate that you helped them find out about it. To do this we'll partly be incorporating breakouts to strategize about ways to make your game's case more efficiently and effectively.
Speakers
avatar for Chris DeLeon

Chris DeLeon

Chris has been making games for 20 years. He's worked with startups and AAA games, taught game creation at Georgia Tech, and spoken at more than 10 conferences (including GDC, IndieCade, and SIEGE). Over 90,000 students have gone through his online courses, and he's done countless... Read More →
avatar for Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose is a producer, game designer, illustrator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Graduating with a Masters of Science in Biomedical Communications from the University of Toronto, Tabby started her career creating educational applications for medical students and clinicians... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

4:00pm PDT

GameU - Virtual Reality Best Practices (panel), Room 106
This panel will share tips and advice to help people new to VR get to a better, more playable result sooner. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes, and benefit from some of the most recent experimentation in the field.
Speakers
avatar for Robyn Gray

Robyn Gray

Robyn Tong Gray is an interactive media designer who weaves new media together to explore narrative and empathy. She is the co-founder and CCO of Otherworld Interactive, a studio focused on creating consumer facing virtual reality experiences. Her projects have been featured... Read More →
avatar for Rob Jagnow

Rob Jagnow

Rob Jagnow joined Google in April 2015 after spending 8 years running Lazy 8 Studios, a small independent game company in San Francisco. At Google, he leads a team of virtual reality pioneers and thought leaders. Working in small groups, they aim to create at least one new VR prototype... Read More →
avatar for Nic Vasconcellos

Nic Vasconcellos

Nic is a cofounder of Turbo Button, an LA-based VR gaming studio most recognized for games such as "A Night at the Roculus", "SMS Racing", and "Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games." Having worked on VR games for nearly three years, his interests lie in the marriage of gameplay... Read More →

Saturday October 15, 2016 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU
 
Sunday, October 16
 

10:00am PDT

GameU - How to Stream Game Development, Room 106
A look into why streaming on Twitch can help you as a gamedev no matter what stage you're at. You'll learn about benefits of streaming live, how to grow a community, and how it helps you in your career. We'll also discuss the few downsides and how to overcome it. This introductory course will give you insight that will help you in ways that might surprise you and have you see what will be coming in the future for game development.
Speakers
avatar for Starlight Skyes

Starlight Skyes

Jillian is a game developer and creative streamer on Twitch. She works at two indie game studios and is a leader game development group on top of streaming. She mostly focuses on art and marketing at her studios. Her goal is to educate people on the industry, game development... Read More →

Sunday October 16, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

11:00am PDT

GameU - Gamedev as a Coping Strategy for Mental Health, Room 106
Approached in the right way game development can happen in our lives in a therapeutic way, as an expressive creative outlet, or even as a novel way to communicate with a community of our peers challenges that we're going through. In this panel we'll each share stories and examples of how that has happened in our lives as developers, as well as considerations and strategies for how others may be able to find in it a source of strength or type of personal support.
Moderators
avatar for Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose

Tabby Rose is a producer, game designer, illustrator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Graduating with a Masters of Science in Biomedical Communications from the University of Toronto, Tabby started her career creating educational applications for medical students and clinicians... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Ayres

Andrea Ayres

Andrea Ayres is a writer and game developer living in Palo Alto, California. She enjoys writing about the intersection of games, media, politics, and psychology for places like Unwinnable, KillScreen, and TheAwl. Andrea released her first game, The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha... Read More →
avatar for Alec Holowka

Alec Holowka

Alec Holowka is an indie game developer and composer from Winnipeg, Canada. He worked with Derek Yu to create "Aquaria," an IGF award-winning underwater metroidvania released in 2007. He went on to create the "Offspring Fling" and "TowerFall" soundtracks. Currently he is developing... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Jiao Hsia

Jenny Jiao Hsia

Jenny Jiao Hsia is a game developer, born and raised in New York City. She is currently finishing up her BFA in game design at the NYU Game Center. In 2015, she cofounded Hexecutable with her partner AP Thomson. Together, they released Stellar Smooch, which was nominated for Best... Read More →
avatar for Kaitlin Tremblay

Kaitlin Tremblay

Kaitlin Tremblay is a writer, editor, and game designer living in Toronto. She is the author of the upcoming book Ain't No Place for a Hero: Borderlands (ECW Press, 2017) that examines the subversive storytelling used in the Borderlands franchise. She was the co-author of the book... Read More →

Sunday October 16, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

1:00pm PDT

GameU - From Music Composer to Game Music Composer (panel), Room 106
You know about music. Whether you play an instrument, have scored animations, or already produce music to be listened to separately, there are concepts and steps that will be needed to transition from that knowledge to making music ready for use in games. These musicians will share differences in how they think differently about the creation of music for games in contrast to music for other purposes.
Moderators
avatar for Jarryd Huntley

Jarryd Huntley

Jarryd Huntley, a Coding Bootcamp Instructor at We Can Code IT, is a Cleveland area technologist who has been working in IT for nearly a decade. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Akron he has worked at a number of local enterprises, as well... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Nathan Chambers

Nathan Chambers

Nathaniel Chambers is a freelance music composer and sound effects engineer. His sound and music credits include Primordia and Shardlight (Wadjet Eye Games), Extreme Exorcism (Gold Ruby Games), Super Rad Raygun (Trufun Entertainment), Pulse Of The Samurai (Rob Meyer... Read More →
avatar for Vincent Diamante

Vincent Diamante

Vincent Diamante is the Audio Director at thatgamecompany, arriving there after collaborating with the studio as a music composer on their earlier titles Flower and Cloud.  In earlier years, he worked as a radio show host, journalist, and photographer, in addition to sound design... Read More →
avatar for Disasterpeace

Disasterpeace

Rich Vreeland ties the name Disasterpeace to the things he releases into the sonic ether. Disasterpeace has 50 albums to its credit, in addition to having designed, scored and programmed sound and music related things in a number of mediums including games, film, television and theatre... Read More →

Sunday October 16, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
  GameU

2:00pm PDT

Universities for GameDev (panel), All Festival Welcome in GameU's Room 106
What are some of the benefits and differences between different university game school programs? Hear it directly from professors and representatives of the programs!
Moderators
JG

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NG
DU
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Sunday October 16, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
USC SCI 106
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