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| Monday, 11 August 2008 | |
Time |
Session |
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:05 | Opening Remarks/Welcome |
| Speaker | Simon Harvey |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Opportunities in the New Digital Age |
| Speaker | Chris Deering |
| 10:30-10:45 | Dare To Be Digital |
| Speaker | Paul Durrant (Director, Dare To Be Digital) |
| Paul Durrant will preview the Dare ProtoPlay event happening alongside EIF in the Cromdale Hall and describe the Dare team's upcoming invitation to contribute to the redesign of Dare to be Digital for 2009 |
| 10:45-11:30 | Who Plays What and Why |
| Speaker | Sean Dromgoole CEO Some Research and GameVision |
| GameVision interviews more than 40,000 gamers a year in Europe and the US on behalf of all the major publishers. Every four years or so we take a step back from the usual usage and attitude tracking and segment the market. We’ve just done it again. Are your audience Scrappers or Wolves? Snackers or Lone Rangers? And what does it mean for you if they are? All will be revealed. |
| 11:30-11:45 | Comfort Break |
| 11:45-12:30 | Keeping the UK on Top of Its Game |
| Speaker | Rod Cousens MD Codemasters |
| 12:30-13:00 | Too Cool for School - A New Look at Games in Educations |
| Speaker | Graham Brown-Martin MD Handheld Learning |
| This session will show how off-the-shelf games and consoles are being used today to achieve transformational improvements in learning and teaching practice for a fraction of the cost of traditional ICT deployment. The session will also urge developers NOT to start designing games for schools but to stick to what they do best, create compelling interactive entertainment. |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Treat Me Like A Lover |
| Speaker | Margaret Robertson |
| The last twelve months have been dominated with talk of Bioshock, GTA IV and Wii Fit. But are they really the most significant games of the year? Have they done the most to change the rules, and to establish the trends which will shape the industry in the years to come? While they get the headlines, the games whose personnel, means of production, target audience, chosen platform, gameplay innovations, visual style, business models or marketing approach are rather more revolutionary can easily get overlooked. So, if you've ever wished you'd spotted Portal back when it was still Narbacular Drop, this session will steer you through the robot-building, wing-walking, child-rearing, music-battling games that will change the industry in 2009. |
| 14:15-15:00 | |
| Speaker | |
| 15:00-16:00 | The Future of Alternative Reality Games |
| Speaker | Patrick O'Luanaigh (MD nDreams)
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| This session will feature some of the most experienced names from the growing genre of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs). After a whistlestop tour of some recent examples, we'll discuss where the panel see ARGs going in the future. We'll explore business models, opportunities offered by new technology, their rising use for advertising and promotion, and other key areas as the panel gazes into their collective crystal ball... |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Arcade Amusements Get Wired |
| Speaker | Kevin Williams ( KWP Limited) |
| Kevin Williams, of KWP Limited will look at what the Out-of-Home interactive entertainment industry represents to the creative culture of games and interactive entertainment. |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Virtual Economies and their Global Impact |
| Speaker | Kevin Higgins (President, Pay By Cash) |
| Tens of millions of us live here, work here, and play here every day. We're more than just a number. We have real relationships here. We laugh and cry here. The population is growing, and so is its economy. Where is this place? It's the virtual universe in which hundreds of virtual worlds are developing, and more are forming every year. But when it comes to these populations and economies, just how large is large? How compelling are the experiences of its current "residents?" What keeps people here, what's going to keep them coming back, and what's going to keep drawing in new residents? |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | The Edge Award |
| Speaker | Alex Wiltshire, Deputy Editor, Edge; |
| The UK’s leading games media company, Future are bringing the hugely popular and influential EDGE Awards to the Festival again, as well as offering their support through publishing the official Interactive Festival guide. The guide will be available in all Gamestation stores across Scotland along with consumer tickets for the three-day event. Gamestation will also have a large on-site retail presence at the Festival, selling a range of games consoles, games and other exclusive merchandise. Consumers at the event will also be privy to some fabulous in-festival promotions and discounts. |
| Tuesday, 12 August 2008 | |
Time |
Session |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Opening Remarks |
Fred Hasson, Redbedlam |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Real politics invade virtual worlds – dealing with social and economic issues in EVE online |
| Chairman Speaker |
Fred Hasson |
| The social and economic consequences of in game communities must be one of the most fascinating subjects in the games industry. The skills needed in this genre of games, has much if not more to do with how one effectively intercedes and moderates growing communities as it has the technology and content production. EVE Online have quite correctly recognised the importance of this and their research is extremely revealing.” |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | The 3 MMOs: From Content to Community |
| Speaker | Toby Simpson CTO Nice Tech
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| There’s a lot being written about virtual worlds and a lot of funds being invested in them but when you look at who’s out there doing it, it’s a short list. We’ll be looking at what it takes to build these new forms of entertainment, knowing it requires a lot more than technology. |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | GPS Shows the Way to the Future |
| Speaker | Magnus Nilsson |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | The Reset Generation - how today's youth is influencing tomorrow's games |
| Speaker | Scott Foe |
| Today’s youth are the “reset generation”; Young people who, when a situation becomes difficult or burdensome, quit and start over again in a different situation. Foe will examine the impact of the reset generation on the gaming world, talk around new titles such as RG to show how youth is influencing games today, and ultimately conclude that this generation is already defining what entertainment will be in the future. |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Wrap Up and Thanks |
| DIS:E 08 Schedule | |
Time |
Session |
| 14:00 | Welcome |
| 14:10 | Richard Bartle (University of Essex) Games and Academia: A rant |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 | Eyolfur Gudmundsson (CCP) |
| 15:45 | Austin Tate (University of Edinburgh) Innovative Education using Virtual Worlds |
| 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | Gianna Cassidy (Glasgow Caledonian University) |
| 17:00 | Roundtable discussion |
| 17:30 | Wrap up |