Festival of games 2010 focuses on everything online
The Game Conference at this year's Festival of Games is going to be something special. Today, most of the gameplay and business trends are related to Online. It affects the way games are played, developed, distributed, marketed and the way companies make money in the game industry. The Game Conference focuses on the most important developments in the games industry and related industries. It provides decision making knowledge presented by industry- and thoughtleaders on the latest trends in connected gaming and online business models. Order a conference pass now!
Day one
The conference kicks off with an inspirational journey through the history of the games industry. Brought to you by the men behind some of the greatest games ever conceived. After this, an incredibly rare look at some of the earliest, least known versions of today's best known games.
Following up this opener, the conference moves into more recent territory with a look at the world of today. Industry leaders, well known developers and new super talent will share everything they learned last year on developing and publishing games for online and mobile channels.
Day two
The conference starts with business knowledge, specific to the games industry. How to get funding for your game company? taught by a man who knows. How not to launch an MMO? How to be successful at developing and launching games for the fastest growing audience in our industry? Social networks.
During the last part the conference presents you exciting technology. Which engine is best suited for your project, for your artistic style, for your budget? Should you consider any of the new motion controllers? The conference will finnish with a bang: David Perry produces his vision of the future and shows the game-changing technology that is GAIKAI.
Quick sessions
Parallel to all all these great and inspiring sessions, we'll give you an alternative track. Our Quick Sessions, that are a maximum of fifteen minutes each will bring you up to speed on the latest developments in the games industry, show you the newest talents and offer you surprising looks behind the scenes.
Connected gaming Everybody plays games, even people who don’t consider themselves as gamers. They prefer to play and socialise with their friends. Online communities become ‘social playgrounds’ and good online games are tribal in both playing as well as distribution. This new generation of games and gamers is not only defined by technology, but by connectivity and community as well.
Online business models At a time when declining consumer confidence is cutting into traditional packaged videogame sales, games are moving from distributed products to digital services. Online gaming seems to be the growth area for the industry and one of the new business models to fight offline piracy. It is fertile ground for independent developers and publishers who are able to create high attention rates. Their online business models leverage attention and they know how to use word-of-mouth as the vehicle of growth and sustainable revenue. Because people play games and people pay for games. But instead of paying upfront, they pay along the way.
Winner Diamond Trophy 2010 During the Industry Party of the Festival of Games, the Diamond Tropy 2010 was awarded to the game 'Vogels!'. Most visitors of the Festival of Games had voted for this game as "best-of-show".
Winner Diamond Trophy 2010