Full Program
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Disclaimer: All lectures in section Gamelab Conference and Awards Gala Gamelab, equipped with simultaneous translation into English, Castilian and Catalan. By accessing auditoriums, and during the five minutes before the start of the session, the assistant can borrow a receiver translation leaving a security ID (DNI, NIE or passport) which is refundable upon return of the device. The rest of the talks that appear in the translation program does not have and will take place in Castilian or English depending on the origin of the speaker.
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10:15 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Welcome Act
Introductory talk by Chris James (Pocketgamer)
10:30 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Beyond the app store...is there life (and money) outside of Apple's garden?
Tim Harrison (Sony), Paul Flanagan (Tequila Mobile), Michael Shade (Fishlabs)
11:30 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Predictions on the future of mobile games
Xavier Carrillo (Digital Legends)
12:15 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Beyond mobile: Turning games into brands
Teemu Huuhtanen (Rovio), Matthew Wilson (Rovio)
13:00 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
The importance of being social
Chris Hanage (Papaya)
13:30 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Open Web Device, HTML5 mobile platform
Andrés Leonardo (Telefonica Digital UK)
15:30 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
An audience of billions. Just how big can the mobile games market get?
Simon Podd (Flurry)
16:15 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
Location-based game panel
Maarten Noyons (IMGA), Mathieu Castelli (C4M), Matthias Sala (Gbanga)
17:00 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
The case for PSVita: monetizing handheld games
Daniel Sánchez Crespo (Novarama)
17:45 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
The amazing journey from Facebook to mobile
Horacio Martos and Andrés Bou (SocialPoint)
18:30 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Llimona Saloon)
PG Battle Panel: Publishers vs Do It Yourself.
Chris James (Pocketgamer), Jim Ying (6Waves), Ricardo Carretero (Super Mega Team)
21:00 Catalonia Plaza Hotel (Garden Saloon)
Welcome / Gala Dinner
Sponsored by Plastic SCM
10:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
The Stone Age of Videogames
Randy Pitchford, CEO and President of Gearbox Software
10:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Unity 3.5: key features and workflows (engilsh session)
Russ Morris, Product Evangelist of Unity Technologies
11:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Who put that awesomesauce™ on my phone?!
Alexander Seropian, CEO of Industrial Toys
11:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Distributed Game Development with Plastic SCM
Unai Landa, CTO of Digital Legends and Pablo Santos Technical Director of Codice Software
12:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Creating Epic Fantasies
Hironobu Sakaguchi, Founder of Mystwalker. Talk about his personal career with Jason della Rocca, founder of Perimeter Partners.
13:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Hey, kickstart this!
Al Lowe, Game designer / Replay Games Consultant
13:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Edutaining People, Transforming Organizations
Cookie Box
14:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Adobe Flash: the Web videogame
Enrique Duvós, Manager of Adobe’s world wide gaming evangelism team
15:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Kicking the publishers out: Kickstarter and Wasteland 2
Chris Avellone, Creative Director of Obsidian Entertainment
15:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Marketing and promotion of content on Mobile Platforms
Javier Rodríguez and José Manuel Louro, Founders of RLS
16:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Building the identity of a Game Studio: Inside MercurySteam
Enric Álvarez, Creative Director of MercurySteam
16:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
The keys to success of the freemium model
Gerard Fernández, General Director and Jan Wedekind, Product Manager of Digital Chocolate Barcelona
17:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
The Future of Online Gaming...for consumers and developers
Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek GmbH
17:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Operational Strategies of Transversal Contents
Paco Asensi, Business Development Director of RTVE.es
18:00 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Ikari Studio: character's design for videogames
18:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Evolving Technology
Corrine Yu, Principal Engine Architect of Microsoft's Halo team
18:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Key Design of Interactive Narratives
Roberto Álvarez de Lara, Director of Over the Top Games
21:30 - 23:00 Arteria Palal-lel Lounge
Spanish Industry Awards Gala Night
23:00 Arteria Palal-lel Lounge
2012 Winners Party
Sponsored by Minijuegos.com
10:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Designing a Technology Strategy for a Large Publisher
Julien Merceron, Worldwide Technology Director of Square Enix Europe
10:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
International Markets & Industries Panel
Antonio Fernández, General Secretary of DEV
10:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Opportunities in the Brazilian and Latinamerican Games Market
Moacyr Alves, President of ACIGAMES
11:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Round Table: Digital Entertainment Industries
José María Lasalle (Secretary of State for Culture), Gonzo Suárez (Videogames Creator), moderated by José Garasino (Director of the Cinema Academy)
11:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Inside Korean Games Industry
Zakk lee, Special Videogames Agent of iTreeWorks
11:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Fostering growth in Europe's Games Industry
Barry O'Neil, President of Games Ireland
12:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Surpassing the limits of a virtual experience
Kazunori Yamauchi, Director of Polyphony Digital. Talk about his personal career with Jason della Rocca, founder of Perimeter Partners.
12:00 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Ikari Studio: character's design for videogames
13:00 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Bad interfaces
Phil Fish, President of Polytron
13:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
The importance of localizing
Diana Díaz, Native Prime
15:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
The current map of the MMO business worldwide
Carsten Van Husen, CEO of Gameforge GmbH
16:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Bringing storytelling to online games
James Ohlen, Creative Director of Bioware
17:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Creating innovative gameplay experiences that extend beyond the living room
Robert Bowling, President of Robotoki
18:00 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Francis Portela: HALO, from videogame to comic
18:30 Minijuegos Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Child's Play - The business of children's interactive content
Barry O'Neil, StoryToy's CEO
10:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
¿Seriously? The dark side of the Adventure
Josué Monchán, Pendulo Studios
11:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Advertising that is played
David Ferriz, Devilish Games
12:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Zack Zero Postmortem
Alberto Moreno, Crocodile Entertainment
12:00 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Sergio Sandoval: the creative process of Deux Ex and Uncharted comics
13:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Kinito Ninja, japanese adventures in 20 mb
Arturo Monedero, Delirium Studios
15:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Desde Crowther y Woods hasta Carmack y Notch: una historia del videojuego a través de sus programadores
Jon Beltrán de Heredia, U-TAD
16:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Keys of multiplatform games development
Unai Landa y Raúl Herrero, Digital Legends
17:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Design challenges of Supermagical
Ricardo Carretero, Founder of Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team
17:30 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Juan Carlos Concha: design and preproduction by animation
18:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
AfterZoom: a funny "serious game"
Nacho García, Abylight
18:45 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Ikari Studio: processes and color aplication for Arkham City and Uncharted
10:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Sugar Kid: sweet heroes and angry villians
Ramón Nafría, A Crowd of Monsters
11:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Hazel Dazzle, the 3rd dimension
Carlos Guzmán, Wake Studios
12:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
From hobby to profession: Forgotten Kodama's experience
Dano Alonso, Hugging Cactus
12:00 FICOMIC Stand / Escuela Joso (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Ikari Studio: processes and color aplication for Arkham City and Uncharted
13:00 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
3D design for videogames
Sergio Gardella, BloomPix Studios
15:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Composing the music for Castlevania
Oscar Araujo, MercurySteam
16:30 DEV Auditorium (Venue 1 Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic)
Desafío Champions: multiplayer action for browsers with Unity
David Dieguez, Kotoc Producciones
