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Casual Games and Community
Friday, September 8, 2006
11:00am - 12:00pm |
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Casual games have shown robust growth and the trend shows every sign of continuing; but ask the major distributors what keeps them up at night and community tops the list. How do you keep players engaged with your casual games destination when most of the major portals carry similar games, or in some cases, the same games.
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Creating Sam & Max Season 1 - An Episodic Case Study
Friday, September 8, 2006
1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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In this session, telltale talks about the process of developing interactive tales based on Steve Purcell?s popular Sam & Max: Freelance Police series. Topics include how to design for episodic and web delivery, devising animated machinima shorts for bridging the time between episodes and capturing Sam & Max?s unique humor
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Digital Distribution Revolution
Friday, September 8, 2006
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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| Digital distribution in the games industry is finally breaking into the mainstream, with companies like Warner Bros., RealNetworks, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Nintendo pursuing the unprecedented opportunities. Digital distribution involves core, casual and multiplayer games on a variety of platforms including online, mobile and consoles connected to broadband networks. This revolution has taken years to successfully implement, and impacts game developers, publishers and consumers alike. Long-term viability depends on innovative execution and the development of games titles that fit the model. This session will discuss successful business models and the most effective channels for digital distribution of casual and core games, including popular consumer sites (i.e. MSN, RealArcade), consoles, cable networks and mobile. Learn about consumer benefits, digital distribution market projections and how the games industry can leverage successes in the music industry to drive games through this revolution and to the forefront of massively adopted consumer entertainment. |
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The 4th Austin Austin Game Conference |
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September 6th - 8th,2006 |
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Austin Convention Center 500 East Cesar Chavez St Austin, 78701 |
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| The Austin Game Conference (AGC) is the definitive conference for online and networked game development, including massively multiplayer online games, casual games, online PC and console games. |
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