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Games Connect Asia Pacific 2018 The Walls We've Built Ourselves

8:00am AEDT

Registration and Morning Tea Main Foyer

9:00am AEDT

Opening Keynote PLENARY 2 - GROUND FLOORLeighton Gray

10:30am AEDT

Finding Your Audience Discussion Room (203)Gabriella Lowgren • Henry Fong • Matt Hall • Sophie Rossetti • Ken Wong • Yodo1 Creativity Can Compete: Marrying Commercial Value and Artistic Vision ROOM 209Emily D'Elia Implementing Best-Practice Quality Assurance for Small Teams ROOM 211Jason Imms Lessons in Technomancy: Using code generation in a dynamic data system to build flexible and stable games fast. ROOM 204Anna Tito Leveraging your Unity skills beyond the gaming industry: an open field of opportunities THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Joyce Law • Sebastien Thevenet • Unity One Game at a Time: The First 5 Years of an Indie Studio ROOM 207Blair Leggett • Jean Leggett

11:30am AEDT

Your Marketing Guide: Targeting press, players and content creators Discussion Room (203)Lauren Clinnick An Asset Worth a Thousand Words: Building Dynamic and Reusable Content ROOM 209Damon Reece Fireside Chat: Kevin Penkin talks to Dan Golding Fireside Room 208Dan Golding • Kevin Penkin Hire Intelligence: Successful Strategies to Grow Your Company THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Philip Mayes I Know Kung Fu - The State of Serious Games and Emerging Technology ROOM 207Emre Deniz Project Scalability with Unreal Engine 4 ROOM 210Chris Murphy • David Stelzer • Epic Games What's Going on in the (Game) World According to Steam? ROOM 211Sean Jenkin • Kristian Miller Your Studio Boo & You: An Introduction To Studio Culture Through The Lens Of A Dating Show ROOM 204Meredith Hall

12:30pm AEDT

Lunch TBA

1:30pm AEDT

So You (Or Someone Else) Decided You're A Producer Discussion Room (203)Amy Dallas • Cass Gray • Meredith Hall • Lisy Kane • Jair McBain • Joe Park • Kamina Vincent Game Hugs Podcast: Leighton Gray talks to Jason Imms Fireside Room 208Jason Imms • Leighton Gray In the Business of Games: Finding the Revenue Model of Tomorrow THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Luke Henry • LDB Accountants Let the Player be the Performer ROOM 204Ryan Roth Scaling Web Services for Free-to-Play ROOM 207Luis Van Slageren This Business of Art: Strategies for Long Term Success ROOM 210Kim Forrest • Philip Mayes User Reviews: Who, Why and OH GOD WHAT'S HAPPENING?! ROOM 211Darcy Smith UX Design: The Glue That Binds (Lessons learnt from The Sims FreePlay & Need For Speed: NL) ROOM 209Anna Brandberg

2:30pm AEDT

Indies Don't Starve Discussion Room (203)Kathleen Yin • Jack Gillespie • Nico King BoomBox - Audio Workflows Inspired by Constraints ROOM 207Jeff Van Dyke • Zander Hulme Exploring God of War's Level Design ROOM 210Rob Davis • Film Victoria From There and Back Again! Porting from Mobile to Console, and Back Again ROOM 211Hadleigh Barton-Ancliffe Mentorship: Myths & Mistakes THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Ally McLean Porting your Thoughts: A Guide to Breaking down Communication Barriers ROOM 204Jess Watson • Amos Wolfe UXR Workshop - User testing in under an hour ROOM 209Anna Brandberg • Firemonkeys

3:30pm AEDT

Afternoon Tea TBA

4:00pm AEDT

Understanding Asia Discussion Room (203)Henry Fong • Sean Jenkin 2D or not 2D - Creating 2D Characters in a 3D World ROOM 209Tessa Monash Accessible Player Experience (APX): A new approach to game accessibility ROOM 210MARK BARLET Building for Live Service: What to do if you’re planning to run a marathon (AKA finding a sustainable core loop) ROOM 204Amanda Schofield • Firemonkeys Fireside: Nick Suttner talks to Tim Best Fireside Room 208Tim Best • Nick Suttner Overcoming Your Biases to Be an Effective Ally THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Jen MacLean To Serve (For) Human Minds ROOM 211Matt MacLean • Film Victoria Unity Tech for Indies: Less Bugs, More Gameplay ROOM 207Marko Grgic

5:00pm AEDT

Transcending entertainment: combining commercial games with serious goals Discussion Room (203)Kathleen Yin • Matthew Lee • Attila Szantner Don’t let overwhelming success overwhelm you: Scaling to millions with PlayFab ROOM 211Brendan Vanous • Microsoft Evidence-Based Mental Health: Build Your Inner Walls ROOM 210Dr. Jennifer Hazel Game Hugs Podcast: Ally McLean talks to Jason Imms Fireside Room 208Jason Imms • Ally McLean How to Sell Out: An Indie's Guide to MerchandiseHow to Sell Out: An Indie's Guide to Merchandise THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Meredith Hall • Nicholas McDonnell Inflation - The Quest to Manage The Sims FreePlay's Economy ROOM 209Mavis Chan Rami Ismael is going to say something here. We don't know what, but it's Rami so.... ROOM 207Rami Ismael Too Clever Isn't Fun - Creating Believable and Satisfying AI Adversaries ROOM 204Andrew Rowse

8:30am AEDT

Registration and Morning Tea TBA

9:30am AEDT

Developer Lightning Talks PlanaryTony Albrecht • Saf Davidson • Rob Davis • Kate Edwards • Keith Fuller • Jean Leggett • Nick Suttner • Anna Tito

10:30am AEDT

The Future of Game Distribution & the Impact to Indies Discussion Room (203)Jen MacLean • Henry Fong • Sean Jenkin • Chris Wright Cards Against People Mismanagement ROOM 210Emilie Poissenot Clone-nite Unknown: Intellectual Property in Games THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Matt Lee Design of Senses: What Game Design Can Learn From Theatre ROOM 204David Harris Drawing Heaps of Objects on Console, Fast, as an Indie ROOM 209Justin Whitfort Games for Military? Are you Serious? ROOM 207Ryan Stephenson We Could Let Silicon Valley Help Us Fix Game Dev. But Will We? ROOM 211Keith Fuller • Film Victoria

11:30am AEDT

Sensitive Subjects in Serious Games Discussion Room (203)Jean Leggett • Gabriella Lowgren • Film Victoria A Step by Step Guide to Ads for your Game: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Beyond! ROOM 204Katie Stegs Delete Videogames THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Louie Roots Dismembering 'The Forest' ROOM 209Trevor Dikes Fortifying your Future: Building the Fortification for Advocy ROOM 211Kate Edwards Optimising Graphics for Mobile Devices in Unity ROOM 207Brian Akira Su Tips From the Trenches: How Make Contracting More Profitable and Less Painful ROOM 210Amy Dallas

12:30pm AEDT

Lunch TBA

1:30pm AEDT

The Bridge Between: Serious Games Industry Panel Discussion Room (203)Adrian Webb • Emre Deniz • Matthew Dyet • Jessica Gates • Ally McLean • Carolyn Mee Arrr-chitecting Games and Game Teams: What We Can Learn From Actual Pirates ROOM 210Paris Buttfield-Addison Bringing Fortnite Battle Royale to Android and iOS ROOM 204Jack Porter • Epic Games Build Your Workforce: Procedural Pipelines for Small Teams ROOM 211Mike Blackney Delivering Their Vision ROOM 209Dean Walshe Fireside Chat: Rhianna Pratchett talks to Morgan Jaffit Fireside Room 208Morgan Jaffit • Rhianna Pratchett Sherlock It Up: Building The Gaps In Your Story ROOM 207Saf Davidson • Film Victoria You (Can) Ask That: Transgender Games Edition THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Sav Ferguson • Charlie Francis Cassidy • Fae Daunt • Snow McNally • Damon Reece

2:30pm AEDT

Mechanical Royalties: Pay Day Discussion Room (203)Fabian Malabello • Greg Morrow • Mark Richardson • Kathryn Stirling A Thousand Cuts Down to 5 (How to Keep Unity's Drawcalls and Other Bottlenecks in Check) ROOM 209Kieron Lord Charlie Red - Founding An Art Collective THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Ruth Bosch Creating Emotional Engagement Through Narrative and Game Design ROOM 207Melanie Taylor Fireside Chat: Matt MaClean Talks to Darcy Smith Fireside Room 208Darcy Smith • Matt MacLean Pixels and Words: Lessons in Building Interactive Narrative Systems ROOM 210Blair Leggett • Anna Tito Platforms Are People Too: The Importance of Finding Your Champion ROOM 211Nick Suttner • Film Victoria Procedural Generation by Automating Blender ROOM 204Jon Manning

3:30pm AEDT

Afternoon Tea TBA

4:00pm AEDT

Government Use Games Too Discussion Room (203)Adrian Webb • Michael Kuiper • Marko Matosevic • Lynette Reeves • Melissa Stubbings AR Streaming: Spectating of the Future ROOM 210Andrew Glover • Luke Ledwich • Wargaming Game Development Architecture Roundtable THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ROOM (205)Luis Van Slageren • Anna Tito Game Hugs Podcast: Louie Roots talks to Jason Imms Fireside Room 208Jason Imms • Louie Roots Serious Can Be Fun: Exoplanets in EVE ROOM 207Attila Szantner So you're trying to support a medium sized studio... ROOM 209Jack Knobel

5:15pm AEDT

Closing Keynote PlanaryMorgan Jaffit • Ally McLean • Ken Wong