GCAP News, with a smattering of PAX goodness. Dear members of the Australian game development industry, Remarkably its the middle of the year already, and we are rapidly approaching the biggest games week Australia has ever seen. GCAP returns on October 28 & 29 to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), and there is much to talk about. THE 2014 THEME The theme of GCAP this year is Shakespeare Wrote Hits (with special thanks to Ron Gilbert for suggesting it to me). Well be exploring the mix of creativity and commercialisation with an understanding that the two are not mutually exclusive. The event will focus sharply on the decision making process in all disciplines with special emphasis on the methodologies, techniques and creative choices that can and have been made or applied to ensure a game has maximum appeal to its intended audience. We have an incredible, confirmed line up of international keynote and session speakers that are examples of developers that have taken creative risks that have ultimately paid off. Well be announcing them in the next few weeks and tomorrow well be sending out the local call for speakers. ONLY TWO DAYS? GCAP was originally intended to be the usual 3 day event, but we got a call for help. Unity wanted to run the inaugural UNITE conference in Australia this year, but with the MCEC completely booked out for the week, by us and PAX, that wasnt going to happen. Given most of the local developers use Unity, the opportunity was too good to pass so we offered one of the GCAP days. UNITE will precede GCAP on Monday, October 27. TICKETING GCAP remains one of the most affordable professional conferences around, and that wont be changing this year. What will be changing are the packages well be offering you. We have secured 3 Day Passes to PAX Australia and you will have the option of booking for both GCAP and PAX when tickets are made available at the start of August. Given the PAX passes are sold out, these tickets will be made available to the Australian game development industry first. Thats it for now. Expect to see the call for speakers tomorrow and more GCAP news in the very near future.lo
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:30:12 +0000
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