• Develop Keynote: GTA Creator David Jones

    03/11/2009

    Posted in: Developers, Industry

    Brighton’s 2009 Develop conference has announced that David Jones, creator of GTA and Lemmings and founder of Realtime Worlds (Crackdown) will be a keynote speaker at the event. Former keynote stars include Richard Garriott, Ken Levine, Tsutomu Kuono and Peter Molyneux.

    Of Develop, Jones said:

    Develop is the most prestigious development conference in the UK, and I’m looking forward to coming to Brighton as it’s a great opportunity to share some of my experiences of making games – both good and not so good – plus tell a few of the Realtime World’s stories to my fellow developers.

    Jones will speak on how to make a good – read: successful – game, and said he will reveal more about the planned talk closer to the conference. Still working up the rough draft, eh David?

    Develop sessions include:

    * Driving 3D TV’s Using Current Generation Consoles
    Andrew Oliver and Aaron Allport, Blitz Games
    * Online Games, Virtual Worlds and MMO’s: Raising Money and Making Money
    Paul Flanagan, Ariadne Capital
    * Usability Testing for Videogames
    Jason Avent, Disney and Graham McAllister from Sussex University
    * Gold Blend: Audio Code and Design Working Together for the Perfect Flavour
    Steve Emney & Ciaran Rooney, Disney Black Rock Studio
    * How to Staff and Manage a Flexible, Scalable Development Facility
    Simon Gardner, Climax Studios
    * How to Communicate with Artists
    Arran Green, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
    * Painting With Sound: The Future of Procedural Audio
    Andy Farnell
    * The Edge Panel: Architecture and Games
    Alex Wiltshire, Edge Magazine

    Evolve will debut on July 14 at the conference as a segment focusing on game development on new platforms like iPhones as well as the growing casual and social gaming markets. Tandem Events managing director Andy Lane said of the program:

    Tandem Event’s philosophy has always been to provide a programme that inspires today’s developers to make better games. The Develop Conference offers a relaxed setting, which people love, but it’s the quality of speakers and the opportunity to share in their experiences that really inspires our delegates. And with the line-up for both Evolve on the Tuesday and Develop on the Wednesday and Thursday already looking fantastic, I’m confident that this year’s programme will be the best yet.

    Evolve events include:

    * Panel: Meet the Social Networks
    Tom Armitage; Limvirak Chea, Google; Chris Thorpe, MySpace;
    * How Today’s Social Networks Will Change How You Make, Play and Sell Games Tomorrow
    Kristian Segerstrale, Playfish
    * Taking Your Game to iPhone and Android, Without Killing Your Team
    Chris White, Glu
    * 10 Things Nobody Tells You About Digital Distribution and Self-publishing That You Must Understand to Succeed
    Martyn Brown, Team 17
    * User Generated Content – the Legal Consequences Tahir Basheer, Sheridans
    * 20 Great Innovations in Casual, Social and Mobile Games That You Should Steal
    Stuart Dredge, Pocket Gamer

    The Develop Conference will be held in Brighton 14-16 July, 2009.

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