Archive 2003 - Schedule & Speaker Presentations

Saturday 22 November 2003

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Saturday 22 November 2003 (Sessions marked with an asterisk [*] are Art specific)
Time	Track	Presenter	Session Title (Click links on the titles to view Speakers' Presentations)
0900 hours	Keynote	Moderator: Jason Della Rocca, IGDA Panelists: Adam Lancman, Atari Melbourne Noah Falstein, The Inspiracy Robert Walsh, Krome Studios Mark Angeli, Tantalus Interactive	Only formula, license driven blockbusters need apply. Is the game industry turning into Hollywood? Is this a good or bad thing?
1000 hours	Morning Tea
1030 hours	Art and Development*	Paul Steed, Microsoft - Xbox	Building a Digital Goddess*
1030 hours	Platform Specific	Will Damon, Intel	Pentium® 4 Processor Optimisations in DirectX 9.0
1030 hours	General Design	Sheri Graner Ray, Sony Online Entertainment	Gender Inclusive Game Design - Expanding the Market
1030 hours	Business Development	Jin-Ho Lee (Actoz Soft), Seung-Woo Choi (Nexon Corporation), Seung Rhee (CCR Inc) & Moohak Sohn (Gravity Corp)	Games At Your Finger Tips
1030 hours	Education	Neil Boyd & Sebastian Perri, Academy of Interactive Entertainment	'Learning by Doing' - Game Development at AIE
1135 hours	Art and Development*	Aladar Apponyi (Micro Forté) & Jason Morris (Micro Forté)	3D Trickery - from Polygon to Texture *
1135 hours	Art and Development	Scott Selfon, Microsoft - Xbox	Developing a Practical Interactive Audio Engine
1135 hours	Platform Specific	Dean Farmer, Infinite Interactive	Creating the AI that People Want
1135 hours	General Design	Penny Drennan, University of Queensland	Using Conversational Agents to Improve Interactions betwen Players and NPCs
1135 hours	Business Development	Tasos Kaiafas, Intel	Choosing the Right Platform - A Comprehensive Comparison of the PC, Console and Handheld Markets
1135 hours	Education	Facilitator: Ross Symons (Bullant Studios) Panelists: Chen-Po Sun (University of Melbourne), Matthew Riggall (University of Melbourne), Adam Matera (Qantm) & Cheryl Kiraly (Academy of Interactive Entertainment)	Bridging the Gap
1235 hours	Lunch
1335 hours	Art and Development*	Mike Hollands, Act 3 Animation	The Future of Game Cinematics. Pre-Rendered Versus In-Game.*
1335 hours	Art and Development	Facilitator: Thuyen Nguyen, Atari Melbourne House Panelists: Seamus Blackley (Capital Entertainment Group), Sheri Graner Ray (Sony Online Entertainment) & Mark Angeli (Tantalus Interactive)	Our Gameplay is in Another Castle
1335 hours	Platform Specific	Unsigned Games (Indie) finalists	Pitch'n Indies
1335 hours	General Design	Guennadi Riguer, ATI Technologies	The Dark Secrets of Shader Development
1335 hours	Business Development	Facilitator: David Rosenbaum (Law Offices of David Rosenbaum) Panelists: Robert Walsh (Krome Studios) & Lee Jacobson (Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.)	Understanding The Developer-Publisher Relationship and the Publishing Agreement Panel Discussion Outline (pdf format)
1335 hours	Education	Dan Miller & Thomas Magill, Academy of Interactive Entertainment	Fast Track into Games
1440 hours	Art and Development*	Mark Terrano, Microsoft - Xbox	Lessons from Life: Designing More Immersive Games*
1440 hours	Platform Specific	Tony Albrecht, RatBag Pty Ltd	Blending, Blurring and Swizzling: Special Effects on the PS2
1440 hours	General Design	Jay Kyburz, Irrational Games	Design Leads Roundtable
1440 hours	Business Development	Mario Wynands, Sidhe Interactive	Building a Game Development Studio Today : Stuff you Need to Know! - Format workshop
1440 hours	Education	Andrew Stapleton, Curtin University of Technology	Why Video Games are Cool and School Sucks Conference Paper (pdf format)
1540 hours	Afternoon Tea
1610 hours	Keynote	Phil Harrison - Executive Vice President, Development, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe	The One Hundredth Million Dollar Game - Future Challenge of Game Development
1710 hours	Award Presentation - Presentation of Sony Scholarship Prize
1730 hours	PlayStation 2 Cocktail Party
1900 hours	Telconian Tucker Conference Dinner

Thursday 20 Nov 2003 • Friday 21 Nov 2003 • Saturday 22 Nov 2003 • Sunday 23 Nov 2003