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GAMEJAM - SYDNEY'S FREE IGNITE-STYLE GAMES EVENT

• ADMISSION: Free! LOCATION: AFTRS building at the Entertainment Quarter, 130 Bent St. Moore Park (next door to Fox Studios)
• WHEN: Saturday 1st November 2008
• WHO: YOU'RE the stars, but we will have some cool folk like Dan Graf (Dr D Studios), Joe Velikovsky (Jumper and Looney Toons games), Gary Hayes (Australia's lead Second Life Creator) and Guy Gadney (AIMIA President and MMOG developer)

Click Here To tell us your coming along AND/OR talk title and suggested slot

• Rapid ideas development seminar with awards for best pitch
• Demo, interact and learn & meet F2F with like minded people, passionate about game/worlds
• Intense show'n'tells, pitches, discussions and lots of interaction
• Show everyone YOUR latest ideas for games and virtual worlds

Demos around the areas: 5 machine big screen LAN of TeamFortress2, FarCry2 on PS3, Braid on XBox360, Big Screen Crysis, DeBlob on Wii, Twinity, Portal, Various game cinematics, 3 screen flight sim and lots more

OPEN TALKS & SCHEDULE

• The talks will be about anything to do with
  • developing for or playing with console or pc games
  • online games or creating and using virtual worlds
  • games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, ai etc etc:
  • educational, fun or just plain 'wtf'!.
• The user or creator angle is fine - just make sure it is not too geeky or too fanzy!
• Please book yourself an 8 minute talk slot - click the registration LINK here and we will put you in!

SCHEDULE

• 10:00 - Intros from Peter Giles (Head of DigiMedia at AFTRS) MC Gary Hayes (Director LAMP & Head Virtual Worlds TPF)
• 10:05 - NAME: Joe Velikovsky - TALK TITLE: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love Adapting my Movie into a Videogame
• 10:25 - NAME: Bruce Moyle (via Vid Skype from Tas) - TALK TITLE: Welcome to the Machine
• 10:40 - NAME: Ian Brown - TALK TITLE: Portal, How to Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
• 10:50 - NAME: Richard James Allen & Karen Pearlman (The Physical TV Company) - TALK TITLE: You Are Going To Die
• 11:00 - NAME: Peter Giles - TALK TITLE: School's Out for Gamers - Future of Game Education
• 11:10 - NAME: Marigo Raftopoulos - TALK TITLE: Galapagos: Serious Game for Serious Business
• 11:20 - NAME: Michela Ledwidge - TALK TITLE: MOD the Movies!
• 11:35 - NAME: Gary Hayes - TALK TITLE: Reality & Pleasure - State of Play of Blended Real Life, TV and Game Worlds
• 11:45 - NAME: Guy Gadney - TALK TITLE: The Life of an MMORPG – The story of Diaspora
• 12:00 - NAME: Ben Phelan - TALK TITLE: Multiplayer AJAX Games
• 12:10 - Open Slots & buffer plus demos
• 12:30 - LUNCH BREAK (including LAN game competition in Studio 3)
• 01:30 - NAME: Dan Graf - TALK TITLE: Story and Game, Chalk and Cheese?
• 01:50 - NAME: Brett Robertson - TALK TITLE: The Future of Gaming Tech!
• 02:00 - NAME: Janine Cahill - TALK TITLE: Serious Pervasion: Learning Games All Around - Using Time, Place, Space, Connection, Exploration
• 02:15 - GAMES RAPID DEV AND PITCH LAB
• 03:00 - Open Pitch Sessions 2-3 minutes each, with Feedback Judging Panel (Ian Brown, Joe Velikovsky, Gary Hayes, Dan Graf)
• 03:45 - Awards for Best Pitches & tasty give'aways (DVDs, Games etc:)
• 04:00 - Wrap & demos until 4.30

BEING FREE TO EXCHANGE IDEAS - LEGAL AGREEMENT NOTE

Thanks to Joe Velikovsky and Caroline Verge for this bespoke CDA

AGREEMENT OF ATTENDANCE: Important Note - To protect your intellectual property, it is a condition of your attendance at this free AFTRS event that you treat all projects presented as commercial-in-confidence. This means that you must not disclose any information about any project (including game, film, and TV concepts, story content, gameplay mechanics and related content and business information) to external parties. This agreement ensures that all attendees may feel free to pitch, workshop and discuss their ideas without risk or fear of intellectual property theft. You also hereby acknowledge that attendees may have similar projects in development.

It is also a condition of attending, that all attendees may later use/integrate any ideas and suggestions given by anyone during the day of the workshop into their project/s without any expectation of payment or credit. This ensures ideas can be freely workshopped without fear of copyright / moral rights claims or lawsuits. The Gamejam event both promotes and functions on industry goodwill and generosity.

INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER STUFF

• ITS EASY! There are a total of 17 ten minute slots for you to give us a great talk/demo/show tell - click the registration button above and send us in your talk title and ideal slot
• TIME LIMIT: We are happy for anyone to present for maximum of 8 minutes (plus 2 q&a)
• GEAR: We will have a dedicated mac & pc presentation for you to put your dongles in! But if you want please bring laptops with VGA or adapters or powerpoint, keynotes, video file or image batches in numbers -
• CAPTURE: We will record all talks and will do a fun compilation only...the full talks will only be published with your consent given on the day