"Gaming and Storytelling"

The "Gaming and Storytelling" theme consisted of business and technical course – find out more and view the presentations below:

The Business Course

Two interactive, packed days aimed at business development, management and marketing orientated people within the 'games' arena, who want to product even more creative and interesting games.

day one: Gaming and storytelling everywhere

Gaming and storytelling everywhere
Mika Tuomola, Artistic Director, Crucible Studio. view biography

An introduction to creative game and content design approaches from the point of view of story and successful user/community experience design.

Get the flavour of this interactive business workshop by reading through the course material:
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'I feel today has been an invaluable experience that I can build upon. '

"Gaming and Storytelling", Paris attendee

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day two: Evolution towards interactive applications

Introduction - Mobile Games: a market in the full phase of growth
Guillaume Campion, Orange France

Find out more about the state of this growing market: who are the consumers? What are the key success factors, and what is the market potential?

There is no presentation for this session.

'It is good to know Orange is taking an active interest in the developers of mobile games.'

Thomas Dowling, Hands on

Evolution towards interactive applications
Kalle Luukkainen, Nokia. view biography

A look at how the development of games will be revolutionized with the evolution of technology towards IP based communications.

What will the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) bring to the development of interactive peer-2-peer or peer-2-many gaming?
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For the love of the game - putting fan culture at the heart of gamecraft
Catherine Warren, President, Fan Trust Entertainment Strategies. view biography

Are the worlds of developer and fan converging? As gamers become increasingly vocal and even generate revenue from games, what can creators and corporations learn from fan forums and fan economies? As audience demands become increasingly interactive, how are the worlds of games and other entertainment morphing?

There is no presentation for this session.

Making the most of mobile devices for gaming
Jussi Holopainen, Head of Games Design Group, Nokia Research Centre. view biography

Small screen sizes, cumbersome user interfaces, and widely varying use situations limit the suitability of popular console and PC game types, such as fast paced 3D-shooters, for mobile phones. However, mobile phones are personal, trusted devices mainly used for social interaction.

Taking these characteristics into account enables the game designers to exploit the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of the platform in order to create games which would be impossible on other platforms.

A set of game design principles and techniques exploiting the characteristics will be presented.
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The Technical Course

Two full days for the serious games coders… the experienced developers with a keen interest in developing games applications using Java ™ ME for Nokia platforms; Game programming, Games API, Bluetooth API, Creating 3D worlds, Mobile 3D API, Animating 3D objects, and Sounds and tones.

The trainer for these days was Chris O'Connor of Teleca (view biography).

'Great to know Nokia / Orange are so willing to help us get the most out
of their handsets.'

Richard Wilson, Hands on

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