Athens Games Festival 2017 στο Εκθεσιακό Κέντρο της Helexpo
Το πρώτο Athens Games Festival έρχεται!
Θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 28 και 29 Οκτωβρίου 2017, στο Εκθεσιακό Κέντρο της Helexpo, στο Μαρούσι. 3.500 τετραγωνικά μέτρα θα είναι αφιερωμένα στο ψηφιακό παιχνίδι! Θα είναι ακόμα αφιερωμένο στην προσέλκυση επενδύσεων. Την προώθηση του ελληνικού video game και την ανάπτυξη του ανταγωνιστικού κλάδου του video game development. Θα γίνει με τη συμμετοχή Ελλήνων και ξένων game developers, ερευνητών, ακαδημαϊκών, εκδοτών και δημοσιογράφων.
Athens Games Festival
Οι επισκέπτες θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να συμμετέχουν, να δουν και να ακούσουν:
- Παρουσιάσεις από σημαντικούς ανθρώπους της παγκόσμιας βιομηχανίας gaming.
- Συναντήσεις με στελέχη σημαντικών διεθνών εταιριών του χώρου.
- Εκθέτες από την Ελλάδα, την Κύπρο και άλλες χώρες.
- Επιχειρηματικές συναντήσεις μέσα από την πλατφόρμα του Pitch and Match αλλά και εκδηλώσεις όπως το Athens Games Festival Party.
- Διαγωνισμούς για την ανάδειξη νέων ταλέντων στο χώρο του game industry όπως το Nordic Game Discovery Contest.
Game Art Collection
Ακόμη, κατά τη διάρκεια του Athens Games Festival θα διεξαχθεί για δεύτερη συνεχόμενη χρονιά το Game Art Collection (GAC).
Καλλιτέχνες που δραστηριοποιούνται στο χώρο της ανάπτυξης ψηφιακών παιχνιδιών, θα συμμετάσχουν σε μια έκθεση. Η έκθεση σκοπό έχει να αναδείξει το ταλέντο Ελλήνων και ξένων 2D artists και μουσικών. Το θέμα της οι Υπερήρωες (superheroes) της Ελλάδας!
Διοργάνωση
Το Athens Games Festival διοργανώνεται από τη Γενική Γραμματεία Ενημέρωσης και Επικοινωνίας. Του Υπουργείου Ψηφιακής Πολιτικής, Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Ενημέρωσης (http://www.media.gov.gr). Γίνεται σε συνεργασία το White Nights Conference (http://wnconf.com).
Οι ομιλίες θα γίνουν στα Αγγλικά είναι με ελεύθερη είσοδο και για την παρακολούθηση πρέπει να εγγραφείτε. Οδηγίες για την εγγραφή θα βρείτε στην επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του φεστιβάλ https://athensgamesfestival.gr .
Το πρόγραμμα για την Κυριακή 29/10/2017
| Time | Speaker | Title | Description | Where |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Marily Mitropoulou, App Partnerships Manager & Rami Jawhar, VR, Mindfulness & Gaming Partnerships, Google | Google Your Way to the Top of the Game | The games industry is becoming more sophisticated as the technology, players and community participation diversifies. You might be looking to drive better ways to engage high-value users. Or thinking how to best monetize your user base. Perhaps you’re thinking how to break into the VR/AR space. Come learn how Google’s 360 approach to working with game developers will help you be on top of the game. | Conference Hall |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Liz Mercuri, Educational Evangelist, Unity | An Introduction To Unity Optimisation | This session gives an insight into the performance optimisation of Unity projects. The talk begins with an overview of how to use helpful Unity features such as the Statistics Panel, Profiler and Frame Debugger. The talk wraps up by sharing a few development tips and tricks for optimisation. | Conference Hall |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Anastasios Katopodis, Producer, Wargaming | Mobile Games: From Demo To Live Ops | A walk through some best practices and learnings from the early demo and concept stages of a game all the way to release and live operations. What to anticipate and prepare for, what to avoid and how to deal with problems along the way. Useful tips and tricks for having a good night sleep even if your game fails to be a runaway hit. | Conference Hall |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Tsahi Liberman, Tiltan College | Study & Develop games in the Holy Land – Based on true miracles! | Tsahi Liberman is the Head of Game Design & Development Department of Tiltan College / תילתן – המכללה לעיצוב ולתקשורת חזותית and he will talk about studying & developing games in the Holy Land. Israel, land of innovation, has built quickly but firmly an interesting industry of gaming, through values of sharing knowledge, cooperating and developing fast prototypes, but mainly by identifying quickly where our strengths lay and use them to build great games. This talk will be based on true characters, success stories and glorious fails! | Coffee & Talk Area |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Konstantinos Sakellariou, Client Solutions Manager EMEA, Facebook | Learn How To Successfully Promote Your PC / Console Games Through Facebook | Find out all the tips on to successfully promote your Games through Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network in our workshop . Learn through case studies how some of the biggest publishers managed to discover and grow their audience through FB marketing Solutions. Discover all the latest Facebook trends and products to stay ahead of the curve. | Conference Hall |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Sabrina Carmona, Lead Producer, King | Production And Data | This talk will cover some examples on how useful can be to use Data-Driven Decisions to Impact the Production of your Game, and how can you either fail fast or iterate to improve your game before launching it. | Conference Hall |
| 16:00-17:00 | Costis Papatheodorou, Thanos Tsilis, Vicky Fysika | Game Art session (Moderator: Elina Roinioti) | Should we consider games as a form of art? Can we compare games with more traditional types of art like painting or music composing? In this session, Costis, Thanos and Vicky, our Game Art Collection committee, will talk about game grahics and music composing in games, will share with us their experience while working in game studios and will give us some insights about current industry trends. (The session will be conducted in Greek) |
Coffee & Talk Area |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Valentin Merzlikin, Developer Relations, Creative Mobile | Developers And Publishers: A View From The Other Side | Now, with Steam, App Store and Google Play, why do game developers need publishers? What can a publisher do for game developer, mobile or PC? Valentin will introduce game publishing business to the audience. Also, he will share a few helpful tricks for developers. | Conference Hall |
| 17:30- 18:00 | Irina Tripapina, Head Of International Business Development, Mail.Ru Group | 5 Reasons To Bring Your Game To Russia | Get market insights from the largest Russian publisher – Mail.Ru Group. The owner of domestic social networks VK.com (Vkontakte) and OK.ru (Odnoklassniki) will share market opportunities for global publishers, localization insights and users’ behavior. You will learn which game categories are driving the app economy and which global publishers already have succeeded here. You will get an understanding why you have to bring your app to the Russian market, how you can benefit from 140 million users and how to make it right. | Conference Hall |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Nikos Pappas, Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media | Closing Ceremony | Conference Hall | |
| 18:30-19:30 | Hamac Mobile Games Contest | Conference Hall |