Hosted by our MC – Rick Stemm!!
Day One
Thursday 1st May
8am – 9am
Registration – check in and pick up your Lanyard on level 2, Te Auaha
9am – 9.15am
Welcome and Housekeeping – with our MC Rick Stemm!!
9.15am – 10am
KEYNOTE – Sam Cook
10am – 10.30am : MORNING TEA
10.30am – 11am
All fun and Game Jams
Sami Habib – Big Adventure
CULTURE
11am – 11.30am
Giving Your Players Goosebumps: The Game Dev’s Guide to the Orchestra
Sai Natarajan
AUDIO
11.30am – 12noon
The Joy of Digital Ruins and Ludo-Archaeology
Jacob Cone – University of Otago
GAME DESIGN
12noon – 1pm : LUNCH
1pm – 1.45pm
Strange Brains, Stormy World: the Neuroscience of Creative Divergence
Colin Rowsell – Man on Fire
SCIENCE AND BUSINESS
1.45pm – 2pm
Immersive Moments of Wonder
Matt Halford – Fractal Mind Studios
GAME DESIGN
2pm – 2.30pm
ADHD In the Workplace
Stephen Post – VOID Interactive
CULTURE
2.30pm – 3pm
Short Stories and Helpful Tips on Debugging Code
James Veugelaers – Wētā Workshop
PROGRAMMING
3pm – 3.30pm : AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm – 4.15pm
Storm Raiders: Passion Project to Passion Product
Paul Tobin & Dane Madgwick – Arkus Games
ART
4.15pm – 4.30pm
Finding the joy in game design through the eyes of rangatahi
Lilian Hilde-Tobin – Tūhura Tech
GAME DESIGN
4.30pm – 5pm
Dealing Well with Difficult Feedback
Anna and Sam Barham – Balancing Monkey Games Limited
PRODUCTION/MANAGEMENT
6.30pm – 10pm
Treat ‘n’ Greet
Fishcube Gallery
111 Dixon St, Te Aro,
Wellington 6011
Day Two
Friday 2nd May
8am – 9am
Registration – check in and pick up your Lanyard on level 2, Te Auaha
9am – 9.15am
Welcome and Housekeeping – with our MC Rick Stemm!!
9.15am – 9.45am
Play the Part: What LARP Teaches Us About Player-Driven Storytelling
Sarah Daymond – PiPok
NARRATIVE
9.45am – 10am
Candles in the Darkness
Matthew Heales
CULTURE
10am – 10.30am : MORNING TEA
10.30am – 11am
Release your Game Music like a Music Label!
Broghan Blackshaw – Burn my Records
AUDIO
11am – 11.30am
Rad Buttons: A breakdown of cool UI
Jonathan Caridia
ART
11.30am – 12noon
Players – The Fuel to My Passion Flame
Larisa Isava – PikPok
CULTURE
12noon – 1pm : LUNCH
1pm – 1.45pm
Sparking Joy in Level Design: World Building with Procedural Content Generation
Chris Murphy – Epic Games
GAME DESIGN
1.45pm – 2.15pm
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Harry Rex
TECHNOLOGIES
2.15pm – 2.30pm
A love letter to photomodes
Tana Tanoi – Dinosaur Polo Club
GAME DESIGN
2.30pm – 3pm
One-Liners to Make A Snap!
Samara-Jade Sendek – Mercenary
GAME DESIGN
3pm – 3.30pm : AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm – 4pm
Designing a joyful game for rehabilitation
Asli Tece Bayrak – Media Design School
GAME DESIGN
4pm – 4.15pm
Decoding CODE NZ- A Brief View of Industry Development
Vee Pendergast – CODE NZ
INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
4.15pm – 5pm
Taikawa Tamati-Elliffe – KEYNOTE
5pm
Closing notes
