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Talk: Chuchel - Story of the Development

Four years of development of to this unknown day project of Amanita Design studio - Churches - has been inspiring by Botanicula in many interesting ways. Such ways that will lead us to a shocking revelation at the end!

Talk: This War of Mine - 2 Years After the Release

Where did we go with the title? What has been a success in our opinion, and where we have failed? Here's the big summary of This War of Mine almost two years after the release, including secret you may not hear if you're not here!

Talk: From Dream to Dream Job: How to Get a Job in the Games Industry

We all have a dream job. But how do we actually get it? Skill, passion and dedication are a good start, but this is not enough. It’s also about asking the right questions, meeting the right people and grasping an opportunity by the forelock when it’s at hand. This talk teaches you how to appear on recruiter’s radars and how to become a top candidate.

Talk: Finding your Oasis in the Industry Jungle

Developing and releasing your first game is hard enough, but as an indie developer I talk about the challenges of finding your niche and building a structure designed to ensure sustainability.

Talk: Conquering the Large-Scale Environments of Arma and DayZ

Creating large-scale, authentic and consistent landscape environments for milsim and survival games requires both unique mindset and employment of methods uncommon in the gaming industry. The talk overviews the design challenges involved and introduces the methods of making the environment of Arma mil-sim series and DayZ survival MMO.

Talk: Prototyping new project

Techniques and examples of prototyping and iteration on development of a new multiplayer shooter project. Including a brief introduction to Bohemia Interactive and its new approach to interesting gameplay prototypes.

Talk: Prototyping new project

Techniques and examples of prototyping and iteration on development of a new multiplayer shooter project. Including a brief introduction to Bohemia Interactive and its new approach to interesting gameplay prototypes.

Talk: Arma 3: Six Years in the Trenches

From a standalone expansion to full-fledged military platform, Arma 3 development is a roller-coaster story. This tale contains aliens, time shifting, pioneering Early Access, threat of cancelling the project and a successful Steam release with a years-long platform support. The goal of this speech is to share the experience gained and show specific examples to make life easier for other developers.

Talk: Do's and Don'ts of Soft-launching a Game

Skipping a soft launch in 2016 is suicide. It’s all about risk reduction and understanding how your game performs in a real world. But how to run the soft launch if you haven't done it before and if you have a limited budget? Just in the last 12 months Peter ran 6 of them and collected actionable insights, data and practical tips which will help you to get the most from this critical phase.

Talk: Challenges of Porting Traditional Gaming Experience to VR

The presentation will be performed entirely in VR showcasing biggest problems during VR development of our freshly released PSVR title called Bound. Such topics like nausea free camera, cutscenes, optimizations and general design tips will be covered. I will also talk about experiences in extending the game for PS4 PRO.

Talk: RPG Systems and How to Do Them

Are you designing an RPG game? How strong should the fireball be at level five? Is the magician weak at first, but turning into walking armageddon later? Should the strength develop as the player is manipulating with heavy items? All those questions with no simple answer. How to design an RPG system, what not to do and what to be afraid of. Plus all the painfull experiences from manipulating all these abstract elements into a realistic game.

Talk: How We Were Shooting the Film Kingdom Come

RPG Kingdom Come will include over three hours of animated cutscenes in which there are more than fifty actors. We will go through the process of their creation from the planning stage followed by over a month long shooting to the final animation of mimics and lightings.

Talk: How We Started Game Project From University, and How It Rocks

The lecture will be about our upcoming project Fishing Adventure. How we started the project and selcted the idea? Let's see how we tackled the challanges in game development in a small scale.

Talk: A Technological View on Modern UI in Games

We will take a look at how we can make the user interface quickly and efficiently. We will go through the basic patterns, their history and use. On specific examples, we will show how to create, test and utilize modern technologies to create UI.

Talk: How to Present Your Virtual Reality Game Through a Boring 2D Medium

Mixed reality is the hottest topic when it comes to showing off how a player can interact with the virtual world, which in turn is hard to present with a traditional first person camera. My presentation will give you information about what hardware and software would you need, best practices, and how to overcome the mistakes we encountered during our experience.

Talk: How We Became Crazy From Developing Multi-platform Native Plugin For Unity

What are the challenges and difficulties in creating a low-level multi-platform plug-in for Unity 3D engine? What does it take to use C++ and OpenGL in Unity plug-in? What kind of problems can you expect? We will share our experience and our solution of these problems on the example of our plug-in for usage of 2D vector animations in Unity.

Talk: Fabulous Journey From Heretic Kingdoms to Vikings and Back

Fasten your seatbelts and join our exciting journey from the world of Heretic Kingdoms to freezing lands of Midgard and even beyond. Learn more about Vikings: Wolves of Midgard - an upcoming action RPG rising from the ashes of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms to challenge domain long ruled by a single undefeated champion. Can Vikings challenge the biggest action RPG?

Talk: OPPIK Grants for Game Industry

This talk focuses on an introduction to currently opened Czech ICT grant programs and grant programs for common services and Marketing in which may successfully apply also game industry companies, weather it's for labor costs, levies, investments or participation on foreign fairs and conferences as long as the company is situated outside the Prague city.

Talk: Scripting a Game Mechanics

The workshop will show on an easy-to-understand example how the technology given by programmers meets assets provided by artists and ideas of designers into a nightmare for the scripter that should piece it all together. We will see some scripts that are used in the game and how they evolved during development.

Talk: Overview of the New Space Engineers Rendering Pipeline

How to efficiently render huge amounts of objects in sandbox building game and still maintain interactive frame rates. We will talk about multithreaded rendering, instancing, occlusion culling and compute shaders. How to setup the pipeline for getting the best out of the CPU and GPU parallelization.

Talk: Reviving a Dying Game

Sometimes a game is not doing so well. There can be many reasons for a game doing poorly, and in this talk we will reflect on the analysis and revival process of Medieval Engineers.

Talk: Advanced Mixed Reality in Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope

Building on existing mixed reality techniques, we went a step ahead and put the player's video into the game itself, improving both performance and appearance in the process. Doing so we have developed some new techniques for solving camera calibration and video latency issues that we wish to share with the world. Recentl launched in Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope!

Talk: Microsoft Technologies for Game Development – Present and Future

Talk: Game startup Dreams Crash Into the Wall of Reality

To find a company and succeed with own projects is most probably THE dream of many game industry professionals. Starting conditions are pretty cool: great and experienced team, cool project pitch, solid market research, ... but what's the true reality after one and half year and what are the key learnings? The talk focuses on numerous challenges: building team, company values vs. rules, decision making, fails and how to fix them and finally game conceptualisation vs. reality.

Talk: UNKILLED analytics case study

How can data help you create a better game? How can analytics be leveraged within your studio? We'll be trying to answer these questions and couple more through a case study of our latest project, AAA quality mobile fps, Unkilled.

Talk: UNKILLED analytics case study

How can data help you create a better game? How can analytics be leveraged within your studio? We'll be trying to answer these questions and couple more through a case study of our latest project, AAA quality mobile fps, Unkilled.

Talk: How to Successfully Pitch Your Game to Publishers

This talk followed by a Q&A will give you the necessary information to create an attractive pitch for your game. You will learn and see examples on how to convince publishers to invest their time and money on your project.

Talk: Interactive Sound Design

During last twenty years sound in computer games has gone a long way from „that annoying thing we have to do“ to the point where we have almost infinite possibilities and we think of it as an equal part of the game. This talk overviews approaches to sound design using examples from various games and engages not only sound designers to think about it in a broader view.

Talk: Big Tools in Small Team

How to implement agile workflow known as SCRUM using big tools like YouTrack, TeamCity, Perforce and others? We managed to master these tools and get from them maximum productivity. But we didn't stop here - we also created some small tools which led us to a perfect workflow. I would like to talk about how we managed to get it done and share our experience with those tools.

Talk: Designing Darkest Dungeon

Darkest Dungeon is a gothic themed turn-based roguelike about the psychological stresses of adventuring. It has sold over 1 million copies across PC, Mac, PS4, and Vita. It is best known for its focus on the fallability of heroes, a crushing difficulty, and unforgiving game mechanics. Come hear about the game design challenges and lessons learned in creating such an extreme game.

Talk: Business Guide to Steam self-publishing

Business models, market research, pricing, early access, sales, free weekends, visibility rounds... -> lessons learned from successful indie games with shoestring production and marketing budgets. Featuring real-world examples from both pay-to-play and free-to-play Steam games.

Talk: Seduce Them All: How to Do Marketing in a Clever Way

It doesn't matter if you want to pick up someone at the bar or to sell your product to the crowds: the procedures and techniques are the same. Together we'll discover what works the best on them. All will be followed by with series of examples not only from the world of games.

Talk: Support of Development of Videogames from the Programme Creative Europe – MEDIA

How to get financed the development of video games from the Creative Europe – MEDIA sub-programme? Conditions and rules of application and exapmles of supported projects.

Talk: New Perspectives on Game Curation

In 2016 we created two completely new forms of game events: the first is a collection of experimental games created ad hoc for a museum by five renown indie devs. The Second is a five-day-long game festival where every night a different game is played by up to sixty people at the same time for two hours. This is the story of how it all happened.

Talk: How to Deliver a Truck Model

Process of getting a truck in our game. This talk should give a brief overview of what all the necessary steps are to go through before we can lunch a new truck in the game. Main focus should be on technical/artistic part of truck creation pipeline.

Talk: Unity Flash Importer

Write your own Flash Importer - the way, how to use Flash as animation tool for 2D game development in Unity.

Talk: The Many Little Pieces That Inspired Future Unfolding

Game Designer and Art Director Marek Plichta will talk about his personal inspirations for Future Unfolding and prototyping without placeholders.