Author: eriksvedang

Here’s the schedule for the presentations:

Daniel Remar – World Fell Silent
A game about empathy.

Christian Costanza – Developing Skiddy: experience in a first serious project
How behind a game, seemingly simple and clean, there is a great work of simplification. Also of the necessity to provide the user the right feedback and signals in order to make your game “intuitive” and its gameplay “natural” for the user.

How every single element, shape and colour in your game must provide a specific personal sensory impact on the player, either consciously or subconsciously to make a real impression. To explain the ways to gratificate the player to encourage him to go ahead in the game.
How to code and design merged to create the game: from the creation of levels in the XML to the level creator, passing through the graphic editor and the quality control.”

Tim Garbos – Drinking game collaboration
Showing of cool projects that we did since the last jam. And yelling.

Mattias Ljungström – The Spiral
A game made for TV

Daniel Remar – Quintuple Presentation
When one minute-long rant is not enough.

Troy Morrissey – Sound Design – The Last Line Of Defence
My talk will be about how sound design is usually the final stage in the development cycle and it is the last opportunity to heighten the game play experience. I would like to showcase some projects I have worked on and how I looked at getting the most out of sound design, often without ever playing the game or seeing any art assets. Promote the benefits of working with a professional and the difference between a sound effect and actual sound design.

Doron Assayas Terre – Milgrom
About Milgrom, an animated band/album/arcade project I’m part of.

Ciro Continisio – About Kickstarter
I’m going to tell about the whole ordeal of the campaign the strategies, and the phases I went through plus, some of the thoughts after the goal was reached

Alberto Venditti – Nando’s World Nando’s World sneak peek
From the inspiration to the code!

Tametik – Cardinal Quest Post Mortem
At NMS 2011 I showed my then-upcoming game Cardinal Quest. I released it 4 days after NMS 2011 closed. Now I’m going to show you the results.

Martin Jonasson – My Arcade Machine

Arvi Teikari – Showcasing a couple of games

Andreas Zecher – Responsive Web Design for Game Developers
“Why Responsive Web Design matters and how to implement it in your game website. Including examples, frameworks and practical tips.

Olli Harjola – Olli presents The Swapper
Olli Harjola talks about Facepalm’s current project, The Swapper, and it’s development process

 

Just like the two previous years we are going to have a session with talks and presentations before the jam starts. If you are interested in participating, send an email to erik.svedang@gmail.com with the following information:

• Your name
• A name of your talk
• Estimated length (please keep it under 10 minutes unless you have a good excuse!)
• A brief description of what the talk is going to be about

Some ideas for topics:

• Sneak peek a of game in progress
• Post-mortem of a finished project
• Rants
• Tutorials, sharing knowledge

… but something completely different works too!

Here is a preliminary schedule for the presentations. Please tell us if something needs to be changed or is left out.

1. Andreas Zecher – The last 18 months (15 min)
2. Ido Yehieli presents his game Cardinal Quest
3. Martin Jonasson talks about hats
4. Anders Monrad shows us his Art Generator
5. Douglas Wilson + friends want to tell you about the Nordic Indie Allstar Game
6. Joel Nyström showcases what Ludosity is working on
7. Break #1
8. Johannes Wadin on the biz, game development schools and more (20 min)
9. Paolo Tajè talks about his Layers Design Tool
10. Arvi Teikari talks about DIY – design and motivation
    
11. Marko Permanto gives a presentation
12. Daniel Remar – Eat rainbow and explode: Ripping off with cheer
13. Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Anosou on game music (10 min)
    
14. Break #2
15. Douglas Wilson gives his GDC talk about Johann Sebastian Joust (25 min)
16. Erik Svedäng presents Else { Heart.Break() }, a game about programming
17. Miro Karjalainen shows us what he’s working on
    
18. Daniel Remar gives a bonus talk about criticism, empathy and how people talk about games
19. Christoffer Hedborg on variety and innovation in indie games
    
20. Pontus, Daniel & Jens play Cobalt while we watch in awe (10 min)

Just like last year we are going to have a session where people give talks and present the things they are working on. This will almost certainly happen on Friday, the first day of the event.

To not take up to much time we are going to limit each presentation to about 5 minutes. If you have a longer talk that you’d like to give we can probably work that out too – just make sure to tell us.

Erik Svedäng is responsible for the scheduling of this session so if you’re interested in participating you should email him ASAP at erik.svedang@gmail.com.  Include a fancy name for your talk and a brief description of what it’s about.

We’d like to see that as many people as possible give a presentation! Anything indie games-related goes. Here are some suggestions:

• Abandoned projects and failed prototypes
• Game design theory – musings, ramblings and rants on how to make great games
• Show something you’re working on, big or small
• Technology/programs/tricks that you think other people would like to know about