Schedule

• Day 1
• April 17, 2018

• 13:00 Registration and Greeting 13:00 - 13:15Get your badge and find the best seat for the talk you want to start out with.

• 13:15 Block #1 (click to expand) 13:15 - 14:00Dynamic and modular sound design of Youropa
  A walk through of the sound design in the game Youropa. The game is highly modular and dynamic, which made the sound design fairly complex. In the talk, Niels will explain the design process and give examples of the implementation in Fmod and the custom-made game engine.
  // Room: Saxo
  // Speakers: Niels Böttcher, Ph.d in procedural audio
  
  Double talk: ECHO, Ultra Ultra + Community as creative guidance, Wartile
  In Echo your enemy is the way you play the game - a simple idea that can be approached in a million different ways, resulting in very different games. In these 20 minutes I’ll try to map out our journey from initial idea to the particular game we ended up with. I’ll talk about how universe and gameplay informed each other, the value of quick prototyping, and how the mechanics changed through production.
  
  Through the full process of making Wartile, they have been highly dependent on external feedback on the execution of the game systems. This talk will go through the developement of Wartile and how their own observations together with the intensive feedback from the community had an impact on the creative process in realizing Wartile and how it still influences them moving forward.
  // Room: Blixen
  // Speakers: Martin Emborg, CEO Ultra Ultra & Michael Rud, CEO Wartile
  
  Carving Caves in Deep Rock Galactic
  When Ghostship Games started Deep Rock Galactic, they knew that creating "procedural generated caves" would be one of their biggest challenges. This happened in the wake of No Man's Sky and everybody screaming that procedural content would always be dull and samey. Ghostship Games decided to approach the challenge in very pragmatic fashion and iterate until they had something that was "good enough" - in contrast to over-designing and over-engineering. As a foundation, they developed a custom mesh-carving technology and a debris system, though this talk will mostly focus on the "procedural generated caves and tunnels".
  // Room: Holberg
  // Speakers: Jonas Møller, programmer & Fran Aviles, Game Designer, Ghostship Games
  

• 14:15 Block #2 (click to expand) 14:15 - 15:00Kill 10 rats - writing mission oriented dialog
  Welcome to a short and intense talk about how to deliver clear mission statements through dialogue in narrative games. What questions must be answered to explain a mission through natural dialogue? How do we avoid forced exposition? How do we communicate the goals and the story naturally to the player while staying true to the characters and the world given? Can we create hints that widen the world and the player's urge to explore?
  // Room: Saxo
  // Speakers: Morten Brunbjerg, Game writer
  
  From concept art to final frame in Unity's new render pipelines
  A detailed walkthrough of how to concept, mockup, estimate and produce art in the new HD rendering pipeline of unity, as well as an introduction to the lighting, shading and rendering capabilities of the pipeline. Martin and Jesper will show how to streamline asset iteration and production and how to best set up a project for working with multiple artists and external vendors.
  // Room: Blixen
  // Speakers: Martin Vestergaard Kümmel, Technical Art Director at Unity Technologies & Jesper Sølling Andersen, Concept Artist at MOOD
  
  Bridging technologies in a social network of games
  MovieStarPlanet has many years experience in developing and operating socially linked games played by millions of tweens and teens all over the world. They are in the process of transitioning from Flash to Unity, and this talk will cover how they are building a framework in Unity, that makes it super easy to create new social games and increase development speed by magnitudes using re-usable components, while bridging the social aspects of the games between old and new technology.
  // Room: Holberg
  // Speakers: Caspar Strandbygaard, CTO MovieStarPlanet
  
  

• 15:15 Block #3 (click to expand) 15:15 - 16:00Double Talk: A journey through and ancient world, Nina V. Folkersen + TBA Nina: Being both a visual artist and a writer for an indie game is a big mouthful - especially if it's your first job! In this talk, Nina will explain how the story was developed in terms of the narrative and the visuals, what techniques she explored along the way and what she learned through the process. 2. TBA
  // Room: Saxo
  // Speakers: Nina Vinde Folkersen, Artist, writer and game designer Invisible Walls and TBA
  
  Double talk: Creating Rigging Tools for Artists, Mads Dam Jakobsen + Economy Systems & Balancing, Ivan Garde
  1.Mads: Developing Tools that enables artists to author game rigs without having to deal with the repetitive tasks and high amount of complexity that is usually involved in rigging. The talk gives an insight into the design process of the pipeline, how we choose to structure our rigging tools and framework, as well as discuss what has worked and what hasn't. The talk focuses on tools developed for Autodesk Maya, but should be applicable to pipelines based on other packages. 2. Ivan: An overview of methods used for balancing and how to identify and analyze the economic components in your games. Plus a few practical tips that any designer can apply when balancing their systems
  // Room: Blixen
  // Speakers: Mads Dam Jakobsen, Technical Artist Sybo Games + Ivan Garde, Senior Game Designer SYBO
  
  Cloth simulation in Glacier 2
  This is an introduction to cloth simulation and Glacier 2's cloth pipeline. In HITMAN cloth simulation is used to bring life to environments and characters. The tools and setup in Glacier 2 are shown with examples from HITMAN. // Room: Holberg
  // Speakers: Marten Suldrup Larsen, programmer IO Interactive
  
  

• 16:15 Block #4 (click to expand) 16:15 - 17:00Designing for Augmented Reality
  In this talk, Michael Flarup will take the audience through the journey he went on creating their first AR-only experience. The game Conduct AR! He will talk about how many of the assumptions they had going in turned out to be wrong and how they worked to change them in a race to launch alongside iOS 11. It'll be an explosive, entertaining and visual journey into one of the most exciting frontiers in technology today.
  // Room: Saxo
  // Speakers: Michael Flarup, CEO and designer Northplay
  
  Live Concept Art Experience the process of bringing production concepts to live, when a group of skilled Concept Artists enters the stage to share their knowledge, insights, creative skills, tips, and tricks. The session will be moderated by Rasmus Poulsen, Franchise Art Director at IO Interactive. A relaxed session with room for questions from the audience.
  // Room: Blixen
  // Rasmus Poulsen, (Moderator)
  Silas Amdi, (Concept Artist)
  Simon Fetscher (Concept Artist)
  Tommy Kinnerup, (Concept Artist)
  
  Testing a massive Live game: A QA perspective on a tight development process
  Making a massive Live game with many intricate systems and frequent releases, presents a huge amount of challenges, not only to the QA department but everyone involved. Hear the story of how the internal QA department grew at RETO MOTO. Michael will deliver a talk on the QA perspective of a tight development process, where excellent resource management, great prioritization and effective use of tools, are crucial elements to succeed in a fast cycle of handling the many overlapping development flows.
  // Room: Holberg
  // Speakers: Michael Larsen, Lead Tester Reto Moto
  
  

• 17:00 Developer beers served by Tactile 17:00 - 18:30Hang around and drink a couple of beers up until Spilprisen