The Mobile Games Forum 07

This event may be of interest to mobile companies and students interested in the area. It isn’t cheap to attend.

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Date: 23rd & 24th January 2007
Venue: The Waldorf Hilton, London
Contact: paul_osmond@osneymedia.co.uk
Overview: http://www.mobilegamesforum.co.uk/tracker.asp?magazineid=432

Not just another mobile games event – with over 180 delegates attending last year, this is the definitive marketplace for developers, publishers and operators.

Attend this event to hear industry leaders’ opinions on these important questions:
– How big an impact will convergence and the next generation consoles affect the mobile games market?
– How do you market games direct to the consumer through off-portal channels?
– Licenses are increasingly costly so how do you make your money back through the mobile?
– What makes a successful game title and how can you develop original IP through the mobile?
– Which billing models are attractive to the consumers and which give the greatest ROI?
– Should we continuously try to support all handsets or should there be more focus on native games?
– What are latest mobile games trends around the world?
– How do we minimise the ‘pain’ and cost of Quality Assurance?

Speaker line up includes: O2, 3 Germany, T-Mobile, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, SFR, Samsung, Infospace, Sun Microsystems, Glu Mobile and many more…

Mobile Games Forum

Date: 23rd & 24th January 2007

Venue: The Waldorf Hilton, London

Contact: paul_osmond@osneymedia.co.uk

Overview: http://www.mobilegamesforum.co.uk/tracker.asp?magazineid=432v

Accessibility Game Programming

DonationCoder.com Announces Deadline and Prizes for Accessibility Game Programming Competition

This may be of interest to some.
Aphra

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DonationCoder.com has announced the prize list (valued over $15,000), and two-Part deadline (Dec 22 and Dec 31) for their Accessibility Game Programming Competition. Prizes include tickets to the 2007 Game Developers Conference.

Games entered must be either audio-only, or controllable with a single button. Games may be playable online (Macromedia Flash, etc.) or downloadble for windows/mac/linux/etc. Authors retain all rights.

Full details on the contest website: http://agamecontest.donationcoder.com

Prize List
Classic and Giga Passes to the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco from March 5th-9th – CMP/GDC/IGDA

Two sets of the complete audio proceedings on cd for years 2004, 2005, and
2006 of the Game Developers Conference – CMP/GDC

Complete Game Programming Gems Series vols. 1 thru 6 – Charles River

Torque Game Engine and Torque Game Builder – GarageGames

SFX Kit Sound Effect Library – Sound-Ideas.com

Xtreme Bundle Sound Effect Library – SoundLabel

Gamestudio A6 Commercial – Conitec

Dark Game SDK – TheGameCreators

About DonationCoder.com
DonationCoder.com is an online community of developers and software connoisseurs.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
DonationCoder.com
(217) 531-0212
http://www.donationcoder.com
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Gdc 07

Location: San Francisco

Also GDC Mobile, Serious Games Summit, Casual Games Summit, Independent Games summit and much more

For more details see http://www.gdconf.com/conference/

Xmas Shinanigans

well actually the date has yet to be decided – 15th or the 22nd..

have your say on the forums and cast your vote..

and the venue has to be decided too..

see http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29198#29198