Talents In Games Online will gather more than 2,000 game industry professionals from all over the world on June 8-11. The event will be held on WN Hub - the online communication platform for the game industry.
The lectures will cover four major fields of game development process:
• Game Design
• User Acquisition;
• Art;
• Community Management.
The first speakers from the leading game companies as well as independent experts and industry celebrities will be announced in May.
Talents In Games Online is hosted by TalentsInGames.com - a job search platform for the game industry professionals. The information about the offline conference Talents In Games Moscow will be announced in July.
Testimonials
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In this session we will provide a description of the core game pillars, why do you need them, how to find them. How to explain the pillars of your game to the team and to your investor/publisher. And, of course, how to deliver them to the players.
14:45 - 15:30 ENG
Thomas Dubreuil, Studio Manager and Game Lead, Voodoo
Fireside Chat hosted by Oleg Nesterenko (GameWorldObserver.com)
This presentation will discuss what to focus on when starting the design process for a game that is supposed to stand the test of time. How to set up things as not to be a product, but a service. What are some easy and tried practices; what to be wary of and what are some industry boogeymen, that seem scarier than they should.
16:15 - 17:00 ENG
Ziv Kitaro, Director of Product Management, Whaleapp
How To Know What Players Think Without Wasting Time
Running Playtests as a game designer/product person with no background in analytics or psychology - why it's important, and what you can learn by doing it?
17:00 - 17:45 ENG
Laura Warner, Senior Game Designer, Niantic, Kirsten Koa, Senior Software Engineer, Niantic
Learn how the team behind one of the most popular AR games tackles the challenges of blending the digital world with every-day real world experiences. Get insight into the core Game Design principles Niantic rely on when crafting fun and exciting AR experiences for our Trainers.
David Mullich, a video game designer and producer who has developed projects for Activision, Disney, Electronic Arts, and many other companies. With a career spanning more than fourty years, Mullich is best known for creating the cult classic 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, producing the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developing many games in the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise. Currently David is Lead Faculty of The Los Angeles Film School‘s Game Production Program and also do independent consulting work under the banner Electric Sheep Consulting.
11:45 - 12:30 ENG
Aleksandr Bezobrazov, VP of Marketing, G5 Entertainment
Analytics for User Acquisition: the Truth Is Somewhere Near
G5 Entertainment has offices in the United States, European Union, and Eastern Europe. Aleksandr will tell you how the cultural and professional background impacts the way people approach analyzing User Acquisition and what benefits the company gets from utilizing that diversity.
In the current climate of mobile advertising, User Acquisition has become increasingly unpredictable. Clear cut UA best practices are easily said, but implementation and performance always varies.
Learn how GamePoint was able to grow its diversified portfolio by using common industry wide best practices and learnings from pre-existing games that were transferred to new releases. Surprising results showed that previously in-efficient audiences became Gold-mines.
The theme is that there is no UA standard, keep trying things until you find that “sweet spot”
Retargeting is a relatively new and unexplored topic by many game advertisers. In this talk I want to cover Wooga’s experience with producing creatives for retargeting.
We will look at the key differences between producing creatives for UA and retargeting. I will share our methodology of how to analyse the performance and give insights on what kind of creatives have worked best for us when retargeting lapsed users.
14:00 - 14:45 ENG
Gonçalo Alemao, Lead of UA & Monetization, Homa Games
Homa Games will be teaching you on this session how to automate and update thousands of bids in less than few minutes. Nowadays they have several tools available that allow to transfer our manual bidding methodology to an automated process that is more efficient and less time consuming.
13:00 - 13:45 ENG
Alexandra Makhudinova, Deus Craft
The Evolution of the Characters in the Casual Time Managers
How marketing helped define the concept; when you don't know what the game will be about; nuances of development - a time Manager for girls is made by boys.
Carlos Grangel is a Spanish character designer for various animated films.
He has currently worked as a character designer on of DreamWorks Animation: The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shark Tale, Madagascar and How to Train Your Dragon. He also worked on Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
14:40 - 15:25 ENG
Elena Alt, Environment 3D Artist, Game Graphics Tutor, Scream School
How Art and Game Design Departaments Should Work Together?
What is the best way to build a pipeline in the production of game levels. How not to lose time and money on production. What tasks should the design and art departments solve together?
Vyacheslav will share his knowledge about all the features which Ray Tracing technology enables in UE4. All the most common features will be deconstructed on this session. Also Vyacheslav will tell what are the ways to yield the same result without RTX technology.
16:10 - 17:00 ENG
Daniel Dociu, Art Director
Fireside Chat hosted by Ninel Anderson, CEO of Devoted Studios
Daniel Dociu doesn’t need an introduction - he is one of the most renowned and beloved Art Directors of the games industry; the Art Father of Guild Wars. His concept art is the type of mindblowing work that makes one want to become an artist in the first place. Ninel Anderson, CEO of Devoted Studios, will discuss with Daniel such topics as how to lead a team like a conductor, how the art teams of Guild Wars 1 and 2 were built, things Daniel looks for in artists, how allowing aberrations in art style builds more plausible worlds, how to develop IPs, techniques and brushes, and the differences between original IP development vs movie based.
11:45 - 12:30 ENG
Vladimir Tolmachev, Head Of Community, My.Games
Lost Ark - How We Raised Brand Awareness and WoM by Gaining Users' Trust
Our goal was to bring as much players as possible via Word-of-Mouth aquisition channel. To meet it we had to raise project Net Promoter Score from -56% to +42%. During the session you will learn what means we used in order to accomplish that.
12:30 - 13:15 ENG
Fireside Chat with Jumpei Oki (Supercell) and Alexey Biryukov (Pixonic)
Often it's not fully understood what Community Managers exactly do, and why are they vital. In this talk we'll deep-dive into the world of Community Management to create a better understanding of the job and the importance of the Community in Game Development.
14:00 - 14:45 ENG
Jakub Vamberský, Community Manager of DayZ, Bohemia Interactive
This presentation will be focused on an individual approach to community management and how it can help you create a healthy community based around fun, passion, creative feedback and community-generated content. We will also discuss how to help your community members grow into brand ambassadors, micro-influencers or other community managers.
