Talents in Games Conference

13:15 - 14:00
ENG

Justin Farren, Executive Producer, MS-1, Wargaming

Fireside Chat

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14:00 - 14:45
ENG

Vadim Charugin, Principal Game Designer, Pixonic

Topic Will Be Announced Soon

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14:45 - 15:30
ENG

Thomas Dubreuil, Studio Manager and Game Lead, Voodoo

Fireside Chat

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Host:
Oleg Nesternko, Managing Editor, GameWorldObserver.com

15:30 - 16:15
ENG

Jan Litecky Sveda, Senior Game Designer, Pixel Federation

Live Ops Life

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Jan will talk about how to design your game for the live ops life from the start. He'll share the best practices and tricks that have helped Pixel Federation to keep their most famous game alive and growing strong for 9 years.

16:15 - 17:00
ENG

Ziv Kitaro, Director of Product Management, Whaleapp

Running Playtests as a Game Designer Person With no Background in Analytics or Psychology, why It's Important and What You Can Learn

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17:00 - 17:45
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Laura Warner, Senior Game Designer, Niantic

AR Game Design 101

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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.

17:45 - 19:00
ENG

David Mullich, Director of Development

How to Be a Game Design Hero

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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 twenty-five 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

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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.

12:30 - 13:15
ENG

Mirko Bertoletti, UA Manаger, GamePoint

Unclear Cut UA Template

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How UA varies across games? Is there a “template to follow”? You need to keep trying different things until you can get to that sweet spot.

13:13 - 14:00
ENG

Elena Vinokurova, Senior UA Manager, Wooga

TBA

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14:00 - 14:45
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Gonçalo Alemao, Lead of UA & Monetization, Homa Games

Bidding 101: How to Automate Your UA Efforts

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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.

11:45 - 13:00
ENG

Jama Jurabaev, Art Director & Freelancer

Concept Art in Cinema

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Jama Jurabaev is a professional concept artist, illustrator and a mattepainter, currently working for the movie and video game industry in London, UK. Jurabaev recently worked on such movies as Avengers: Age of Ultron, X-men: Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy, Alladin and many others.

13:00 - 13:45
ENG

Alexandra Makhudinova, Deus Craft

The Evolution of the Characters in the Casual Time Managers

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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.

13:45 - 14:30
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Carlos Grangel, Grangel Studio SL

Creating Best Characters Look for Animation Films

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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.

14:30 - 15:15
ENG