Check out the full speaker schedule for the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX
Kowloon Nights, London Venture Partners and Hiro Capital complete the speaker schedule for the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit in Seattle.
The event takes place the day before PAX at the Seattle Convention Center, and also features talks from Xbox, Valve, Shawn Layden, Square Enix Collective and TinyBuild. Tickets are on sale here starting from $50 (+ booking fee) for developers.
The speakers will be joined by over 65 game developers and more than 25 publishers and investors, who have already signed up to the show.
Here is the schedule:
09:00 am — 09:30 am PDTRegistration
09:30 am — 09:55 am PDTWelcome and Fireside Chat with Shawn Layden
The former head of PlayStation Studios and current advisor to major companies such as Tencent will discuss the past, present and future of video games
09:55 am — 10:10 am PDTCreating Thousand Hour Long Experiences - Alex Nichiporchik (TinyBuild)
The CEO of TinyBuild will discuss the importance of emergent gameplay, and why the industry is not seeing enough games with it
10:10 am — 10:30 am PDTHow Square Enix Collective and FuturLab took PowerWash Simulator to 7m players - Anne-Lou Grosbois-Favreau (Square Enix), Jakub 'Koobs' Klitenik (Square Enix), Rebecca Sweetmore (Futurlab), Joshua Brown (Futurlab)
The publisher and developer tell us how they teamed up to deliver the indie hit to millions of fans
10:30 am — 10:55 am PDTSteam Visibility: How Games Get Surfaced To Players - Erik Peterson (Valve)
Valve will explain how game visibility works on Steam and what developers can do to improve their chances
10:55 am — 11:10 am PDTBreak
11:10 am — 11:30 am PDTFireside Chat with Jen MacLean of Xbox
The general manager of Game Creator Partnerships will talk about opportunities
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