Anyone going to the Austin Games Conference?

[the myth the legend]

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www.gameconference.com (http://www.gameconference.com)

There are a couple of interesting sessions specifically about Casual Games on Thursday and Friday...

[Geom]

? The link you posted appears to be dead. When is the conference?

[Allen Varney]

The Austin Game Conference, along with its companion Game Writers Conference and Women in Gaming Conference, will be held at the Convention Center in downtown Austin, Texas, this Wednesday (October 26) through Friday (October 28).

The conference site is temporarily down because its servers were hosted in Ft. Myers, Florida, which is currently recovering from Hurricane Wilma. The conference organizers have posted a temporary TypePad blog until the servers come back up:

http://austingame.typepad.com/

I'll be a panelist at the companion Game Writers Conference, and would be glad to meet any indies in attendance.

[jonathan GT]

The site appears to be back up now...

We will be hosting a series of sessions on Friday (10/28) specifically for casual games, entitled "The Casual Game Evolution Summit" (http://www.gameconference.com/conference/next.html#beyonddownloads)

Check out the site for more info; I've listed the speakers below...

11am-12pm: "Moving Beyond the Download"

Moderator: Adeo Ressi, CEO, Game Trust
Peter Glover, VP of Games, Shockwave.com
Margaret Wallace, Co-Founder and CEO, Skunk Studios
Mark Cottam, United Developers, Mumbo Jumbo
Brian Robbins, Director of Online Games, Fuel Industries, IGDA

1:30pm-2:30pm: "Tech Today for Tommorow's Hit"

Moderator: Adeo Ressi, CEO, Game Trust
Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems
Tom Higgins, Technical Product Manager, Macromedia

Hope to see you there! :-)

Jonathan Greechan
Game Manager
Game Trust, Inc.
jonathan(at)gametrust(dot)com