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NGDC 2016

Rajashekar S

Timuz Games
Lead Game Developer
Rajashekar S

08:00 IST

Registrations Pre-function

09:45 IST

Switching from mobile to PC: The Bird of Light storyLIMITED Hall No 2Rahul Sehgal PR or Die: Five practical tips (and one harsh truth) for working with the games pressLIMITED Hall No 1Matthew Handrahan

10:00 IST

How to use games to change and balance personality traitsLIMITED 1.03-1.04Archit Mahendru • Manisha Nagpal Pitch to GamesbondLIMITED 2.01 Tracking game assets with Git LFSLIMITED 1.01-1.02Tim Petterson Game Development with Google Cloud PlatformLIMITED G-05-G.06Rohit Gupta Designing RelaxationLIMITED 1.05-1.06Niki Smit

10:15 IST

Lessons from the Frontline – Best practices in Character Head CreationLIMITED G.03-G.04Suresh Kamath • Amrut Shinde Framing Minimalistic PlayLIMITED G.01-G.02Joel Zachariah

11:00 IST

NGDC Expo Floor Hall No 3 Networking Tea/Coffee Break Pre-function

11:30 IST

Welcome Remarks & Whitepaper highlights Hall No 1-2K T Rama Rao • Rajesh Rao • BVR Mohan Reddy

12:00 IST

Inaugural Keynote Hall No 1-2Bill Jackson

12:45 IST

Networking Lunch Pre-function

14:00 IST

Application of Gaming Principles for Learning and Development in Corporate SectorLIMITED 1.03-1.04Durgesh Nadkarni Importance of Art StyleLIMITED G.03-G.04Suresh Eryiat Why does the following equation hold ? 'Country Side + Murder Case + Monster + Coffee = Good game'LIMITED Hall No 2Hidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro Google Play l Indie Game Developers DayLIMITED 2.02Kanan Rai • Vineet Tanwar Throttle Up: Mobile Game MarketingLIMITED Hall No 1Josh Brooks How I learned to stop worrying and delegate responsibility to my bosses, colleagues and clients.LIMITED 1.01-1.02Mathieu Lachance 30 Years of Game Development - Lessons LearnedLIMITED G.05-G.06Brett Bibby VR through the ages - the Past, Present and FutureLIMITED 1.05-1.06Soumyajit Deb

14:15 IST

Reaching 500K users with $10KLIMITED G.01-G.02Ravi Kiran

15:00 IST

Project Discovery - Massively Multiplayer Online ScienceLIMITED 1.03-1.04Attila Szantner Developing a Great Art Team for Mobile GamesLIMITED G.03-G.04Joshi Mark Premnath Designing PC Games with Indian ThemesLIMITED Hall No 2Arvind Raja Yadav • Mithun Balraj • Zainuddeen Fahadh • Dhruv Jani • Avinash Kumar The Road to FundingLIMITED G.01-G.02Vaibhav Chavan How to Fund your next Game: Work-for-hire, Crowdsource, Networks, Publishers and InvestorsLIMITED Hall No 1bharath lingam • Shilpa Bhat • Maciej Burno • Rohit Kulkarni • Chandan Mohanty • Prayank Swaroop Career Corner with Game Jam Titans & Aspiring Game devsLIMITED 2.01 Producing Mobile Games for Multi-Year Success with a Global AudienceLIMITED 1.01-1.02Amol Gurwara Lessons from developing Aantariksha SaancharLIMITED G.05-G.06Romit Raj VR under the hood - Key Techniques InvolvedLIMITED 1.05-1.06Shailesh Kumar

15:45 IST

How to (almost) Bankrupt Your Game CompanyLIMITED G.01-G.02Brandon Sheffield

16:00 IST

Pong Design and Wow Factor – Principles of Designing Games with a PurposeLIMITED 1.03-1.04Marcus Toftedahl Carrying a story from Concept to Marketing through ArtLIMITED G.03-G.04Nagesh Hinge • Shodan Karkera NGDC Evil Game Design Challenge 2016LIMITED Hall No 2Rishi Alwani • Yadu Rajiv • Anand Ramachandran • Rahul Sehgal One Platform to Rule them all - Manage all campaigns with UACLIMITED Hall No 1Shalini Poddar Don't bother with Sprint 0LIMITED 1.01-1.02Nirmalya Sengupta Tizen for games: Samsung Incentive Program and OpportunitiesLIMITED G.05-G.06Hokyu Choi • Mohan Rao Augmented Reality as the next big gaming ecosystemLIMITED 1.05-1.06Krishna Milan

16:30 IST

Soft Launching Your Indie GameLIMITED G.01-G.02Raoul Nanavati • Surojit Roy

16:45 IST

Unique Pillo Game Controller and Health GamesLIMITED 1.03-1.04Ard Jacobs Making the Art of Asura!LIMITED G.03-G.04Zainuddeen Fahadh Polishing a Game for DummiesLIMITED Hall No 2Huzaifa Arab Celebrities, Movies, TV shows. What works in IP games?LIMITED Hall No 1Sidharth Iyer • Manish Agarwal • Rohith Bhatt • Josh Brooks Project Growth: A leader’s guide to the team transformationLIMITED 1.01-1.02Kaushal Singh

17:00 IST

Opportunities on VR with Samsung Gear VRLIMITED 1.05-1.06Ravi Belwal

17:15 IST

Creativity as a Foundation to SuccessLIMITED G.01-G.02Barry Meade

17:30 IST

Panel: Importance of Research in Game DesignLIMITED 1.03-1.04Sandeep Athavale • Gopi Ambikapathi • Prof Uday Athavankar • Stéphane Magnenat • Marcus Toftedahl Integrating IP in GamesLIMITED Hall No 2Nikhil Birla Make it big: Strategies to Achieve Phenomenal GrowthLIMITED Hall No 1Deepan Chakravarthy • Gurinder Pal Singh Building scalable game servers using micro servicesLIMITED G.05-G.06Debdatta Basu VR & AR - issues, challenges and the way forwardLIMITED 1.05-1.06Chandan Singh • Abhishek Gupta • Bonnie Mathew • Krishna Milan • Hemanth Satyanarayana

18:30 IST

BYOG & NGF Awards Cermony Hall No 1-2

19:00 IST

Beer & Briyani Hall No 1-2

10:00 IST

Panel: Creating an ecosystem for Serious Games in India – Lessons from the DutchLIMITED 1.03-1.04Ellis • Jan Willem Huisman • Rob Hulsen • Kathy Mulders • Niki Smit Designing a Character for ProductionLIMITED G.03-G.04Aditya Chari NGDC Expo Floor Hall No 3 Gaming the System: Transforming Indian GamesLIMITED Hall No 2Avinash Kumar • Dr. Padmini Ray Murray Follow the market: Predictions for 2017LIMITED Hall No 1Anuj Tandon • Josh Brooks • Matthew Handrahan • Roj Niyogi • Brandon Sheffield What’s New in Alternative MonetisationLIMITED 1.05-1.06Saptarshi Chaudhury • Sahil Ali • Nikunj Arora • Prashant Dixit • Ashiwn Shekhar • Anshul Singhal Feature Development at GluLIMITED 1.01-1.02Nilesh Engineer Tech Keynote by John WatsonLIMITED G.05-G.06John Watson

10:15 IST

The Indie Way: Advice from a VeteranLIMITED G.01-G.02Yutaka "Yoot" Saito

11:00 IST

Networking Tea/Coffee Break Pre-function Unity Certification Exam Batch 2 2.03-2.04John Sietsma

11:15 IST

Keynote | Building creative team culture to deliver AAA WOW! Hall No 1-2Jolyon Webb

11:30 IST

Publisher Meet-upFULL 2.02 Women in Game DevelopmentLIMITED 2.01

12:15 IST

Art History and Calculus for University level studentsLIMITED 1.03-1.04Andre Thomas Equip yourself to be a game artistLIMITED G.03-G.04Dev Battacharya • Sankalp Hinge Playing beyond the Screen: Videogame Stories and Why They Mean So Much to the WorldLIMITED Hall No 2Dr. Souvik Mukherjee Indie Game Developer's ToolsLIMITED G.01-G.02Abhineet Prasad Analytics driven feature designLIMITED Hall No 1Muthukaleeshwaran Subbiah Enlivening brands through virtual realityLIMITED 1.01-1.02Pratik Khatanhar Opensource Game EnginesLIMITED G.05-G.06Vamsi Twitch-ready 3D Games with Amazon Lumbaryard and Gamelift 1.05-1.06Chandra Balani

13:00 IST

Networking Lunch Pre-function

14:00 IST

Learning to Play Creating Engagement in Training and Skills DevelopmentLIMITED 1.03-1.04Siddharth Jain Global Culture and Hyper-locality in Indian video game art : A provocation for the futureLIMITED G.03-G.04Avinash Kumar Designing Mobile Premium Games in the Age of Free-to-PlayLIMITED Hall No 2Hrishi Oberoi • Chirag Chopra • Ankush Madad • Himanshu Manwani • Chintan Shroff • Siddharth Sivaraman Aligning monetization with user engagementLIMITED Hall No 1Apoorva Sharma How to build and leverage communities in different stages of productionLIMITED 1.01-1.02Abhishek Katuroju Diversity in Games 1.05-1.06Dr. Souvik Mukherjee • Dr. Padmini Ray Murray • Marcus Toftedahl Tips & Tricks - Cocos2dxLIMITED G.05-G.06Sanchit Gulati

14:15 IST

A Beginners Guide to the Digital Storefrontier : Steam Greenlight, GoG & itch.ioLIMITED G.01-G.02Vivek Ram

14:30 IST

Maximising Revenue using ProgrammaticLIMITED Hall No 1Navin Madhavan

14:45 IST

Immersive simulations for training in corporate worlds using Mixed RealityLIMITED 1.03-1.04Hemanth Satyanarayana The Art of Indie GamesLIMITED G.03-G.04Mike Dietz Crafting interesting Mechanics and Lore through Game-play and Aesthetics!LIMITED Hall No 2Zainuddeen Fahadh A Global Community For A Global ChangeLIMITED 1.01-1.02Goutham Dindukurthi Creating a quality Unity3d game under 15mbLIMITED G.05-G.06Srini

15:00 IST

Closing Tea/Coffee Pre-function

16:00 IST

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