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NGDC 2016

Rajashekar S

Timuz Games
Lead Game Developer
Rajashekar S

08:00

Registrations Pre-function

09:45

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

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How to use games to change and balance personality traits 1.03-1.04LIMITEDArchit Mahendru • Manisha Nagpal Pitch to Gamesbond 2.01LIMITED Tracking game assets with Git LFS 1.01-1.02LIMITEDTim Petterson Game Development with Google Cloud Platform G-05-G.06LIMITEDRohit Gupta Designing Relaxation 1.05-1.06LIMITEDNiki Smit

10:15

Lessons from the Frontline – Best practices in Character Head Creation G.03-G.04LIMITEDSuresh Kamath • Amrut Shinde Framing Minimalistic Play G.01-G.02LIMITEDJoel Zachariah

11:00

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

11:30

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

12:00

Inaugural Keynote Hall No 1-2Bill Jackson

12:45

Networking Lunch Pre-function

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Application of Gaming Principles for Learning and Development in Corporate Sector 1.03-1.04LIMITEDDurgesh Nadkarni Importance of Art Style G.03-G.04LIMITEDSuresh Eryiat Why does the following equation hold ? 'Country Side + Murder Case + Monster + Coffee = Good game' Hall No 2LIMITEDHidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro Google Play l Indie Game Developers Day 2.02LIMITEDKanan Rai • Vineet Tanwar Throttle Up: Mobile Game Marketing Hall No 1LIMITEDJosh Brooks How I learned to stop worrying and delegate responsibility to my bosses, colleagues and clients. 1.01-1.02LIMITEDMathieu Lachance 30 Years of Game Development - Lessons Learned G.05-G.06LIMITEDBrett Bibby VR through the ages - the Past, Present and Future 1.05-1.06LIMITEDSoumyajit Deb

14:15

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

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Project Discovery - Massively Multiplayer Online Science 1.03-1.04LIMITEDAttila Szantner Developing a Great Art Team for Mobile Games G.03-G.04LIMITEDJoshi Mark Premnath Designing PC Games with Indian Themes Hall No 2LIMITEDArvind Raja Yadav • Mithun Balraj • Zainuddeen Fahadh • Dhruv Jani • Avinash Kumar The Road to Funding G.01-G.02LIMITEDVaibhav Chavan How to Fund your next Game: Work-for-hire, Crowdsource, Networks, Publishers and Investors Hall No 1LIMITEDbharath lingam • Shilpa Bhat • Maciej Burno • Rohit Kulkarni • Chandan Mohanty • Prayank Swaroop Career Corner with Game Jam Titans & Aspiring Game devs 2.01LIMITED Producing Mobile Games for Multi-Year Success with a Global Audience 1.01-1.02LIMITEDAmol Gurwara Lessons from developing Aantariksha Saanchar G.05-G.06LIMITEDRomit Raj VR under the hood - Key Techniques Involved 1.05-1.06LIMITEDShailesh Kumar

15:45

How to (almost) Bankrupt Your Game Company G.01-G.02LIMITEDBrandon Sheffield

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Pong Design and Wow Factor – Principles of Designing Games with a Purpose 1.03-1.04LIMITEDMarcus Toftedahl Carrying a story from Concept to Marketing through Art G.03-G.04LIMITEDNagesh Hinge • Shodan Karkera NGDC Evil Game Design Challenge 2016 Hall No 2LIMITEDRishi Alwani • Yadu Rajiv • Anand Ramachandran • Rahul Sehgal One Platform to Rule them all - Manage all campaigns with UAC Hall No 1LIMITEDShalini Poddar Don't bother with Sprint 0 1.01-1.02LIMITEDNirmalya Sengupta Tizen for games: Samsung Incentive Program and Opportunities G.05-G.06LIMITEDHokyu Choi • Mohan Rao Augmented Reality as the next big gaming ecosystem 1.05-1.06LIMITEDKrishna Milan

16:30

Soft Launching Your Indie Game G.01-G.02LIMITEDRaoul Nanavati • Surojit Roy

16:45

Unique Pillo Game Controller and Health Games 1.03-1.04LIMITEDArd Jacobs Making the Art of Asura! G.03-G.04LIMITEDZainuddeen Fahadh Polishing a Game for Dummies Hall No 2LIMITEDHuzaifa Arab Celebrities, Movies, TV shows. What works in IP games? Hall No 1LIMITEDSidharth Iyer • Manish Agarwal • Rohith Bhatt • Josh Brooks Project Growth: A leader’s guide to the team transformation 1.01-1.02LIMITEDKaushal Singh

17:00

Opportunities on VR with Samsung Gear VR 1.05-1.06LIMITEDRavi Belwal

17:15

Creativity as a Foundation to Success G.01-G.02LIMITEDBarry Meade

17:30

Panel: Importance of Research in Game Design 1.03-1.04LIMITEDSandeep Athavale • Gopi Ambikapathi • Prof Uday Athavankar • Stéphane Magnenat • Marcus Toftedahl Integrating IP in Games Hall No 2LIMITEDNikhil Birla Make it big: Strategies to Achieve Phenomenal Growth Hall No 1LIMITEDDeepan Chakravarthy • Gurinder Pal Singh Building scalable game servers using micro services G.05-G.06LIMITEDDebdatta Basu VR & AR - issues, challenges and the way forward 1.05-1.06LIMITEDChandan Singh • Abhishek Gupta • Bonnie Mathew • Krishna Milan • Hemanth Satyanarayana

18:30

BYOG & NGF Awards Cermony Hall No 1-2

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Beer & Briyani Hall No 1-2

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

10:15

The Indie Way: Advice from a Veteran G.01-G.02LIMITEDYutaka "Yoot" Saito

11:00

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

11:15

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

11:30

Publisher Meet-up 2.02FULL Women in Game Development 2.01LIMITED

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Art History and Calculus for University level students 1.03-1.04LIMITEDAndre Thomas Equip yourself to be a game artist G.03-G.04LIMITEDDev Battacharya • Sankalp Hinge Playing beyond the Screen: Videogame Stories and Why They Mean So Much to the World Hall No 2LIMITEDDr. Souvik Mukherjee Indie Game Developer's Tools G.01-G.02LIMITEDAbhineet Prasad Analytics driven feature design Hall No 1LIMITEDMuthukaleeshwaran Subbiah Enlivening brands through virtual reality 1.01-1.02LIMITEDPratik Khatanhar Opensource Game Engines G.05-G.06LIMITEDVamsi Twitch-ready 3D Games with Amazon Lumbaryard and Gamelift 1.05-1.06Chandra Balani

13:00

Networking Lunch Pre-function

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Learning to Play Creating Engagement in Training and Skills Development 1.03-1.04LIMITEDSiddharth Jain Global Culture and Hyper-locality in Indian video game art : A provocation for the future G.03-G.04LIMITEDAvinash Kumar Designing Mobile Premium Games in the Age of Free-to-Play Hall No 2LIMITEDHrishi Oberoi • Chirag Chopra • Ankush Madad • Himanshu Manwani • Chintan Shroff • Siddharth Sivaraman Aligning monetization with user engagement Hall No 1LIMITEDApoorva Sharma How to build and leverage communities in different stages of production 1.01-1.02LIMITEDAbhishek Katuroju Diversity in Games 1.05-1.06Dr. Souvik Mukherjee • Dr. Padmini Ray Murray • Marcus Toftedahl Tips & Tricks - Cocos2dx G.05-G.06LIMITEDSanchit Gulati

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

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Maximising Revenue using Programmatic Hall No 1LIMITEDNavin Madhavan

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Immersive simulations for training in corporate worlds using Mixed Reality 1.03-1.04LIMITEDHemanth Satyanarayana The Art of Indie Games G.03-G.04LIMITEDMike Dietz Crafting interesting Mechanics and Lore through Game-play and Aesthetics! Hall No 2LIMITEDZainuddeen Fahadh A Global Community For A Global Change 1.01-1.02LIMITEDGoutham Dindukurthi Creating a quality Unity3d game under 15mb G.05-G.06LIMITEDSrini

15:00

Closing Tea/Coffee Pre-function

16:00

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