Gaming

IoT and Game Dev? While it might not come to mind immediately when thinking about game development, the internet of things could be the next emerging space for game devs. In this episode, ScruffyFurn (Mickey MacDonald) rants about the idea that game developers only code games and talk about the…

Karl Piteira from Capptain helps apps engage and retain hundreds of millions of users as a Product Owner and Customer Success manager at Capptain which was acquired in 2014 by Microsoft. Prior to that he managed strategic partnerships at Myriad Group which is part of the billion mobile software…

Louis Deane, a graduate of Computer Science from the University of Hull; set up Gateway Interactive in 2013 following his vision that the future of gaming would be intrinsically tied to multiplatform interoperability and cloud systems. Grown out of his University's Enterprise Centre and the local…

Thore Graepel is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Professor of Machine Learning at University College London. His research interests revolve around large-scale applications of machine learning including skill estimation, user modelling, recommender systems and game AI. Thore is one…

Richard Conway has been programming since his ZX81. Since the inception of Azure he's been smitten by the cloud and learning to use all of the resources it can offer. He works for Elastacloud (yes you can probably guess what we do!) and loves using technologies which scale (Big Data and Big…

James Mintram from Lemon Moose Games Ltd has developed a number of successful titles which have been distributed across a total of 8 platforms and numerous marketplaces, this session will focus on the new opportunity of containerization of application with Docker and containerised services.

As Director of Product Management, Sam provides a link between Mediatonic's games, their audience and the wider marketplace. Commercially responsible for the success of their titles, Sam works closely alongside internal teams and external publishers (in 2014 this includes Microsoft, Square Enix and…

Chris Sterling has 25 years of professional software development experience in games and tools, and has founded several technology start-ups. In 1997 he designed the real-time strategy PC game "Beasts and Bumpkins", published by EA. He later built the commercial 3D engine and editor…

James Nieswand from Illyriad Games. In this talk, James will share Illyriad Games' experiences and insight into how to attract the players, retain them and improve their gameplay experience by using metrics, analysis and modelling. The talk will explain how even a tiny indie can use CRM techniques…

This event is being run as part of London Mobile Games Week. During the day various speakers will discuss the true opportunity of Cloud Gaming: Simplicity for the world of multi-platform, multi-game, multi-player, multi-device development. The goal of cloud games is to provide gamers with the…