Complete event listing for
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Road
Friday, March 9
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade is where the latest video game industry announcements, product demos and exciting game tournaments happen. ScreenBurn brings together the different worlds of gaming, including console, PC,...
Featuring Minecraft, COD: MW3 and more! LANFest is appreciating $5 cash, a can food item, or school supplies - where possible will benefit the Bastrop fire victims. Please come out and support this worthy cause with your...
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade sponsored by Alienware is the place to be for the latest gaming announcements, product demos, cosplay competitions and exciting professional gaming tournaments.......
Schedule available at SXSW.com.......
Aching feet? Thirsty? Stop by Intel’s meet up lounge and decompress with internet access, refreshments, and good company.......
Join us for portfolio reviews, life drawing workshops, informal talks and more with TheArtDepartment.org and ConceptArt.org......
FUNimation presents a hosted happy hour celebration of the upcoming animated films Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker and Mass Effect: Paragon Lost.......
Saturday, March 10
Take the dynamic world of cross-platform gaming and mix it with the knowledge garnered from the former CEO and co-founder of MySpace and you’ve got a behind the scenes look at the ins and outs of the $5.5 billion socia...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Dewolfe, Michael Snider
We've gathered the brightest and most opinionated minds from Kotaku, Destructoid, KillScreen and the Verge to discuss emerging topics in video game development. Topics will include: how mobile/tablet could kill consoles,...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jamin Warren, Matt Buchanan, Morgan Webb, N'Gai Croal, Ross Miller
Aching feet? Thirsty? Stop by Intel’s meet up lounge and decompress with internet access, refreshments, and good company.......
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade is where the latest video game industry announcements, product demos and exciting game tournaments happen. ScreenBurn brings together the different worlds of gaming, including console, PC,...
Featuring Minecraft, COD: MW3 and more! LANFest is appreciating $5 cash, a can food item, or school supplies - where possible will benefit the Bastrop fire victims. Please come out and support this worthy cause with your...
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade sponsored by Alienware is the place to be for the latest gaming announcements, product demos, cosplay competitions and exciting professional gaming tournaments.......
Schedule available at SXSW.com.......
Independent game development is stronger than ever and this panel will highlight alternative sources of funding that are not dependent on the traditional publisher funding model. Did you know that the National Endowment ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cindy Au, Kellee Santiago, Matthew Kozlov, Michael Shirley, Ted Regulski
Over 25 years ago, Super Mario was the only one who could say he was gaming in the cloud, stomping Goombas, eating mushrooms and occasionally using extraordinary leaping skills to jump from cloud to cloud in search of Pr...
Intermediate
Presenters
Allan Leinwand, Ari Levy, Darryl Eaton, George Miranda, Megan Wohlford
Join Intel for our Saturday afternoon mixer to relax, grab a bite, and get to know your fellow ScreenBurn attendee!......
With the emergence of highly accessible electronic games developed for Facebook and smartphones, there has been a clear democratization of electronic gaming that has led to many people discovering video games for the fir...
Advanced
Presenters
Jack Buser, Scott Rohde
Peter Swearengen, Executive Producer at Stupid Fun Club, Inc., and Tish Shute, Reality Architect, Stupid Fun Club Inc, will explore the cross pollination of games with life.Peter and Tish will talk from the often competi...
Intermediate
Presenters
Peter Swearengen, Tish Shute
This talk will address the power of computer and video games as a mature entertainment medium and a largely untapped art form. It will make an impassioned case for using games for social impact and learning, with an over...
Beginner
Presenters
Asi Burak
Each Summer, thousands of people of all ages and interests participate in local variations of the alternate reality game known as "Journey to the End of the Night", a free, non-sponsored, community-supported ra...
Beginner
Presenters
Brandon Schmittling, Markus Hametner, Sam Lavigne, Sean Mahan, Thomas Lotze
After a busy day at SXSW, stop by Red 5 Studios Happy Hour to relax and enjoy a drink.......
The legendary interactive social experiment continues. This year frog will join with the Microsoft Coding4Fun group to create yet another playful look at technology. Take the short walk or the shorter shuttles leaving fr...
Sunday, March 11
Aching feet? Thirsty? Stop by Intel’s meet up lounge and decompress with internet access, refreshments, and good company.......
Marketing from Apple, Nintendo, and other companies focuses on the promise of an intuitive interface, but what does that really mean and how is it achieved? Over the last few decades we've seen QWERTY keyboards give way ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Matt Boch
A few years ago, Gearbox Software started a user research department called "Truth" while developing Borderlands. The team started with 2 people, no budget and a stack of flyers. By treating our testers as part...
Intermediate
Presenters
Matthew Armstrong, Stephanie Puri
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade is where the latest video game industry announcements, product demos and exciting game tournaments happen. ScreenBurn brings together the different worlds of gaming, including console, PC,...
Featuring Minecraft, COD: MW3 and more! LANFest is appreciating $5 cash, a can food item, or school supplies - where possible will benefit the Bastrop fire victims. Please come out and support this worthy cause with your...
The 2012 SXSW ScreenBurn Arcade sponsored by Alienware is the place to be for the latest gaming announcements, product demos, cosplay competitions and exciting professional gaming tournaments.......
Schedule available at SXSW.com.......
FREE and Open to the Public. Dylan Jobe, President of Austin video game developer LightBox Interactive, will discuss his upcoming PlayStation 3 blockbuster, Starhawk - a fast-paced third person shooter set in the lawless...
There is no question in our minds that eSports is the next major sport that will be followed by millions of people. Competitive gaming originated in the classic arcades of the 80s and 90s, but as the new generation has s...
Intermediate
Presenters
Anna Prosser, David Ting, Jung Won Chae, Kevin Lin
Nearly two decades ago, independent film ushered in a wave of new voices, new stories and a new way of looking at the industry. Fast forward to present day and independent games are reinvigorating an industry in the sam...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Saltsman, James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot, Phil Fish, Wiley Wiggins
FREE and Open to the Public. For the first time ever, Marvel - the world’s #1 comics publisher and one of the world’s leading entertainment companies - has joined forces with SXSW to deliver a panel like no other for...
FREE and open to the public. Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ launched at the end of 2011 after much anticipation from fans around the world. Come join Dallas Dickinson (the Director of Production) and the developers of...
FREE and open to the public. Critical Mass Interactive, Inc. (CMI) has returned to SXSW with “The Boondock Saints” franchise for a special panel and video game reveal, featuring Sean Patrick Flanery (Connor MacManus)...
Play is a human thing. Before games, even before language, we play. Play is the first tactic we use for understanding our environment and each other. Let's forget about "gamification" for a second (phew!) an...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Cerveny, Justin Hall, Robin Hunicke
The video game industry faces a transformative moment in its history. A recent landmark victory before the Supreme Court in the case of Brown v. EMA/ESA affirmed that free speech protections apply every bit as much to vi...
Intermediate
Presenters
Michael Gallagher
FREE and open to the public. Call of Duty has 30 million active gamers...and one service to unite them all. Neat trick, huh? As you might have guessed, it’s not as easy as that. How does the data get from point A to po...
FREE and open to the public. Check out a sneak peak mini-screening of new finished footage from Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker. Cassandra, a hot headed seeker from Orlais fearlessly engages the dreaded Blood Mages to end...
Developers are tapping into mobile devices’ built in features to produce feature-rich, social game experiences. Hear from gaming startups who are offering social education (Andrew Hsu, Airy Labs), alternate-reality (Gr...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Hsu, Gregory Trefry, Heather Sorensen, Mike Ouye, Pete Hawley
Come have a drink on Mocospace! The mobile social network for games.......
We will explore some of the current issues facing game production through a case study of EA’s Risk: Factions. This panel will address some of the perceived differences between console games and social games and will ...
Advanced
Presenters
Brad Graeber, Megan Kluck, Spencer Brooks
FREE and open to the public. In collaboration with Evil Pastry Studios, SXSW ScreenBurn presents its first Cosplay competition with cosplayers dressed as iconic video game characters. Prizes from IGN, GREE and SXSW Scree...
Come join us a the massively multiplayer Power Up Party, presented by GREE, with live bands presented by Alternative Press. Celebrate with live music from I Fight Dragons and Motion City Soundtrack.......
