Complete event listing for
SXSW Gaming and Create
Friday, March 7
After years of speculation the next generation of gaming consoles have arrived, but does gaming's future belong to traditional publishers producing AAA games or have indie and mobile game creators and the advent of new b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Howard, Casey Lynch, John Davison
Video game development is a fast-paced and competitive industry. Having real-time access to the right data lets you turn on a dime and capture market trends you might otherwise miss. This session discusses how PlayStatio…
Intermediate
Presenters
Tyler Gaede, Zane Mumford
Ernie Cline, author of the New York Times and internationally bestselling novel Ready Player One, discusses his eagerly anticipated new novel Armada, including the surprising inspirations for the novel and how deeply it …
Beginner
Presenters
Ernie Cline
Some of the most creative and successful video game marketing campaigns have tapped into the power of original music production to raise awareness of the game, to expand its creative universe, and to feed fans' insatiabl…
Beginner
Presenters
Jason Menkes, Ravi Krishnaswami, Steve Perkins
'Press start to begin' is the message gamers have been greeted with since the early days of interactive entertainment. Hitting that start button is typically the player’s first interaction with a game after putting in th…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Sinclair, Michael Dunn, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Ron Burke
In this presentation, we will show some beginning basics to get you started, give student examples, and show how Scratch can be applied across the curriculum. You will discover how to get students interested in basic gam…
Beginner
Presenters
Carl Hooker, Juan Orozco, Todd Gratehouse
Do you have to be a programmer to have a career in the gaming industry? Join James Lopez as he discusses alternative careers in the gaming industry with gamers who have taken their gaming passion and have created busines…
Beginner
Presenters
Anthony Frasier, Cj Peters, James Lopez, Jarvis Brown
In May 2013, creative studio and game developer Fuel Entertainment was officially granted permission to excavate within a 100-acre landfill in the Alamogordo, New Mexico desert. The goal? Search for the fabled Atari E.T…
Advanced
Presenters
Jonathan Chinn, Mike Burns
Ernie Cline will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign commemorative postcards for his soon to be released book “ Armada” and copies of "Ready Player One: A Novel".……
Presenters
Ernie Cline
It takes more than a few good uppercuts to fight your way to the top of the entertainment industry. From a #1 selling video game franchise, to an animated and live action feature film success, to an Internet meme generat…
Beginner
Presenters
Craig Skistimas, Josh Kocurek
Sesame Workshop, Qualcomm and Two Bulls recently partnered to develop a new type of gaming experience for preschoolers. Using Qualcomm’s AllJoyn technology combined with the Unity SDK, this multi-screen game prototype s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Vogelsang, Jessie Hopkins, John Cameron, Noah Harlan
Gaming is an advertising medium which is driven by engaging content and cross-platform solutions and, increasingly, brands are taking notice with higher advertising spending across console, social and mobile. During thi…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Berkowitz, Jack Koch, Michael Flamberg, Susan Borst
Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, will sit down in a fireside chat to talk about his background in game development, what he's learned about developing immersive game experiences and how he will use that to inform his vision for…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Wilson, Noah Robischon
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Advanced
Presenters
Eugene Hsu
Mobile and tablet devices are critical platforms for communicating social good messages with young children and their parents. But in this decidedly new frontier, what are the rules? The youngest generation is a captive…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alison Bryant, Anastasia Goodstein, Judith Beauregard, Scott Traylor
Poster Designer meet up will consist of local and international artists and designers getting together to hang out and network. Designers of all mediums and skill level are encouraged to attend. Free screen printed poste…
Beginner
Presenters
Bobby Dixon
Mobile Game User Acquisition is becoming a virtual war zone with the App Store, Google Play and other marketplaces proving to be a vicious battle ground where the strongest survive and reap billions of dollars in revenue…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jo Wightman
Saturday, March 8
Fruit Ninja is the number 2 most downloaded app of all time. Since its launch in 2010, it has racked up 500 million downloads and is played by 70 million monthly active users. Australian developers Halfbrick and their en…
Intermediate
Presenters
Hugh Walters, Phil Larsen, Sam White, Susan Swinburne
MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe sits with Mashable's Chief Strategy Officer Adam Ostrow to publicly discuss for the first time his challenging transition from leading the web's former social media giant into disrupting …
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Ostrow, Chris DeWolfe
From G.I. JOE to The Walking Dead and The Simpsons, many of our favorite franchises in comics, books, film, music, and television are finding new homes and rejuvenated lives on mobile devices. Game developers and publish…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Phan, Margaret Wallace, Terry Redfield
As the mobile audience continues to grow at an exponential rate and App Stores become increasingly cluttered, game companies are challenged to develop games that will stand out against the competition in a crowded market…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Loeb, Callum Rowley, Ethan Einhorn, Tim Fields
There are many trends in videogames and technology today that will influence and even dominate the next ten years. What happens when multiple trends collide to create heretofore-unknown results? For example imagine takin…
Advanced
Presenters
Starr Long
What’s it like to develop both digital and paper-based games and what does each have to teach you about the other? Designing interactions and creating rich game spaces is a complicated affair. This panel of indie game de…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Saltsman, George Royer
The Indie development movement has leveled the playing field for getting a good idea to market. This also means there are more titles fighting for a finite number of "gaming hours". With 20% of the US population having a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Barlet
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eric Seufert
Join Telltale Games President and Co-Founder, Kevin Bruner, along with his team of designers and storytellers as they discuss their vision of the future of entertainment from both inside and outside of the studio walls. …
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Walton, Kevin Bruner
Today's gamers generate enormous amounts of information every time they launch a game. That time you blew yourself up accidentally? Publishers and developers saw it. Those 20 minutes you wandered around lost with no idea…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Morris , Jeremy Ballenger, Lenin Gali, Tom Hess
Video games are a major cultural force worldwide, but reflect only a tiny fraction of our culture. They can be fun, exciting and immersive, but why are so few heartbreaking, inspirational, personal, or subversive? Zoe …
Beginner
Presenters
Alexander Sheive, Zoe Quinn
We will entertainingly chronicle the development of The Banner Saga from conception, through preproduction, Kickstarter campaign, production, and finally launch of the game. We will show plenty of behind the scenes mult…
Beginner
Presenters
Arnie Jorgensen, John Watson
Digital literacy is the future of communication and commerce and creates learning experiences that develop students' capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination and innovation. Digital communication require…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bruce Pennycook, Doug Dempster, Jennifer Ransom Rice, Warren Spector
Gamers grow up and become parents. But societal values make gamers feel bad about time spent gaming, prompting players to retire controllers once babies are born. But gamers do not have to choose between parent and gamer…
Intermediate
Presenters
Carla Fisher
"Remedy Entertainment on how game development is like Breaking Bad: Cook, Deal, become the Kingpin." Remedy Entertainment, developers of Max Payne, Death Rally, Alan Wake and their upcoming Xbox One title Quantum Break h…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matias Myllyrinne
Sunday, March 9
Is your dream job to work in the video game industry? There are job opportunities not just in design, programming, and art – but for testers, marketing and PR, office culture, trade show coordinators, social media, custo…
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Swanson, Felicia Williams, Julian Gerighty, Sarah Fuchs
A group of pros show off the first games they ever developed, so you can learn from their successes, failures, and hilarious life advice. These brave souls will drop their trousers (not really) and give live demos of the…
Beginner
Presenters
David Bisceglia, Ichiro Lambe, Noah Heller, Seth Sivak
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Nathan Hanners
Get together with fellow mobile app developers for an hour of brainstorming, tip-sharing, networking and friend-making. Already making cloud-powered mobile apps? Curious about using cloud services to speed up development…
Intermediate
Presenters
Patrick Curry
Can we game our way to better health? In 2013 HopeLab released Re-Mission 2, the follow-up to its groundbreaking video game for young people fighting cancer. Learn how brain science, an unconventional development model, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Fred Dillon, Richard Tate
As we work to support women in technology, it’s essential that we provide inspiration and role models for the youngest generations to aspire to the sciences. There's much celebration that girls make up 47% of gamers, but…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jennifer Oxley, Lindsey Shepard, Ryan Kelley, Sara DeWitt
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Phillips
Video games have come a long way since the early days of Pac-Man. The graphics are crisper, the scores more powerful and the consoles more inter-connected with other household devices. Yet for all these advances, the bas…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Palatucci, Sean Levatino
It has been more than 42 years since the general public first got their hands on video games. Today there are more people gaming than ever before, via traditional platforms from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC to dev…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Wiseman, Patrick Scott Patterson, Rachel Lara
No longer a rainy-day pastime, board games are enjoying a huge resurgence of interest lately, a golden age of rich and engaging face-to-face entertainments driven by unique characteristics of design and publishing. As ga…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cory Jones, Kristin Looney, Mark Wallace, Mark Kaufmann
This informal conversational session features Jade Raymond, managing director of Ubisoft Toronto and co-creator of the award-winning Assassin's Creed franchise. The Assassin’s Creed Franchise is adored by fans all over t…
Beginner
Presenters
Geoff Keighley, Jade Raymond
Phil Spencer leads Microsoft Studios and oversees creative teams around the world developing games, entertainment and premium content experiences for Microsoft’s family of devices including Xbox One, Xbox 360, Kinect, Su…
Intermediate
Presenters
Geoff Keighley, Phil Spencer
The debate surrounding narratives in games generally centers around player agency and interactivity. Some believe narratives enrich games, while others wish for purely system-based experiences. What is the future of narr…
Intermediate
Presenters
Davey Wreden, John Warren, Jordan Mallory, Shay Pierce
Mr. Layton’s presentation, titled “Racing in Reverse: The Quantitative Relationship Between Overtime, Defects and Project Slippage,” discusses the downsides of overtime as it relates to productivity, ways to accelerate p…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Layton
This panel will provide a high level overview of what the Indie MEGABOOTH is, how it got started and what types of challenges we faced. This includes anecdotes about changing career paths, grassroots community building,…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christopher Floyd, Kelly Wallick
Video games are a unique medium. Players assume roles, interact with worlds, and experience situations in ways that simply aren't possible in any other entertainment format. When it comes to character and situation desi…
Beginner
Presenters
Beth Elderkin, Develon Douglas, Samantha Lopez
Monday, March 10
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Jim Galis
Tuesday, March 11
There are Rumors of Apple TV’s integration of gaming, an Amazon’s set top console, and multiple other Big Players entering the market. Let’s talk about what this means for gamers and game developers. Is gaming just a ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Clay Hillhouse, Mark Gerberman
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