August 2015, Casual Connect is a mixture of app developers and mobile game giants, as well as advertising behemoths and a slew of other types of marketing companies, user acquisition, user engagement, etc. Some of the standouts at the show were Clicksmob a mobile performance network, Appsflyer which provides a dashboard to help you run…
March 3, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—A panel described the failings of AI systems in various programs. Dave Mark from Intrinsic Algorithm acted as moderator, with panelists including Brian Schwab from Magic Leap, Steve Rabin form Digipen Institute of Technology, Marty Singer an independent developer, Kevin Dill from Lockheed-Martin, and Rez Graham from Maxis….
March 2015 – In a new location in San Francisco atop the Metreon Center, the Game Connection conference held their US event. Well attended by over 15 exhibiting countries, the representatives covered the ecosystem from libraries and modules, to game development services, to game developers look for foreign publishers, to publishers to the economic development…
August 2014 – The UC Hastings Law School acted as the organizers and coordinators for the first TechLaw Startup Weekend that was held at AirBnB’s headquarters in San Francisco. The five organizers from Hastings for the event were Kristen Killian, BethMcCarthy, Hanna Konitshek, Gabby Grinberg and Ashley Dymond. The 2.5 day event was run by…
July 23, 2014, Casual Connect Conference, San Francisco—A panel looked at the pressures that technology changes will bring to mobile gaming. Kyle Russell from TechCrunch moderated the panel with panelists Greg Hartrell from Google, Jean-Christophe Cimertiere from Unity, and Brian Shin from Pocket Gems. New platforms? Hartrell noted that game developers are considering second screen…
May 2014, Before the door opened for the 2014 Digital Dragon Conference held in Krakow, the press was invited to visit and get a tour at two of Poland’s many independent game development companies. We visited Bloober and Drago Entertainment, both of which were enthusiastic about host a press tour of their teams. Digital Dragon…
October 29. 2013, GamesBeat Conference, Redwood City, CA—Dean Takahashi spoke with Mark DeLoura, the senior advisor for digital media at the White House Office of Science and Technology. The talks covered a wide range of topics including coding literacy, analytics, game-brain interactions and research, and areas of applications. How did you get this job? I…
March 26, 2013, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Four educators offered their thoughts on teaching game development. Clara Fernandez-Vara from MIT, Michael Mateas from UC Santa Cruz, Ian Schreiber, an independent developer, and Jose Zagal from DePaul offered their opinions on the state and nature of game education. Zagal started out decrying the practice of using…
May 21, 2012, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Jeffery Hammond from Forrester Research tried to define a winning mobile application strategy for developers. The role of mobile apps is becoming more important due to the very high volume of mobile devices. Next generation mobile devices will be a part of a very large market. 850k…
March 6, 2012, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Jussi Laakkonen from Applifier talked about the movement from general social media over the Web to smart phones. The emergence of a most personal device is changing the nature of social media. The rationale for smart phones is to have paying customers use more functions and time on…