Got Game Conference is back! In August 2013 we will have our second edition of this Amsterdam videogame conference. If you would like to participate as a speaker, sponsor, volunteer or guest, please contact us at info@ggconf.com

Got Game 2012 came to an end! Thanks to everybody that was a part of this. We hope to welcome you next year. If you have any suggestions, questions, comments or ideas for next year. Please drop them at: info@ggconf.com.

Registration starts at 8.30 at the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. Keizersgracht 102.

See you there!

In case you are arriving this weekend in Amsterdam, here are some options on what to do. And remember, the weather is going to be amazing!

- Prinsengrachtconcert: A classical music concert on the canals of Amsterdam, Saturday 18th, in front of the Pulitzer hotel. http://www.grachtenfestival.nl/concert_overview.vm

- Lowlands: The Netherland’s most famous festival on August 17th, 18th and 19th. Not in Amsterdam and probably sold out but definitely worth a shot if you’re a music lover. http://lowlands.nl/.

- Blijburg: The city beach in Amsterdam where it’s see and be seen. Great cocktails! http://www.blijburg.nl/

- De Parade: Theater, music, dance, food and drinks in a cute, hip atmoshpere. http://www.deparade.nl/default.asp?category=prog&subcat=a

- Vondelpark: Our ‘Central Park’ where you can sit, eat, relax,drink, walk, etc.

- Rent a boat: Rent a boat and enjoy Amsterdam from the water. There are plenty of companies where you can rent a boat: http://www.boaty.nl/, http://www.smidtje.nl, http://canalcompany.com/ne/index.php

(Auteur / Fotograaf: Geert Snoeijer)

On Monday August 27^th  takes place in Helsinki a one-day workshop that EGDF has organized together with Mobile Monday and Mobilegamearch.

The issues revolve around mobile games development

- “HTML5, the solution to fragmentation?” Charles “Chaals” McCathieNevile, Standards Expert at W3C, Wooga  and Kuusema

-  “Mobile cloud – reconnecting telecom to the mobile value chain?” with Harri Koponen (former CEO of TeliaSonera) – Executive Vice President at Rovio, MegaFon, Orange and Tequila Mobile

- “Investing in mobile games” with NeoGames, Tenshi ventures and IVentureCapital

Admission is free. Registration and further information can be found at

http://www.mobilegamearch.eu/events/helsinki2012/

SAE Institute provided us some amazing DJ’s to spin on Tuesday at the conference.

Let’s give it up for Jeroen, Sam & Chad!

Jack Stereo: http://soundcloud.com/jack-stereo & http://www.youtube.com/user/bootlegbasterds

Dj Sampagne: www.sampagne.nl

Chad Lee Jones (aka Process Rebel): www.subinfinity.com

Bob Loya is a veteran of over 11 years in the gaming industry, spending the majority of his career working for Vivendi Games.  Currently the Sr. Director of External Development at Activision, Bob is responsible for managing external development partnerships, execution of strategic new business ventures in mobile and console, and supporting internal studios needs.

He will join Mike Gamble (Epic Games) and Nick Button Brown (Crytek) on a panel about Defining AAA development and its future on Monday, August 20th.

Special guest Bor Verkroost with groundbreaking presentation: Games for the disabled gamers in times of ageing.

On Tuesday 21^st August, Bor Verkroost hosts a unique presentation at Amsterdam’s Got Game Conference. Only a few dare to touch this particular controversial topic: disabled gamers. Designers of video games often forget to take this niche market into account, and that is unfortunate. All hardcore gamers eventually become less mobile. Moreover, at the moment there are about 2.4 million elderly in the Netherlands. In the year 2025 there will be 3.7 million and rising. The number of elderly people, thus gamers will increase explosively.

During this session, Bor invites the audience to think about the difficult but unavoidable question: What can we, gaming experts, do in times where the tools and games are becoming increasingly mobile; full of real movements and complicated controllers. “Ageing and the new technologies are as opposed as fire and water. And not to forget, perhaps us disabled are even more fanatic at gaming than the average gamer. Our limited mobility may lead to less social contacts and can be reasons to find indoor entertainment and play games. And to think that more than one million Dutch have a limitation. Think of the blind, deaf, wheelchair users, etc. Add to that the elderly and we are left with quite a sizeable audience to take into account”, explains Bor.

For more information about Bor Verkroost check out:  www.eborfoundation.com

“In just a few years the games industry has seen dramatic changes-from selling boxed products to now offering freemium games. But at the same time player acquisition costs for mobile and online games are skyrocketing and still more and more games are flooding the market. Oliver Kern, Director of Performance and Intelligence at IQU will provide an overview of the State-of-Play from a marketing perspective and highlight the Do’s and Don’ts when deciding to self-publish a great game. The audience will gain a better understanding of the marketplace and the influencing factors of successful go to market strategies” Oliver Kern, IQU. Tuesday, August 21^st 14.00-15.00 hours.

About IQU
We founded iQU™ in 2009 to service the online interactive entertainment market. As gamers ourselves, we saw that although the industry was growing rapidly, there was little information available about the gamers driving that growth. So we created GameriQU™, a sophisticated platform that maps gamer behavior, and we now operate the most comprehensive database of online gamer profiles. GameriQU tracks gamer activities wherever they happen, across multiple platforms and around the world. We apply this behavioral knowledge to form connections between gamers, publishers and advertisers, creating a more robust marketplace for online games.
For more information visit www.iqu.com.

Line-up: Alexander Fernandez (Streamline Media Group), Matias Myllyrinne (US- Remedy Games), Peter Kirsch (Attaction), Sean Kauppinen (US- IDE Agency), Erik ‘t Sas (NL- Rough Cookie), Dave Lang (US- Iron Galaxy Studios), Mike Gamble (Epic Games), Nick Button Brown (Crytek), Sam Glassenberg (Funtactix), Oliver Kern (NL- IQU), Erwin Hennink (NL- Vectrix), Ilja Goossens (NL- Gamundo), Bor Verkroost (NL- 1-UP), Richard van der Giessen (NL- U-trax), Thijmen Bink (NL- Digital Dreams), Olivier Oosterbaan (NL- Create Law), Joris & Bart Verschoor (NL- Bloomsix), Don Geyer (SE- Threegates), Michiel Sala (NL- Little Chicken) and more!

For the full program click here.