Thank you everyone!
06 November 2011
WOW! What a wild time that was!!
Thanks to everyone that made it along, all the speakers, crew, venue and of course our sponsors who made it all possible!
We are all agreed it’s YOU that made our first festival such a great experience, and it’s our core ideals of sharing, creating and inspiring that drives us on and on! We have had such a good time bringing you a new new indie games festival for the UK, that we are all agreed, it would be rude not to do the same next year!!
So stay tuned for further updates, new game jams, joint partner events and of course all the photos and videos that will keep you entertained until we can do it all again next year, bigger and better!
Thanks once again! :)
Conference speakers announced!
06 October 2011
Well, just look what we have in store for you lucky lucky people!
Extended Play kicks off with an exclusive VIP event on Thursday evening, with an introductory keynote speech from Richard Wilson, CEO of the UK gaming industry representative body TIGA, who will highlight the importance of the indie games development community within the UK’s growing games industry against the backdrop of the National Marine Aquarium’s Eddystone Reef.
Friday features a keynote in the evening from Ian Livingstone OBE, who will give a visual account of the history of computer games, charting his struggles as an entrepreneur in the 1970s, when he launched Dungeons & Dragons, and giving a detailed case history of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He completes a stellar line-up of industry speakers over the course of Friday and Saturday, also including chief Guardian games correspondent Keith Stuart, Channel 4 Education Commissioner Jo Twist, Preloaded Creative Director Phil Stuart, and the BBC’s Ian Hamilton. The conference will cover key topics that surround the theme of ‘games as a service.’
On Saturday, we headline with Paul Taylor, Director of Indie development studio Mode 7 and creators of the groundbreaking Frozen Synapse, talking about the risk and rewards for Indie Development passing on some top tips to all of the festival attendees!
For more info on all of our speakers, talks and keynotes, check out the links above here!
