Get Your Game Funded
Alex Nichiporchik
CEO, tinyBuild
Anlu Liu
Content Manager, Kowloon Nights
Anne-Lou Grosbois-Favreau
Global Brand Manager, Square Enix External Studios
Erik Peterson
Business Development, Valve
Jakub (Koobs) Klitenik
Indie Publishing Social and Community Manager, Square Enix Collective
Jen MacLean
General Manager, Game Creator Partnerships at Xbox
Joe Yuan
Investment Director, Hiro Capital
Joshua Brown
Marketing Manager, FuturLab
Matt Bilbey
Venture Partner, London Venture Partners
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Rebecca Sweetmore
Head of Marketing and Communications, FuturLab
Shawn Layden
Snow Rui
President and CFO, Hooded Horse
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Registration
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Welcome and Fireside Chat with Shawn Layden
The former head of PlayStation Studios and current advisor to major companies such as Tencent will discuss the past, present and future of video games -
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Creating Thousand Hour Long Experiences - Alex Nichiporchik (TinyBuild)
The CEO of TinyBuild will discuss the importance of emergent gameplay, and why the industry is not seeing enough games with it -
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How Square Enix and FuturLab took PowerWash Simulator to 7m players - Anne-Lou Grosbois-Favreau (Square Enix), Jakub Klitenik (Square Enix), Rebecca Sweetmore (Futurlab), Joshua Brown (Futurlab)
The publisher and developer tell us how they teamed up to deliver the indie hit to millions of fans -
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Steam Visibility: How Games Get Surfaced To Players - Erik Peterson (Valve)
Valve will explain how game visibility works on Steam and what developers can do to improve their chances -
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Break
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Fireside Chat with Jen MacLean of Xbox
The general manager of Game Creator Partnerships will talk about opportunities with Xbox, the state of the market and offer her advice to indie teams -
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The Games Investment Panel - Anlu Liu (Kowloon/Kepler), Joe Yuan (Hiro), Matt Bilbey (LVP), Snow Rui (Hooded Horse)
Leading investors and publishers will talk about a difficult 2023, where things are heading and what developers should be mindful of when seeking financial support -
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Lunch
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One-To-One Meetings
A series of 20-minute one-to-one meetings set-up via the MeetToMatch meeting system
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The current state of games investment
Investors and publishers discuss the biggest challenges of the past few years, and how this might change when global economic uncertainty eases
Shawn Layden issues warning about non-endemics breaking into games
But former PlayStation boss is hopeful games businesses can disrupt itself before the likes of Google and Amazon