Austin Game Developers Conference schedule

AGDC is coming up, and here’s my speaking schedule:

Designing for Everywhere

• Raph Koster

 Wednesday, 11:00am — 12:00pm Online Games – Design/
60-minute Lecture

In the last few years, big strides have been made towards understanding how games work, in a bones-and-blood sort of sense. We now understand much more than we did about the interactions between mechanics, the pacing of goal structures, and the way in which aesthetics and “dressing” work with the game structures. This can lead towards new ways to create games, ways that work better with our increasingly wired world. The rising wave involves user participation and creation, multiplatform, always connected entertainment, and rapid development. In this lecture, we’ll explore design and technology approaches that push towards the goal of “play anywhere” using these criteria as design principles.

Startup Lessons from Recent Online Games

• Daniel James
• Anthony Castoro
• Raph Koster
• Joe Ybarra
• Nabeel Hyatt

 Thursday, 4:30pm — 5:30pm Online Games – Business & Management/
60-minute Panel

This august panel of the founders of recent hot MMO startups will get down and dirty with the details of how to do (and how not to do) the startup thing. Topics discussed will include: -Financing – how and where to get it, VC or publishing; -Licensing and IPs – build or buy? -Web 2oh – Bubble or basics? -Distribution -Revenue models -and trying to hire and recruit in boom times.

Where are the Biggest Online Gaming Opportunities?

• Matt Firor
• Mark Jacobs
• John Smedley
• Erik Bethke
• Raph Koster

Friday, 1:30pm — 2:30pm Online Games – Business & Management/
60-minute Panel