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W Love Games 2023 Program
Welcome to the event!
We are delighted to present this year's program
NOTE: The event is following Finnish time zone, UTC +3, EEST
Thursday, October 12
TIME
STAGE 💜💜 - Online
09.00 - 10.00
Signups, coffee and networking
10.00 - 10.15
Welcoming words
10.15 - 11.00
KEYNOTE:
EVOLVING STORYTELLING
IN RETURNAL
How to craft a haunting story
Eevi Korhonen, Housemarque
11.00 - 11.30
How to build strong
cross-cultural teams :
a journey from the Himalayas to Helsinki
Neha Joshi, Metacore
Meet the teams from our SHOWROOM!
WORKSHOPS - Aura, Oodi 2nd floor
11.00 - 12.00 Workshop: Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Recruitment by Essi Jukkala, We in Games Finland / Supercell
11.30 - 12.00
The importance of
in-house QA
Alexandru Gospodin, Redhill Games
Meet the teams from our SHOWROOM!
12.00 - 13.00
LUNCH BREAK
13.00 - 14.00
KEYNOTE:
From Punk to Pixels:
How A Youth In Subculture Lead To A Career in Games
Licia Prehn, Next Games - Netflix
Crossing Latitudes: Brazil-Finland Game Jam
13.00 - 14.30
Audio Workshop by Rob Carr, Redhill Games
14.00 - 15.00
Epic Games and
Unreal Engine in 2023
Ari Arnbjörnsson, Epic Games
Emotional Game Design:
Bringing Emptions to
Video Games
Marina Díez, Three of Cups Games
15.00 - 16.00
KEYNOTE:
Negotiation Tactics
in the Games Business
Katharina Schmidt, Rovio
16.00 - 17.30
IGDA Finland Mentor Cafe - Oodi top (3rd) floor ​
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NETWORKING
19.00
WLG23 PARTY
Demo corner with games made at Crossing Latitudes Jam 2023
Friday, October 13
TIME
STAGE 💜 - Online
09.00 - 10.00
Morning coffee and networking
10.00 - 11.00
KEYNOTE:
African Video Games Industry
Eyram Tawia, Leti Arts
11.00 - 11.30
Game expats study:
Game industry, immigration, game dev cultures, and cross-cultural online jamming
Solip Park, Aalto University
11.30 - 12.00
Adam Al-Sawad, Kalla Gameworks
STAGE 💜💜 - Online
Indie Marketing for Everyone
Dina Ramse, Dina Said So Studio
Crediting
Nazih Fares, The 4 Winds Entertainment
WORKSHOPS - Discord
11.00 - 12.00
Game Design Roundtable by Taha Rasouli, Ava Games
12.00 - 12.30
LUNCH BREAK
Portfolio and CV reviews
13.00 - 13.30
Party, but for whom? Safety and belonging in the Finnish game industry
Taina Myöhänen, University of Tampere
14.00 - 15.00
Game Art in the Age of AI Roundtable by Natasha Skult, MiTale
13.30 - 14.00
Procedural
Content Generation Tool
in Unreal
Joseph Azzam, Them Ask
Production with love, cultivating creativity by showing you care
Kim Kupiainen, Huuuge Games
14.00 - 14.30
A Portfolio Gamechanger: Game Jams & Challenges as a way to break into the industry
Oleg Paliy, Games Factory Talents
Women's Wellbeing in Games
Suzanne Freyjadis, IGDA
14.30 - 15.00
15.00 - 16.00
KEYNOTE: Kshiraj Telang, Moon Active
16.00 - 16.30
ANNOUNCING WINNERS OF WLG ART COMPETITION
16.30 - 17.00
Summary of the event - panel with the organizers, closing words
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!
A VIDEO GAME ASSOCIATION FOR FEMALE AND GENDER MINORITY PLAYERS
Marianne Määttä & Christina Piirainen, Female Gaming Finland
Retrospective Reflections:
5 Years of WiGFi
Mentorship Program
Salla Hiiskoski, We in Games Finland, Metacore
The Science of
High-Performance
Game Development Teams
Scott M. Graffius / Exceptional PPM
12.30 - 13.00
Improving Game Engine Independence with an Open Source Asset Pipeline
Jani Kahrama, Secret Exit
Emotional Game Design:
Bringing Emptions to
Video Games
Marina Díez, Three of Cups Games
MEET W LOVE GAMES 2023
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