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GCAP 2019

Adam Woodhead

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Audio Visual Technician
Frankston, Victoria

I will be on site to assist the presenters to ensure they and their audience have the best GCAP.

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11:00am AEDT

Championing Others Starts With Championing Yourself — Creating a Mentally Healthy Work Environment Room 106Pritika Sachdev Prototyping into Production - Technical and Creative Convergence Room 104Dean Finnigan Finding The Right Voice Actors for Your Game Room 103Aimee Smith Pitching Games to Publishers Room 109Cheryl Vance Puzzles to be explored but not solved: Designing ambiguous navigable worlds Room 105Alexander Muscat Strategies for Quality ContentTM Room 112Emily D'Elia Can I have that in a spreadsheet please? Room 110Cherie Davidson Engineering Live Ops on Call of Duty: WWII Room 111Josh Caratelli

12:00pm AEDT

Indigenous Culture in Video Games Room 106Phoebe Watson Anime and the illusion of visual simplicity Room 105Ngoc Vu Composing the music for Florence and Necrobarista Room 104Kevin Penkin Mobile pre-launch optimisation: What we did right, and what we learned from the fails Room 103Christina Chen Subverting Genres: I Think I Rogue-Like You Room 110Lucy Morris What to Expect when you’re expecting (a producer) Room 109Lisy Kane Shipping, Ports, and Other Naval-based Parts of Game Development Room 112Neil Forbes-Richardson

2:00pm AEDT

On Your Left: Survival, Support and Growth of our Industry Room 112Stephan Schutze Colour AntiTheory Room 104Izzy Gramp The Life Of a Japanese Composer, with Manami Matsumae (ft Alex Aniel as translator) Room 106Alexander Aniel • Manami Matsumae Co-operative Game Development Room 103Maize Wallin • Jason Bakker Visual Game Design: keeping teams aligned through minimal documentation Room 110Alex Carlyle Wild Life: Critter Clash Paid User Acquisition Postmortem Room 111Katie Stegs Ensuring the Quality of your Quality Assurance: the studio guide on getting the most out of your QA team Room 105Callum Harrington Machine Learning for Boardgame AI in Race for the Galaxy PlenaryTheresa Duringer

3:00pm AEDT

Designing from the Heart: Putting yourselves in your games. PlenaryOsama Dorias Being a multi-disciplinary artist: games, film and beyond Room 103Hannah Crosby [NOT RUNNING] Defining The Audio Direction For Dead Static Drive. Room 109Trevor Dikes Storm Boy: The Game Game Director Postmortem Room 104Ellen Jurik Making Games More Interactive on Twitch Room 105Richard Deveraux Production Process, Publishing & Platforms: A Simultaneous Release Crash Course Room 106Samuel McCully Prototype Speedrun - Building a UE4 Prototype in Under an Hour Room 110Alex Stevens • Chris Murphy

4:30pm AEDT

Who are you helping and how? Room 103Shane Trewartha Shining a Light on Graphics Performance Room 106Edward Blanch Claude De-goosey: On turning classical piano into videogame serendipity PlenaryDan Golding Unpacking Game Design: Creating a game without fail states or scores Room 110Wren Brier Player Hygiene: How to Mitigate Abuse and Cultivate Communities Room 112Gabriella Lowgren More Cards Against People Mismanagement Room 109Emilie Poissenot Monitoring performance on massive games. Room 104Tony Albrecht

10:00am AEDT

Accessibility as a primary design consideration: the early journey of Blind Sparrow Interactive Room 106Drew Taylor Using Games Design in Citizen Science Room 104Lisa Evans Work in Progress: Lessons learned from experience as a 3D artist Room 105Jessica Da Silva Where to from here? Putting the spotlight on the Australian games industry Room 110Philip Mayes The Forest Paths Method of Narrative Design Room 109Alexander Swords Graphic Design and Videogames Room 112Studio at Large Zen and the Art of Team Maintenance: A Producers Guide to Getting Sh!t Done PlenaryAmy Dallas

11:00am AEDT

Workplace ready: Making your workplace transgender friendly Room 104Sav Emmett Wolfe Tovertafel - Games for Health PlenarySjoerd Wennekes Forecasting success: How to be a financially sustainable studio Room 110Luke Henry The Architecture of Designing story-focussed Games - Lighting the Way through the Narrative Room 109Melanie Taylor The clothes that words wear: A typographic journey via Rihanna, Abba, KISS, Lady GaGa, George Michael and lots, lots more. Room 112Stephen Banham Thank U, Next: Embracing Change in Stormy Weather Room 106Ally McLean Getting the horse to drink: Optimising a high fidelity console game for mobile platforms Room 105Megan Bowra-Dean

12:00pm AEDT

Sonar Solutions For Accessible Gaming Room 103Zander Hulme Games as a Therapeutic Tool Room 106Erick Blandin The Art of Void Bastards Room 105Dean Walshe Changing your career in games without having an existential crisis PlenaryJo Lammert Flow Chart - How Scope Creep Happens Room 109Leigh Harris Don’t Get Shipwrecked - Production for Small Indies Room 110Matthew Dyet Always be testing: A journey through Buildbots and Testbots Room 104Ben Britten • Matt Ditton Technical Direction for One Room 112Alex Holkner

2:00pm AEDT

Realtalk; Politics, games, and the inescapable maw of responsibility. Room 103Zhia Zariko Unreal Tips and Tricks - Epic Mega-hour Room 106Alex Stevens • Chris Murphy Who owns what? How to protect your game's intellectual property Room 105Yasmin Naghavi A New Way To Narrative Design Room 111Alexander Swords Rapid Prototyping 101: Crucial UX Design skills for every team Room 109Anna Brandberg Why Fashion in (Most) Games Sucks, and Why You Should Care PlenaryVictoria Tran What Unionism Adds To Your Workplace Room 112David Haidon • Morgan Little So you want to make a multiplayer game? Room 104June Rhodes

3:00pm AEDT

Music Therapy in Virtual Reality Room 110Ben Loveridge Why did medieval knights fight giant snails? And what does this have to do with games? Room 105Paris Buttfield-Addison Technical Breakdown of scenes in John Wick 3 PlenaryGlenn Melenhorst Evolving Together Room 103Stefano Martincigh Ship it: An incomplete server-side checklist Room 109Luis van Slageren

11:00am AEDT

Unreal Heavy Hitters - Shave Years off of Development Room 106Alex Stevens VMDO Presents: Games + Music; Your Perfect Soundtrack Room 110Yasmin Naghavi • Sebastian Wolff • Mason Lieberman • Niamh Houston • Fabian Malabello State Agency Games Funding - What it is, why it is, and who can apply for it Room 109Jason Imms Divergent thinking and iteration process: a hands-on creativity workshop Room 104Elaine Gusella Technical Production - Series Room 107Elizabeth Blythe

11:40am AEDT

Lessons in Unconventional Networking Room 105Noni Och

12:00pm AEDT

Disability & Game Development Room 109Calliope Ryder • Zala Habib • Cameron Hopkinson • Meredith Hall

12:30pm AEDT

Emotional Architecture - Understanding Audio (and Ourselves) Room 105Andrew Curnock

2:00pm AEDT

Advanced Technical Art in Unreal Engine Room 106Chris Murphy BIG MOOD Lighting: Illustrating with Illumination Room 107Benjamin Ee Lessons from Free to Play For Now and the Future Room 109Ella Macintyre Programming: The First Few Years Room 105Liam de Valmency Building Community Panel Room 110Lisy Kane • Cass Gray • Jon Hayward • Giselle Rosman • Chad Toprak

3:00pm AEDT

Games for Government Panel Room 110Adrian Webb • Timothy Bermanseder • Jake Spencer Goodsir • Stuart Anderson Launching Your Game in China? Here is What We've Learnt! Room 109Jessica Paulin • Xin Zhao • Jordan Comino • Jazna Rossi • Prathay Chandrakumar Being A Game Design Tradie Room 105Nic Wechter