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EAST COAST GAME CONFERENCE

The largest gathering of video game professionals on the East Coast WILL RETURN April 16-18, 2019

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EAST COAST GAME CONFERENCE (ECGC)

The East Coast Game Conference (ECGC), the largest gathering of video game professionals on the east coast, returns for its eleventh year. The focus of the conference is to provide video game developers an engaging program and opportunities for networking and collaboration. In 2019, in addition to great keynote speakers, there will be plenty of networking opportunities with some of the greatest minds in the industry.

Adam Sessler to keynote ECGC 2019

Adam Sessler is best known for his work since 1998 hosting a trio of television shows about video games; Gamespot TV, Extended Play and X-Play. Known for his strong opinions, off-beat sense of humor and deep desire to explain and open up the pleasures of games to a wider audience he became one of the most recognizable faces of the industry, (despite his desire for the game developers themselves to hold that title). After a brief stint designing video content for Rev 3 Games he left the camera altogether and used his experience to start a consulting company, TheoryHead Inc, and became co-founder of Spiketrap, an AI-driven analytics/sentiment tool that understands the vernacular of video games.

Warren Robinett ECGC 2019 keynote: From Atari to Virtual Reality

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH

Warren Robinett was educated at Rice and Berkeley, and his subsequent 40-year career path resembled the trajectory of a small steel ball being catapulted from bumper to bumper in a pinball machine. He designed video games at Atari, designed educational games at (and co-founded) the Learning Company, was an early VR researcher at NASA and UNC, and was a computer-architecture researcher at HP Labs. This talk covers the first few ricochets in that career path—design of video games (focusing on Adventure), educational games (Rocky’s Boots), and VR systems (the NanoManipulator). This food for thought is served up with the crude and quaint graphics of yesteryear as the main course, and with selected implementation details and political stories as side dishes.

2019 Summits and Tutorials

ECGC 2019 has a variety of Summits and Tutorials to choose from. These events take place over a day, providing detailed focus on each topic. Grab a seat, come listen and learn from some of the best and brightest in the game development industries.

Dr. Farhad Javidi

Founder and CEO of Simbryo

Summit: Indie Game Development

Toiya Kristen Finley

Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Game Writer, and Editor for Schnoodle Media, LLC

Summit: Narrative Tutorial

Michael Briscoe

Educator in Residence at American Society of Naval Engineers

Summit: Education

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ECGC T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION

The winning designer will have their T-shirt printed and featured at this year’s East Coast Game Conference on April 16th-18th, 2019. As well as having your design featured, the winner will also receive two VIP tickets to attend the conference.

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