ECGC Newsletter Vol 2, Issue 1

ECGC News! 50 Days and Counting!

The Latest:

Speakers, Contests and Deals!

T-minus 50 days to ECGC 2022!

It's been a busy few weeks for the ECGC team. We're confirming speaker session submissions, fielding exhibitor inquiries, reviewing contest entries, planning VIP event and after parties.

This newsletter highlights our first confirmed speakers, discounted booth space, Indie Alley tables and conference tickets. Deadlines for submission to the juried art show and t-shirt contest are below as well.

While we are to working diligently to bring our guests the best conference possible, consider attending IndieGame Business Sessions, March 9-10. The newsletter contains a link to claiming free tickets to the virtual event.

Se Keep up with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and watch your inbox for more news.

Until next time,

Troy, Walter, Cindy & Jane

Speaker Preview

We're excited to highlight the first of our speakers

Rachel Presser

How to Address Communications Challenges in Small Indie Teams

One of the biggest misconceptions about game development is that you'll code all day, and that going indie isn't any different except you've traded your home for the office. This couldn't be more wrong! Poor communication can cause projects of any scale to go awry, whether it's a low-budget sidescroller or the latest AAA blockbuster. But when it comes to independent development, communication can become more challenging based on your style, background, and other factors. Improving your communications skills and learning how to work with people in specific roles can level up your game in no time.

Max Litvinov

PRACTICAL MAGIC - Life of a Gameplay Engineer

The game industry is trending upward with more and more concurrent worldwide players and new studios forming every year. Playing a video game may seem like it was created with magic but in reality large AAA video game titles are developed over many years with the help of many disciplines. One of those disciplines that help create this practical magic is a gameplay engineer. This session will cover what exactly a gameplay engineer is and will include four real-world case studies describing a type of feature or problem I have solved while working on a AAA game.

Alex Epstein

How to Take and Give Notes

In so many disciplines -- design, art, animation, audio and narrative -- giving and taking criticism are both big parts of the job. And both are fraught. It is easy to offend someone, especially a boss, by not taking their terrible note. It is even easier to offend people by giving them a perfectly brilliant criticism they don’t want to hear. How do you give notes to higher-ups? To your co-workers? How do you sugar-coat your ideas without making them mushy? How do you respond to a direction you think will make things worse? As someone who’s given notes well and also badly, who has sometimes persuaded people and sometimes pissed them off, I will propose an approach to giving and taking notes that seems to work for me, and may work for you, too.

Ted Prawat

Inside Titanic's Boiler Room to Teach Middle School Students STEM Big Ideas

The Titanic project is a serious game to inspire an interest in STEAM career pathways for middle school students through an interactive story; this will provide players with an opportunity to experience Titanic through the lens of the big ideas related to the science and engineering behind this once advanced technological marvel. The boiler room is an excellent place for middle school students to connect some of the most important big ideas in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to important content questions. The goal is to test this in classrooms with students and develop a curriculum using cutting-edge technology--3D virtual reality—that teaches “big ideas” as described in the NGSS Standards.

See all the Scheduled Speakers

Prices increase March 2nd

Get Your Early Bird Tickets

Regular ticket sales begin March 2nd. Grab your Early Bird discounted tickets before the price increase and save up to 25%. Pre-order a t-shirt and pick it up when you arrive!

Deadline is March 15

Expo & Indie Alley Discounts

If you missed reserving an expo booth or an indie Alley space before the 25% discount ended, we've still got a deal for you! Book before March 15th and receive 10% off ! More than half of the space has already been claimed. Contact us today to get the best location.

Deadline is March 25

ECGC T-Shirt Contest

Submit your design to the annual T-shirt competition. The winning design will be featured on the official 2022 East Coast Game Conference t-shirt. Winner will receive two complimentary T-shirts, and two VIP passes for full access to the conference and all VIP events!

Deadline April 14th

Digital Game Art Contest

With both student and professional entry levels and three categories: 2D, 3D, and photogrammetry, every artist has the opportunity to showcase their best work in the ECGC Digital Game Art Contest. This is a juried completion, with industry judges. Winners will receive an ECGC 2023 VIP pass ($499 value). Voting by conference attendees will result in the "People's Choice" winner(s). The submission deadline is noon, Wednesday, April 14, 2022.

Free IndieGame Business Tickets!

Join IndieGameBusiness for two days of world class lectures, roundtables, and AMAs from experts in games across business, marketing, licensing and production. While you’re at it you can also sign up for business meeting system powered by our friends at MeetToMatch.

Why?

All our sessions are always free to watch (forever) but having a pass gets you access to all the slide decks from the talks as well as discounts and promotions from our sponsors
Our conferences have the highest rate of interested publishers and investors attending.
All our participants choose to be part of our platform themselves, resulting in one of the highest participant satisfaction rates with regard to deal-making in the industry
Your data is safe: complying with EU GDPR and Californian privacy regulations, and the strictest European data safety standards.
You don’t have to know any publishers, investors, or developers in advance. Our meeting system makes it easy for you to research and understand who is a good fit for your game or service and quickly reach out to them directly.

Our meeting pass tickets start at just $50, regardless of the size or type of your company. We hope you’ll join us March 9th and 10th for another fantastic event from IndieGameBusiness and MeetToMatch."

Claim Your Free Ticket

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