Chris Hecker added to Leadership Forum Schedule
Posted by admin on October 8th, 2009
Newly Added Keynote:
Chris Hecker of definition six, inc. has just been added to round out a stellar lineup of game development geniuses. Chris is an Indie Game enthusiast and entrepreneur whose inside knowledge and advocacy have helped to further the creative boundaries of interactive game design. Chris would like to help games get the recognition they deserve as the preeminent art and entertainment form of the 21st century.
Chris focuses on solving hard problems at the intersection of gameplay, aesthetics, and technology. He is an outspoken advocate for pushing the current boundaries of design and interactivity, in the hope that games will eventually achieve their full potential as a medium. To this end he helps organize the Indie Game Jam and the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, and his recent work has centered on using proceduralism and artificial intelligence to enhance player creativity and agency. Chris has been on the advisory board for the Game Developers Conference for many years and is a regular speaker at the GDC, Siggraph, and other conferences. A frequent contributor to Game Developer magazine, Chris was the technical columnist for the magazine for two years and the Editor-at-Large for three, and is currently on the editorial board of the computer graphics research publication, The Journal of Graphics Tools. He has worked at both ends of the development spectrum, as a one-man indie game developer with his company definition six, inc. and on a hundred-person team at Maxis/Electronic Arts. His professional goal is to help games become the preeminent art and entertainment form of the 21st century. His current project is SpyParty, an indie game about subtle human behavior and deception.
We can confirm Samantha Ryan as Keynote Speaker. Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President of Development and Production for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE), oversees the development and production teams responsible for all of the company’s videogames, including those based on original properties, Studio franchises and outside licenses, from inception through release. Upcoming WBIE titles include Scribblenauts and Scooby-Doo First Frights. Recent games also include F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and Watchmen: The End Is Nigh.
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