Developing Company Culture

Phil Attfield | NextGen Skills Academy
Amy Smith | Framestore

Skills shortages are reported at all levels of creative careers in games, animation and VFX studios. This session includes case studies and expert observations on how businesses can develop a skills learning culture and the intersection of skills with developing a diverse and inclusive workforce, while addressing skills issues.

Developing Video Games: The perfect mix of tech and art

Liz Beer | Ubisoft Reflections
Lucía Vázquez Vaquero | Ubisoft Leamington
Aleksandra Stasiak | Ubisoft Leamington

In this talk we will cover briefly all the aspects Technical Art can cover - with a deeper dive into UI, animation, rigging and art optimisation.

UX-pected me to talk about UI: Prioritising the players’ perspective throughout your game

Chloe Patricia Hodgson | Ubisoft Reflections

The role of a User Experience (UX) designer in games is different than in other industries. Despite the common label of ‘UI/UX’, the user-centered mindset should impact all phases of your project’s development to not only ensure usability, but power meaningful experiences for your players. This talk will cover an introduction to UX processes, how to begin taking UX beyond UI in games, and common barriers in fostering a culture of design which prioritises the players’ perspective.

Practical tools to implement in production to maintain team creativity and health

Pete Bottomley | White Paper Games

In this talk, Peter breaks down production techniques that White Paper Games have implemented over the past 10 years whilst shipping their original IP titles. We dig into team structure, communication, reflections, pipelines and processes that can be applied across a range of real-time industries with the aim of maintaining the balance between creativity and our teams mental and physical health.

Sifu: Road to 60fps

Lea Bruder | SloClap

How Sloclap approach high quality stylized art with high performance on consoles with a relatively small team.