Synopsis

IGDA Finland, supported by SIGCHI Finland, Remedy Entertainment and Sulake, is organizing a half-day seminar on game usability and interaction design. The seminar is part of IGDA Presentations series and provides a unique opportunity for game developers and people interested on game usability and interaction design to meet and discuss.

Keynote speech

Ryan Schneider is the Communications Manager at Insomniac (California, USA), an independent game development company behind the award-winning games Ratchet & Clank, Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. Resistance: Fall of Man which was one of the PS3 launch titles. Ryan's talk will be about usability processes of their current game R2 as well as usability lessons learned from their previous games.

Program

• Time: 11 November, 16-19 - the chat will continue at IGDA's November Gathering
• Place: Valkoinen sali, Aleksanterinkatu 16-18, Helsinki - follow the IGDA signs
• Program:
• Invited speeches from Finnish game companies on interaction design (confirmed: IronStarHelsinki, Sulake, Heavy Metal Helsinki / Pelit magazine). See more info about the speeches at IGDA front page
• Open mic session: participants from the audience can give short (max 15 min) presentations about their game usability and interaction design challenges or solutions.
• Keynote speech by Ryan Schneider
• Follow-up: IGDA's November gathering at Cuba Cafe. This is IGDA's hugely popular social event, organized every month in Helsinki. Attendance in October gathering was 185.

Registration

NOTE:The official registration deadline is over, but there is still space for a few members. If you wish to participate, use the signup form below, and we will contact you.

Participation to the event is free of charge, but requires a SIGCHI Finland membership and a registration to the event in advance. SIGCHI Finland has been allocated min. 20 seats in the event, which are reserved for SIGCHI Finland members only. Due to this limit, the signup is not based on first-come-first-serve strategy, but also on the relevance and an aim to cover a variety of industry and academic affiliations. This is to ensure that all the seats are not allocated to just one company, for instance. Participants with open-mic presentations are prioritized.

Deadline for registration is on 4 November. Sign up here.

If there is an excess of signups, SIGCHI will attempt to negotiate for more seats, and make a fair selection among the signed-up people if all cannot be accommodated.