Last Day of Regular Registration
The LOGIN Conference is still one of the best deals of the year, and by registering online now, you can save money and look a lot smarter when filling out the expense report. But the low price of just $495 for Developer Passes and $695 for Executive Passes only lasts until midnight tonight, so register today!
One pass covers just about everything at the LOGIN Conference. No separate expo passes. No rushing off to find available space at a restaurant for lunch. No tutorial passes. Just one pass that gives you the access of a first-class citizen among other dignitaries at one of the game industry's premiere conferences. If you're ready to register for LOGIN, get started here:
Discounted online registation only lasts until midnight, May 2, so don't delay.
Facebook Game Developer Boot Camp at LOGIN 2011
Are you a traditional game developer looking to make the transition to social games? Are you already making social games and want to sharpen your game? The Facebook Game Developer Boot Camp at LOGIN is for you!
An estimated total of more than 200 million of the 600 million Facebook users play games on that platform every month. Facebook is a huge games platform with great opportunity for new developers, particularly small agile teams.
In this exclusive one-day track at LOGIN, you'll learn:
- What kind of people play games on Facebook
- The basics of creating and registering an application with Facebook
- How to integrate social features into your game
- How to create an asynchronous client-server multiplayer architecture that is robust and scalable
- How to make your game go viral
- How to get users to actually give you money
- How to fine-tune your game based on metrics
- Which features work and which don't
Check out the agenda for the Facebook Game Developer Boot Camp at the LOGIN Conference site.
Capping Online Game Growth and Popularity
With AT&T's announcement that its 16 million broadband customers would be subject to a usage cap starting Monday, May 2, the company joins Comcast, which is the nation's largest broadband service provider, in the stated objective to limit the users who hit the Internet buffet for third and fourth helpings every month. AT&T will limit users to 150 GBs per month for broadband service and 250 GBs per month if they're U-verse (premium plan) plan subscribers. The kicker is that if a user crosses the limit, they will be charged $10 per month, a recurring fee for each additional 50 GBs burned through.
So, now a majority of U.S. broadband consumers will fall under the shadow of having to wonder "Is this download, or is this surfing going to put me over my limit?" What was once a "them" concern is slowly and steadily becoming an "us" concern. By "us," I mean not just consumers — a lengthier line of thought — but for the purposes of this article, let's consider the impact spreading bandwidth consumption caps could have on game developers and gaming consumers.
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New Speakers Announced
The LOGIN team has been busy reviewing speaker submissions. We are extremely pleased to announce more speakers. We will be announcing more speakers and sessions, so stay tuned.
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Immad Akhund
Immad Akhund is a serial entrepreneur and software engineer who earned a degree in computer science from Cambridge University in the UK. Immad has co-founded three successful startups. He was previously the co-founder and CTO of Clickpass.com, forming major partnerships to power the sign-on process through OpenID, which was acquired by Yola.com. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Heyzap, the largest social gaming distribution network on the Web and the first social gaming discovery and check-in platform on mobile. |
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Matthew Wilson
Matt brings immense creativity, business knowledge, and a pyrotechnic attitude to Detonator Games. He is a game-industry veteran with more than 15 years in the online gaming space. In his 10 years at Microsoft, he was part of the original DirectX team and was a key lead on Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone. He managed and delivered all of Microsoft's shipped MMO titles and delivered titles for the original Xbox launch. He left Microsoft to start up Fire Ant Games, a studio dedicated to building AAA massively multiplayer games. That company was acquired by Sony. Over his five years at Sony, Matt was the executive director of development. |
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Henry Stern
Since joining Zynga in 2009, Henry has been leading the design and product teams on Mafia Wars. Henry has a 13-year track record in the game industry, including design credit for Games Magazine Game of the Year 2007: Vegas Showdown as well as Magic: the Gathering and Pokémon. Henry is that rare breed of designer that loves the numbers and has fallen in love with Zynga's analytics capabilities. |
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Jim Ying
Jim Ying is GM, North America for 6waves, one of the largest game publishers on Facebook. In this position, he is responsible for developer outreach and signing partners to join 6waves' network of more than 75 million monthly active users. Prior to joining 6waves, he served as director of product at GameHouse, the Casual Games Division of RealNetworks. He has also spent time on the core gaming side of the industry, having worked on the Halo and Age of Empires franchises at Microsoft Xbox. |
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Nick Berry
Nick is the president of DataGenetics, a consultancy company specializing in data mining. A native of the UK, he was educated as a rocket scientist and aircraft designer. He has more than 15 years of experience in the game industry; prior to founding DataGenetics, he was the GM of analytics for GameHouse, and before that spent 14 years at Microsoft. Nick came to Microsoft through the sale of his UK company in 1994 and was recognized by the Sunday Times Magazine as "One of the top 50 entrepreneurs of the Decade." |
