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Description:
We manage projects, but what about creative teams?

After a lecture on how creative ideas occur, various exercises will show what blocks or boosts creativity. Some taboos should fall ;)
Several methods (used in various industries) will be presented, as well as their adaptations to the game industry.

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Description:
The next console generation is approaching fast - will you be ready?

In order to be ready, you will need to become one with the issues surrounding large teams and with the increasing the importance of pipelines and process in modern game development.

By studying issues encountered in running large current generation projects and by anticipating the asset requirements for the next generation, we can come up with basic pipeline and process guidelines to address production challenges in the future. Best practices (proven and anticipated) will be presented and discussed in this session.

This lecture was on the behalf and in the name of Argonaut Games plc.

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Description:
Drawing on their experience of leading creative teams and managing multimedia productions, Nicolas Gaume and Pascal Jarry offer some food for thought and practical tools to answer questions about managing creativity in video games. The following issues will be raised:
- How can the risks of a development be reduced, particularly those arising from the software-based and collective nature of video game creation?
- As even professionals have difficulty defining what a video game is, what basic principles can be used to measure your production risk and ensure a successful production?
-Bearing in mind that each person arguably only has one or two good ideas in his or her lifetime, why are long-established teams that have carried out many projects together preferred when it comes to innovating and producing in the video games field?
- The success of an IP is measured by the quality of a follow-up, but what is a follow-up? What must be added or changed compared with earlier opuses?
To all these questions, answers must be sought through a new approach to pre-production, and intelligent management of creative teams and appropriate "tools".
This workshop will offer practical tools, including a fully operational creativity method.

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