GCAP 2022: Ambition: Grid

WELCOME TO GCAP

Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) is Australia’s premier professional development and networking event for the game development industry, focused on up-skilling and connecting the Australian sector via education, knowledge sharing and the provision of extended personal and business networks. GCAP caters to a range of disciplines and has grown and attracted an engaged audience and esteemed speakers from around the world.

The Focus For GCAP 2022 Is Ambition.

Australian game developers have found their voice in the world and that voice is ambitious. GCAP 2022 will challenge attendees to chase their ambitions and create world class products, experiences, studios, and businesses for an ever-expanding global games audience. GCAP 2022 will provide avenues for personal and professional ambitions to be realised and success to be achieved.

GCAP 2022 will run from Monday the 3rd of October, to Wednesday the 5th of October 2022.

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Morning Tea 10:30am - 11:00am

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Tips on Joining an In-progress T... 1:00pm - 1:30pm

Winning $250,000 in 30 Days: A P... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

How to pitch your game to Screen... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

Welcome to Country, Ministerial... 9:00am - 9:30am

Opening Keynote: Lessons in Ambition 9:30am - 10:30am

Keynote: Curiosity as a Career 4:40pm - 5:40pm

Hire broad, Hire well - Talent Acquisition in the Vid... 11:00am - 11:50am

More Than Our Masks: A Fireside Chat Panel 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Imagining the Future 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Getting more (that you bargained for) 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Storytelling Beyond Words 11:00am - 11:50am

Nurturing neurodiversity: making game dev accessible... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Lessons from the Trenches: Live Ops Game Data Archite... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

FMOD to Unity Live: Audio Implementation 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Screen Australia: Back in the (funding) Game 11:00am - 11:50am

Show Don't Tell: The intricacies of metaphors in visu... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

What can Film & TV teach us about finance? 2:00pm - 2:50pm

BeginPlay: The Dos, Don'ts and Key Concepts in Switching to Unreal Engine 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Safety by Design as a tool to enhance user safety and... 11:00am - 11:50am

Traps in investment & publishing agreements 12:00pm - 12:50pm

From Good to Great: Elevating your Production 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Queer Games: A hopeful future 3:00pm - 4:30pm

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Keynote: Voltrons Will Save Us--Flexible Collaboration Structures in the I... 8:30am - 9:40am

Evening Keynote: A Fireside Chat with Sledgehammer Games: Why Me... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

What can game developers do to help save the planet? 10:00am - 10:50am

DGTO - application in practice 11:00am - 11:50am

How to Raise Investment Funding for Your Games Studio 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Days of Future Past: A Journey Through Time to See th... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Logos for Games 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Braving TikTok: Creating Community & Running Ads 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Unpacking: The Complexities of a Simple Game 10:00am - 10:50am

25,000 lines of VO in an Aussie indie game 11:00am - 11:50am

Games by Songs 12:00pm - 12:50pm

From triple j to AAA? The Journey of Big Sand 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Designer VS Producer 3:00pm - 3:50pm

A Bug's Life: QA practices in all stages of a project 4:00pm - 4:50pm

PROG ROCK ODYSSEY: Designing the Artful Escape 10:00am - 10:50am

Style that Sings 11:00am - 11:50am

UI Animation: The Art of making Buttons Move 12:00pm - 12:50pm

1001 ways to draw an object: An isometric pixel art t... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Throwing Shade: How to Yassify Your Game 3:00pm - 3:50pm

3D to 2D: Moving from One Artistic Style to Another A... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Data Driven Narrative and Narrative Analytics 10:00am - 10:50am

We deserve better subtitles! 11:00am - 11:50am

Algorithms and Emojis: Puzzle Design for Nekograms 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Using Automated Story Planners for Augmented Narrativ... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

ABC Design - Approaching Game Design through Daisy Ch... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

A Personal Philosophy of Excellent Engineering 10:00am - 10:50am

Let's Do Some Crimes. The wonders of abusing C# gener... 11:00am - 11:50am

Optimising your game AFTER it ships 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Implementing Team-Based Matchmaking without a Matchma... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Expert level debugging 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Workshop Design and Facilitation for Game Studios 10:00am - 10:50am

Building and Leading Inclusive Teams in a Hybrid and... 11:00am - 11:50am

Building A Better Industry – Australia’s First Union... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

It's Not About The Plugins: Building a game career in... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Why the Why Matters 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Don't quit your day job: How to survive making games... 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Organized Chaos - A Producers Panel 10:00am - 10:50am

State of the (technical) Art - A Tech Artists Panel 11:00am - 11:50am

From UE5 to 10: Easy techniques to make your scene lo... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Developing Sanity - Saving Audio Tools with Python in... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Creating Interactive Experiences for Physical Spaces 4:00pm - 4:50pm

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Good teams don't communicate 11:00am - 11:30am

Opening Keynote: Striving for Something Different 8:30am - 9:40am

Closing Keynote: See that mountain? You can climb it! 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Getting the most out of your IP - enjoy the full frui... 10:00am - 10:50am

INVESTMENT, MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS – WHAT DOES IT A... 11:00am - 11:50am

Using storytelling tools for your grant application 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Data is Art - How to Model for Visual Effects 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Strapped for Cash, Not Style - Building a Strong Art... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

So You Think You Can Ship 10:00am - 10:50am

Game Production for Indie Teams 11:00am - 11:50am

How Dog Training can make us better Producers 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Managing Audio Pipelines for Original and Live Servic... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

I'm a game developer, I don’t need to know about musi... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Talk the talk: How to say the right things about your... 10:00am - 10:50am

I Made You Some Content - The Community to Content Pi... 11:00am - 11:50am

Everything is Marketing: Why you're a better marketer... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

When Keeping It Real Goes Right: A Guide To Genuine E... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

How to make money from your GDD 3:00pm - 3:50pm

No Hero Is An Island: How Diverse Ensemble Casts Crea... 10:00am - 10:50am

Accessibility As A First Principle 11:00am - 11:50am

Understanding your players better through user resear... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

The other writing for games: 6 writing principles tow... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Cultivating Playful Culture 3:00pm - 3:50pm

On Demand Texture streaming - How we made all our Cod... 10:00am - 10:50am

Multiplayer Misadventures - Tales from making our fir... 11:00am - 11:50am

Optimising games for a complex world 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Let's talk about LiveOps 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Mouse-like Precision Without Aim Assist: Making Good... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Growing Your Team Without Sacrificing It: Intentional... 10:00am - 10:50am

Slacking Off: Running a remote international, asynchr... 11:00am - 11:50am

Nintendo Switch – An Introduction for Developers & Pu... 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Diversity Isn’t Enough: Crafting a Psychologically Sa... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

The Meta-Game of Leadership 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Collaborative Design: Finding a unique art style thro... 10:00am - 10:50am

Working Collaboratively in Unreal Engine 11:00am - 11:50am

Math with Nodes 12:00pm - 12:50pm

A newcomers guide to adding Interactivity for Artists... 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Transitioning an Animated Television Series to Unreal... 3:00pm - 3:50pm

Australian Game Developer Awards 6:30pm - 11:00pm