Game Connect: Asia Pacific

GDAA 2009 Annual Awards Dinner, Crown Towers

- Hosted by ABC TV’s Good Game
Stephanie “Hex” Bendixsen and Steven “Bajo” O’Donnell

What I Hate About Video Games: A Critic’s Perspective

Chaired by David Hewitt

Chaired by Tony Reed

featuring:
- Bob Loya, Activision
- Derek Proud, THQ
- Graham Edelsten, N3V

How Heroes Over Europe, the sequel to Heroes of the Pacific, blew its budget, slipped 18 months and sank a company

- Justin Halliday

Weapons of Mass Construction:
Art Procedural Content Generation

- Mark Flanagan, The Academy of Interactive Entertainment

Game Connect 09: Pants off! My Journey to Indiehood

- Farbs

CEO Panel:
The State of Australian Game Industry

Chaired by Tom Crago, GDAA featuring

- Shainiel Deo, Halfbrick Studios
- Kevin Chan, Blue Tongue
- Rob Murray, Firemint

No Point Re-inventing the Wheel. How to Make the Most of Middleware

Chaired by Mark Flanagan, AIE
featuring :

- Jay Wilbur, Epic Games
- Brian Waddle, Image Metrics
- Tim Mowrer, Havok

Keynote speaker, David Jaffe: Eat Sleep Play

Conference opening by Game Developers' Association of Australia President, Tom Crago, followed by international keynote speaker, Tim Stellmach.

Tim Stellmach - Vicarious Visions