Program

The ARTtech Summer 2008 seminar program and schedule.

Seminar schedule

The schedule for ASSEMBLY Summer 2008 ARTtech seminars is shown below

Thursday 31st of July

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker
31.7	16:00	Indie start-up for dummies	Jani Kahrama and Jetro Lauha
31.7	17:00	Making of Crayon Physics Deluxe	Petri Purho
31.7	18:00	Gaming: How AMD is changing how Gamers "Game"	Ian McNaughton
31.7	19:00	Demo Programming for Beginners	Martti Nurmikari
31.7	20:00	The demoscene explained, and more!	Nina Høegh-Larsen, Jaakko Kaitaniemi, Cesare Castiglia, Matt Swoboda, Jussi Laakkonen

Friday 1st of August

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker
1.8	11:00	Visibility optimization for games	Teppo Soininen
1.8	12:00	Playing with Robots both real and virtual Note: this session last two hours	Paul Foster
1.8	14:00	Improving the end user experience: Playtesting mobile games	Elina Ollila
1.8	15:00	Dynamic Mesh Deformation for Car Games	Johannes Rajala
1.8	16:00	Harnessing the power of XGSE	Gergely Szelei Kis
1.8	17:00	Sell your Friends vs. WOW epic mounts: the game industry at change	Jussi Laakkonen
1.8	18:00	Iron Sky - Nazis! On the Moon!	Timo Vuorensola
1.8	19:00	Invite only event / kutsuvierastapahtuma
1.8	20:00	Fighting Organized Online Crime	Mikko Hyppönen
1.8	20:00	Alternative Party presents: Avant-Garde Video Art meets Demoscene and Steampunk Note: this session takes place in the demoscene area, 3rd floor	Kari Yli-Annala, Pilvari Pirtola, Kristoffer Lawson, Mikko Tuomela

Saturday 2nd of August

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker
2.8	10:00	Housemarque's cross platform engine design	Jere Sanisalo
2.8	11:00	Programming on Cell tutorial, top to bottom Note: this session last three hours	Arnd Bergmann
2.8	14:00	Stone's War	Marko Mäkilaakso
2.8	15:00	Iron Sky - Workflow of the production	Timo Vuorensola
2.8	16:00	Meaning of Life – Game AI demystified	Mikko Mononen
2.8	17:00	XNA for aspiring game developers	Teemu Haila

All times are Finnish time (CET+1).

Note: All sessions will be video recorded and made available as video on demand on FTP/WWW servers at www.assemblytv.net. The delay from the presentation to the release of the video on demand file is around 12 hours.