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The award winning team at bluegfx are an established group of sales, training, marketing and technical personnel that have worked together for many years. They work with manufacturers worldwide of both software and hardware, constantly evaluating and researching the ideal tools in the market that will give our customers competitive advantage, whatever their need in 3D and video is.

Audiomotion is Europe’s leading motion capture service provider. They are a multi-award winning studio, specialising in the provision of motion capture services to the Game Development, Film and Television industries. 

Speechly Bircham is a 200 lawyer City firm providing corporate, commercial and private client services. Headed by games specialist Robert Bond, their dedicated computer games team has acted for computer games publishers & developers since 1979, as well as MMOs and virtual worlds in recent years. Services include publishing and licensing, content, brand management, intellectual property and trade marks, outsourcing and e-commerce, merchandising, immigration, employment, corporate finance and deals.

The North East Business and Innovation Centre (NE-BIC) in Sunderland delivers the Enterprise element of the Sunderland Software City project.  With programmes such as Software Ventures and Stimulating Software Innovation, the NE-BIC has the experience, expertise and knowledge to help businesses and individuals develop their software related business ideas into reality.

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Brainmonster Studios GmbH, an international games developer, have developed an ambitious game: 2weistein – The Curse of the Red Dragon. The award-winning game trains maths skills, improves attention time, concentration levels and motor-visual coordination. 2weisten is a game that combines the latest scientific research in learning with an exciting story, beautiful characters and 3D graphics to help make maths fun. 

TechExcel's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions enable enterprises to focus on their strategic goals of product design, project planning, development and testing by providing a collaborative and "knowledge-centric" environment.
TechExcel DevSuite helps enterprises dramatically transform their development processes and the concept has generated more than 1,500 customers in over 40 countries.

Emergent Game Technologies has one goal: innovation in game development. Through our state-of-the-art software platforms, Gamebryo LightSpeed and Gamebryo, we help both game developers and designers fulfill their maximum creative potential by giving them the power to endlessly – and efficiently – iterate development. From prototype to final product, Emergent fuels creativity while reducing risk.

Gamebryo LightSpeed simplifies game technology creation and opens doors to exciting gameplay through rapid prototyping, rapid iteration and real-time updates. Our technology, is multi-genre, multi-platform, multi-core and enables developers to make their game their way. Through our worldwide support, and commitment to relationships that go beyond licensee and licensor our company provides an unmatched solution to developers.

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When making international payments and conducting business abroad, volatile currency markets can raise your company’s expenses, diminish your profits, and make accurate long-term planning virtually impossible. Secure and efficient payment solutions can minimize this risk and can help your company do business faster and more efficiently than your competitors. Your dedicated Custom House payments specialist will customise our products and services to seamlessly integrate with your existing systems to meet your unique international payment needs.

Making or receiving international payments with large banks in foreign currencies can take days, and sometimes weeks. Meanwhile, currencies are fluctuating rapidly, affecting your bottom line. Custom House’s foreign exchange specialists keep their eyes on the market for you; we will help you take advantage of favourable market shifts and provide you with up-to-the-minute market updates. Your partners, suppliers or customers will receive their payments when they need them - and you gain a competitive advantage.

We are committed to upholding absolute standards of integrity and ethical conduct. At Custom House we ensure that our policies, compliance and monitoring programs meet foreign exchange regulations in diverse markets worldwide. This allows us to facilitate your business and FX requirements securely and ensures that your funds move quickly.

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Northern Film & Media is the Regional Screen Agency for the North East of England. Our mission is to link the talent to the market and bring the market to the talent. We work to develop the whole moving image sector of the region – encompassing film, television, animation, commercials, new media and innovative technologies

Founded in 1990, Team17 developed and published games principally for the Commodore Amiga home computer... 19 years on Team17 are still independent and still developing games for all major platforms. 85 staff and based in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Team 17 aim to develop engaging, entertaining video game software. Prodcust include Worms, Alien Breed, Superfrog, Body Blows and many more.

 

 

 

BAFTA's Access All Areas programme aims to improve access to opportunity within the film, TV and video game industries. Whether or not you're a BAFTA member, you can sign up to the mailing list at http://www.bafta.org/newsletter/ for details of further live events, webcasts and competition give-aways.

 

The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.7 billion video games and more than 420 million hardware units globally, and has created industry icons like Mario™, Donkey Kong®, Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was established in 1990 and serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in Europe.

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