Sponsors
If you are interested in becoming a Sponsor of the GameHorizon Conference 2011 please contact the GameHorizon Team:
Carri Cunliffe on +44 (0) 7881 833 443 or carri.cunliffe@codeworks.net
CCP was founded in the summer of 1997 with the goal of becoming a leading massively multiplayer game company. With the launch of EVE Online in May 2003, CCP has established itself as one of the leading companies in the field, winning numerous awards and receiving critical acclaim worldwide.
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.
Co-founders, Neil Parmar & Matt Allen, bluegfx is highly recognised as a market leader in the supply and support of 3D hardware / software solutions, they continue to pride themselves on delivering technologically innovative and future proof solution. bluegfx focus on the games development,design visualisation, film/TV, broadcast and educational industries.
GlobalCollect is the world’s premier Payment Service Provider of local e-payment solutions for international Customer Not-Present (CNP) businesses such as internet, mail and telephone orders. Through a single-interface online payment platform, we offer access to an unrivalled portfolio of local and international payment methods in over 200 countries and for 170 currencies.
TechExcel specializes in application lifecycle management solutions. The open workflow lifecycle enables a unified solution for software product development. TechExcel DevSuite is suited to plan development projects, coordinate teams, track work items and their associated milestones, empower QA professionals, and deliver crucial games to production on time.
Liemur specialise in improving gaming projects. They deliver efficiencies and cost savings by focussing on the human interaction points within a development cycle.Sample areas include:
(1) Design Requirements managing ambiguities, misinterpretation and the effects of separate business & technical vocabularies to reduce change requests.
(2) Team Dynamics demonstrating how individual execution of work can affect the entire production chain positively or negatively.
(3) Process why Agile practises (in particular SCRUM) require regular tailoring to meet the objectives of each new project or changes in a project team
(4) Innovation how to incorporate new features at the right points to minimise disruption
Liemur also recognise more than 70 hurdles and bottlenecks that commonly occur on software projects and the ways to address them to reclaim technical debt.
Havok is the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries. Havok products and tools are fully multithreaded and cross-platform optimized. Havok’s combination of superior technology and world class customer support has inspired its use in over 350 titles.
From basic game programming to advanced OpenGL tweaks, from smartphones to consoles, with topics including matte painting and game audio. We have everything you need at Register Books. Our UK based warehouse stocks over 15,000 books, online learning courses and software, all with free UK delivery & same working day despatch.
Epic Games develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. Epic’s “Gears of War” series has sold over 12 million copies and won over 30 Game of the Year awards. Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 is the four-time winner and Hall of Fame inductee for Game Developer’s Best Engine Front Line Award.
Palringo has redefined instant messaging to deliver an innovative, mobile-oriented service with group communication, push-to-talk voice messaging and picture messaging all enhanced by integrated location features. Palringo applications are available for all major devices and also provide connectivity to a range of popular third party IM services. In addition to our own direct-to-consumer service, weve provided hosted partner solutions to tier 1 device manufacturers, mobile operators and Fortune 100 enterprise customers. Our telco-grade, scalable platform supports millions of users, handles billions of messages each month and provides access to many thousands of user- and partner-created groups
Double Eleven, located in Middlesbroughs new Digital City, are a highly technical and creative young games studio. Our experienced team each totalling an average ten years experience and fifteen published titles work hard to produce exceptional handheld and mobile games. We are currently working on high profile titles with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Peppermint P is the PR consultancy that is dedicated to the video, mobile and casual game sectors. Peppermint specialises in B2B and B2C campaigns, including strategic work for game developers and full launch campaigns for traditional and emergent formats including: iPhone & mobile, Flash and browser-based social and casual gaming, MMOs plus home and handheld console.
Now, over 10 million professionals in 185 countries are using Autodesk products to save time and money, gain competitive advantage, and change the way ideas are brought to life.
Atomhawk Design Ltd is a leading conceptual design and digital art production company based in the North East of the England.
We are a specialist service provider of bespoke digital art and design work in traditional mediums of 2D and 3D as well as video production and Adobe Flash
interactive productions.
The Hub is a business collaboration network design to help commercial creative individuals or organisations make the most of their collective minds. Through it, Gatesheads creative community can work together, learn together and share resources with each other.
With networking events and workshops thrown into the mix, the free to join network also provides a forum to express thoughts, ideas and solutions, and by doing so enables us to make Gateshead the creative hub of the North East. So lets talk.
Set in the heart of Gateshead’s Creative Quarter, at the new £39million Baltic Campus, Gateshead Colleges Digital Academy delivers courses developed in partnership with the region’s creative sector. Combining state of the art facilities with cutting edge subject knowledge, we aim to develop professionals who will shape the future of the Creative Digital sector.
The unique amBX technology delivers immersive effects for games and takes content beyond the screen into the gamers real world. The free SDK enables developers to add vibrant new dimensions to the experience. amBX licensed games hardware hits mid 2011 and amBX is already powering clubs, bars and other venues.
What is the Intel AppUp developer program?
The Intel AppUp developer program provides a single point of distribution for app stores that span different retailers (including Best Buy and Dixons), different operating systems (Microsoft Windows and the Linux variant MeeGo), and different devices (netbooks now, with support for devices such as tablets, smart TV, and in-vehicle infotainment to come).
DigitalCity is creating the most vibrant digital hub in the UK a successful and self-sustaining digital media, digital technology and creative supercluster based in the North East. Along the way, were developing a worldwide reputation for creativity, imagination and daring