Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley to Keynote GDC Austin 2009

Shogun · 7th August 2009, 08:39

SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2009 – The Game Developers Conference® Austin (GDC Austin) will host a keynote by John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), creators of popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) games EverQuest®, EverQuest II® and Free Realms™. In his keynote, entitled “From Dragons and Daggers to Kart Racing, Cooking and Concerts...It's a Whole New MMO World", John Smedley will discuss how the critically-acclaimed freely available tween and teen title Free Realms, originally announced during GDC Austin 2007, has worked to expand the base of players engaging together in online worlds. Presented by Think Services, GDC Austin returns with three days of main conference content focused on connected games, online games, virtual worlds, and social networking game play and four two-day summits including the Game Writers, Game Audio, iPhone Games and Independent Games Summits. The event takes place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas September 15-18, 2009. Early registration discounts for the event will end on August 13.

Using empirical research and hard-won insight, John Smedley's keynote will inform attendees about the challenges and lessons learned when creating a full-blown MMO for younger audiences. The keynote will speak to the challenges and boundless opportunity of connected games and will also describe how to re-educate development teams to move away from stagnant MMO designs towards mass market success.

Shogun · 7th August 2009, 08:40

Seems like a good choice. Lots of good stuff happening in the game industry now.

7th August 2009, 08:39	#1
Shogun [M] Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Calif. Bay Area, USA Posts: 1,748	Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley to Keynote GDC Austin 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2009 – The Game Developers Conference® Austin (GDC Austin) will host a keynote by John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), creators of popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) games EverQuest®, EverQuest II® and Free Realms™. In his keynote, entitled “From Dragons and Daggers to Kart Racing, Cooking and Concerts...It's a Whole New MMO World", John Smedley will discuss how the critically-acclaimed freely available tween and teen title Free Realms, originally announced during GDC Austin 2007, has worked to expand the base of players engaging together in online worlds. Presented by Think Services, GDC Austin returns with three days of main conference content focused on connected games, online games, virtual worlds, and social networking game play and four two-day summits including the Game Writers, Game Audio, iPhone Games and Independent Games Summits. The event takes place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas September 15-18, 2009. Early registration discounts for the event will end on August 13. Using empirical research and hard-won insight, John Smedley's keynote will inform attendees about the challenges and lessons learned when creating a full-blown MMO for younger audiences. The keynote will speak to the challenges and boundless opportunity of connected games and will also describe how to re-educate development teams to move away from stagnant MMO designs towards mass market success.

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7th August 2009, 08:40	#2
Shogun [M] Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Calif. Bay Area, USA Posts: 1,748	Seems like a good choice. Lots of good stuff happening in the game industry now.