11 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London's Connects X track

Learn about the issues surrounding platforms and emerging technologies such as Nintendo Switch, virtual reality and augmented reality.

• 1 Exploring cross-platform play between virtual reality and mobile

  Our panel of experts delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  The panel includes:

  • Hipfire Games CTO Lari Unkari
  • Hipfire Games CEO Antti Sartanen
  • Hipfire Games Creative Director Kim Haataja
  • Prolifik CEO Allan Stewart

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 2 101 concepts for games innovation

  Amber Studios CEO Mihai Pohontu delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  The games industry has the highest rate of creative destruction in tech, as we permanently contend with new platforms, business models, design and art trends. This ever-shifting landscape forces large games entities to retreat into familiar tropes with certain commercial outcomes, but the future belongs to those who innovate, pushing the creative boundaries of the products and the outer limits of technology. This talk will review a series of concepts ripe to be exploited by fearless indies or corporate rebels everywhere, from flicksyncs to metaverse-morphing neural networks.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 3 Future games platforms – Exploiting the possibilities

  Our expert panel delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  Our panel includes:

  • Blue Donut Studios CEO Marcus Pullen
  • Vancouver Economic Commission, Executive Director Media + Entertainment, Nancy Basi
  • Psytec Games Founder Jon Hibbins
  • Thoughtfish CEO & Creative Director Christina Barleben
  • Play Ventures Founding Partner Harri Manninen
  • Barog Game Labs Director Simon Barratt

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 4 From mobile to consoles and back to mobile

  Rusto CEO Sako Salovaara delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  Looking at the challenges and opportunities of developing and publishing your game on consoles.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 5 Skybound Games: From comics to games… and a wheel of awesome!

  Skybound Games EMEA General Manager Mark Stanger delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  Mark Stanger, EMEA General Manager of Skybound games will talk about the unique approach of Skybound to transmedia and their approach to the wide entertainment sector: a unique proposition for the game industry where content creators are at the centre of the multi-faceted opportunities the Skybound universe can offer. Whilst majority of publishers start in the game industry and branch over other media (movie, comics etc) Skybound is an established, successful entertainment company bringing multi channel media expertise to the game industry.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 6 The business of immersive (AR/VR) games

  RiseAngle CEO Kaveh Vahdat delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 7 Voice games – An overview of an up-and-coming category

  Doppio Games Co-Founder & CEO Jeferson Valadares delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 8 Raw Fury: Cross-platform publishing – Why and how

  Raw Fury Games High Priestess Andreea Chifu delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 9 The ethical hacker’s guide to winning with Gen Z

  Fanbytes CEO Timothy Armoo delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 10 How developers can bring augmented reality games to the masses in 2019

  Resolution Games Founder Tommy Palm delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  With the emergence of ARKit, ARCore, and Magic Leap, AR games are gaining mainstream attraction, offering the next big frontier for gamers and developers. However, true, engaging AR games remain limited to non existent.

  Why?

  Hear from one of the initial VR/AR gaming innovators on what’s holding developers back from building successful AR titles, how to take advantage of today’s tech to enable stellar AR games experiences, and what has been learned from previous gaming platforms including VR that can be implemented with AR (and what can be forgotten about). Learn about the fails and huge realisations from his first year of AR games development that included the launch of a major AR title. Finally, explore possible standards for AR games and expectations for the coming and penultimate standalone AR market.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.

  
  

• 11 Porting to console – Why alternative platforms options matter

  Chorus Worldwide Founder & CEO Shintaro Kanaoya delivers a Connects X session at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 on January 21st to 22nd.

  If you want to hear more world-class speakers sharing their insight and expertise in person, our next event is Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019, which takes place on May 13th to 14th 2019.