Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 official report

On December 10-11 Kiev hosted Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011!, a conference of flash, social and mobile games developers and publishers.

This time the hospitable Rus hotel welcomed about 700 attendees from different countries, that became a new record for the event. Traditionally we would like to express our gratitude to the sponsors who have supported our event for all these years. If you haven’t contacted the companies so far, you may still do it through Make an appointment online form.

We would also like to thank all the speakers who found the time to share their experience. The conference offered 32 lectures, 7 blitz sessions, 2 master classes, a round-table discussion a game lynch and a brand new event – Speed Game Dating. The latter enjoyed wide approve of the audience and hopefully will become one of our traditional events.

Flash GAMM Game Contest deserves a separate word. This time it acquired particularly large scale in terms of nominations variety, awards quality and the number of presented games. On the total we considered 104 titles for 18 nominations.

Here is the long-expected winners list:

Best game (company)
SKAZKA
Game: Criminal Empire
“Best game (studio)”
SMOKOKO S.A.
Game: “Bubble fighting Tournament”

Person of the year
Maxim “Mokus” Gryniv,
Game: Contre Jour

All the games can be found no the contest page.

Links to photos and participants’ feedbacks, as well as videos and presentations will be placed on our web-site soon. Read the latest news in our blog and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Thank you for coming and see you in Moscow next year on May 17!

Yours faithfully,
Valeriya Mallayeva

Final information

Dear attendees,

We are happy to welcome you at Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 on December 10-11 in hotel “Rus”.

Registration

Registration is open from 9:00 A.M. and will be open throughout 2 conference days. Conference starts at 10:00.

If you haven’t yet paid for participation, you can do so at the conference.

Conference Program

You can see the full conference program schedule on our website.

Feel free to travel between session halls, you don’t have to stay in a single hall all the time.

Meetings

The conference isn’t only about presentations, but also about doing business and meeting with potential partners

To make meetings easy, we have setup pages with links to setup meetings with our sponsors, speakers and premium attendees.

Organizers contacts

Send your questions to flashgamm@absolutist.com – we will do our best to reply asap.

Kind regards,
Flash GAMM Team

Registration is close

As the badges are already in print today we announce the registration closed.

If you haven’t managed to pass the registration yet, you can do it at the conference.

Today we also stop accepting e-payments for participation.
Though you can pay the participation fee in cash at the registration boost.

600!

Yahoo! Today we’ve reached new milestone – 600 registrations! What are your forecasts? Can we do 700?

Game Lynch

We have received 13 applications for our Game Lynch. Unfortunately, the time can’t permit the expert’s to review more than 5 because.

Thus, the moderator has chosen 5 games – Coloropus, Molecat Twist, Fort Blaster: Pirate’s Story, Truck Loader 3 and Gibbets 3. As for other games – we wish them good luck at our game contest.

Our experts are Alex Nichiporchik (Spil Games), Seth de Koning (Jaludo), Merlin Gore (FlashGameLicense), Andrew N. Green (6waves) and Eugeny Yailenko as the previous winner in Best Indie Game nomination.

Making appointments

Dear participants,

We recommend you to arrange your meetings in advance in order to make good use of your time at the conference.

You can make an appointment with our sponsors, premium participants and speakers. Just fill in the corresponding online form on our site.

Please, mind that the registration for Speed Game Dating will be finshed tomorrow.
We can’t guarantee the admittance for those who won’t register in advance.

Deadline of discounted reservation!

We remind that 20% reservation discounts for the attendees at the Rus hotel are available only till December 1.

Please, don’t linger

Speed Game Dating

Speed Game Dating (SGD) is a new event format which we present at Flash GAMM.

The players usually decide whether they are going to play the game during first few minutes of the game session. The same is true about the publishers – they consider whether to promote the game within these first minutes too.

We decided to apply the principle of Speed Dating to the communication of game developers and publishers. Thus the developers who have games to show could get acquainted with maximum of publishers interested in that.

If you are interested in the Speed Game Dating event, please, be sure to fill in the form at our site – http://www.flashgamm.com/kyiv2011/en/program/#sgd

We can’t guarantee the admittance to those who fail to register until December 1, 2011!

The format of Speed Game Dating

• SGD will be held in Lazurny Hall on the first conference day, starting at 15-00. We are going to stream it into flash, mobile and social if we have a lot of games.
• The developers with their laptops, tablets and mobile devices will be sitting at one side of the table – the publishers at the other.
• You will have 3 minutes for the presentation, then a SGD moderator will give a signal to change the pairs – the publishers will move to the next developer clockwise.
• If the number of developers and publishers doesn’t coincide, we’ll optimize the streams to get everyone acquainted.
• After the official part you will not be limited in time to talk to each other during the conference.

Advantages of Speed Game Dating

• Sometimes developers hesitate to come up to a booth, don’t know what to say or who to talk to. SGD solves the problem.
• Unlike projects fair, you are not bound to your computer and don’t have to miss lectures. SGD enables you to show the game to the most interested people in the minimum time.
• We create general conditions for mutual advantage of publishers and developers.

Speed Game Dating participation conditions

• Regarding that it will be an experiment, the participation in the event is free of charge for both developers and publishers.
• You need to fill in the online form till December 1, 2011 and confirm your participation by email in a few days before the conference (all the registered participants will be sent a confirmation letter with detailed instructions).
• Developers have to have laptops, tablets or mobile devices to present their games, as well as their business cards to exchange contact information.
• The publishers have to bring their business cards and good mood.
• We can’t guarantee the admittance to the participants who won’t register in advance!

Please, feel free to ask any questions about the SGD. Our contact email: flashgamm@absolutist.com

Game contest deadline

Dear participants of Flash GAMM game contest,

We remind you that the admission term ends on November 25 and will not be prolonged!

Please, be quick to send your titles!

Schedule of the sessions

We present to you schedule of Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011.Download complete sessions schedule (pdf, 660 Kb)

Please, pay attention that apart of lectures and master classes the conference offers a variety of events including a game-lynch, speed game dating, a blitz-sessions section, round table discussion and business meetings.