First of all, a couple of words from Gate2Shop.

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Secondly, we would like to make an announcement of Wacom, which is going to support the best game contest held during our next conference.

Wacom invites you to participate in a game development contest. It is called ‘Dare with Bamboo”. Your challenge is to create a game that is fun to play with a Bamboo pen & touch tablet. The top 5 games will be invited to take part in the Dare Protoplay event. This is an international games event in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, held at the middle of August. At this event, a jury of game industry experts will select the winner. The grand prize is 1000 pounds in cash! In addition, you will also have a chance that your game is published to the Wacom tablet users worldwide.

The contest is aimed for talented games development students. The game has to be created in Flash. Wacom provides a free SDK and development tools. The SDK gives you access to specific functions of a pen tablet such as pressure sensitivity and touch gestures.

If you are interested in taking part in this contest, you need to register on the Dare with Bamboo contest website. You can register as individual or as team. Registration ends by the end of May. You have time to submit your game until 11th of July.

There are already teams from US, China, India and Brazil that are taking part in this contest. Surely Russia should not stay behind! So, now is your chance to show your talents to the world.

Please visit the contest website for more information: www.mini-development.wacom.eu.

Best regards,
Flash GAMM Team

Anyway, we do hope that these presentations and audio records will help you to restore the picture of the event. All the materials can be found on our site in the Program section.

Flash GAMM Moscow 2010 official report.
Alternativa Platform – a small set of photos, not only from FlashGamm but from KRI as well.
Anton Karlov – a detailed and interesting review by the Best game (indie) prize winner
Johnny-K – a profound report from our “gold dark horse”.
Photos by Johnny-K.
Konstantin Boronenkov – a review with detailed lectures description.
Valentin Simonov – the podcast of one of our speakers.
Vadim Starygin – an overview by another speaker and a winner in the Most Creative Game nomination.
Exey Panteleyev – a brief photo report from the devoted Flash GAMM photographer.
Ilya Pashkov – an indie view about the conference (with pictures).
insideapps.ru – a couple of words about scandalous presentation of Evgeny Marchenkov.
Oleg Vorontsov – a short survey with photos.
Eugeny Krevenets – an opinion of a person absent at the event + links to other reviews.
Eugeny Karatayev – a brief overview.

This was already the fourth conference which gathered flash game developers and publishers from different countries.
We would like to point out not only quantity (over 350 participants this time) but also quality rise of the event. The Conference took place in the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center, which had the only disadvantage – its situation (too far from Moscow city center). We have already discussed the point with the organizers of KRI, and next Flash GAMM Moscow is sure to be held in the Cosmos. It would me more convenient to all, and the participants in the first place.

There were two flows of sessions mostly divided into development and marketing, as well as indie and social games . As 4 speakers came for the conference from abroad, English-Russian and Russian-English simultaneous translation was organized. On the whole the program was very rich – it included 14 lectures, 4 blitz-sessions and 2 round tables, and some of them appeared rather hot. According to the comments of the participants everyone picked up something useful and interesting from the lectures. The presentations and and и audio records of the sessions will come out promptly in the Program section of our site.

We would like to express our special thanks to our sponsors – Alternativa Platform, I-Jet, Flexis, Gate2Shop, SPIL Games, MobMentality, Johnny-K, GBN, GarbuzGames, Arkadium, LuckySoft, Pixonic, ILogos, and all the companies representing Corporate Regostration.

Our congratulations to the prize winners of the games contest. Here is their list:

• Best game (company) – «Sky2Fly», Aivik
• Best game (studio) – «Aquarium», FRIENDS
• Best game (indie) – «Mining Truck», Anton Karlov
• The most creative game – «Mi Adventures», Vadim Starygin
• Future hit – «Zombies Rebellion», GarbuzGames
• Women choice – «Driving Kids», Albymedia
• Audience Choice Award – «UNIT-ONLINE», Vizor Interactive
• Best Application for My.Mail.Ru – Temptation, Evolution

See the games at the Contest page. And @mail.ru expressed the wish to become the prize sponsor become of the further conferences .

Generally the event turned out very positive and, as the organizers, we are very satisfied with it. Write your comments on the event and the lectures. We will collect them and publish on our site. Don’t forget to mention about the pluses and minuses for us to take them into account next time.

Thanks to all the speakers, participants and sponsors, to all those who helped with organization of the conference.
See you at Flash GAMM Kyiv 2010, which is fixed for the first December weekend.

Yours sincerely,
Flash GAMM organizers!

The organizers returned from Moscow only a day ago.
The official report is being made and is to appear on the site today or tomorrow.
Audio records of the sessions will be processed and released along with the presentations by the end of the week.

Everything will come out!

The registration of the participants opens at 9:00, the conference starts at 10:00.
The registration table will be in the main room of the second exhibition hall and will be working during the whole day.
Please, don’t forget to take any identification documents.

If you haven’t prepared your list of meetings with the companies participating in the conference, you can do it using “request a meeting” forms on the sponsors and program pages.

We also recommend you to look through the games sent for the contest to decide which of them are worth appreciation. The winner of the “Audience Choice Award” will be chosen by the result of your voting.

See the detailed program on the site.
Send your questions to flashgamm@absolutist.com

Seу you! ;о)

Best regards,
Flash GAMM Team

The best game will be chosen in each of 3 categories – company, studio and indie developers.
The winners in their categories will be awarded with Nintendo Wii Sports.

We have also determined the prizes for other nominations winners:

• The most creative game (camera PowerShot Canon A1100 IS)
• Future hit (digital photo frame Sony DPF-E72)
• Women choice (camera Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T20 silver with pastes)
• Audience choice (mp3 player Samsung YP-T10AB).

The prize sponsor of these nominations is @Mail.Ru.

In addition, don’t forget that @Mail.Ru has announced a special nomination in the frame of Flash GAMM contest – “Best application for My.Mail.Ru”, which winner will be awarded with XBOX 360 Elite and a certificate for free 25 000 000 advertisement rotations.