[game_edu] African Game Conference CFP

[Benedict Olumhense]

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For full information regarding submission procedures, please visit;
http://www.agconf.com/sessions/call-for-papers/

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Submission Deadlines
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Phase 1: February 30th 2014
Phase 2: March 30th 2014
Phase 3 June 30th 2014


All submission proposals should be sent to the following mail address:
info at agconf.com


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Organizing Committee
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Benedict Olumhense, Founder IGDA Nigeria, CEO CYPHA Entertainment (Nigeria)
Eyram Akofa Tawia, Co - founder, Leti Arts (GHANA)
Kate Edwards, President IGDA, Kate Edwards Englobe
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Benedict Olumhense
Founder, IGDA Nigeria
CEO, CYPHA entertainment
benolumhense at agconf.com
http://www.agconf.com/
+2348027147294





On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Benedict Olumhense
<olumhenseben at gmail.com>wrote:


> (Please distribute widely!)

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> Call for Papers

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> The Inaugural edition of the African Game Conference 2014

> http://www.agconf.com/

> will be held in Lagos, Nigeria November 20, 21 2014

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> Overview

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> With the emerging gaming landscape on the African continent, Africa's game

> development indies often struggle to find the necessary support to develop

> and compete with favourably with its counterparts in the developed World.

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> Key issues affecting these indies range from manpower development, funds

> access for game development, commercial channels to market these developed

> titles to monetization and micro-transaction models etc.

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> Our 2 day conference will focus on possible ways to help alleviate these

> challenges by bringing together industry professionals in Game Design and

> Development,  Visual, Audio, CGI and Animation development, Games and App

> Marketing, Government Regulatory Authorities, OEM's, Telco's, as well as

> Vendor Services and Organisation.  The aim is to share, discuss, combine

> and collaborate on novel products and solutions for the continental and

> global market.

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> The conference aims to advance infusing African stories and folktales into

> game development through art and businesses.

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> Themes of interest include, but not limited to, the following areas:

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>    - Game development processes, platforms and tools for product

>    development.

>    - Monetization, content marketing and acquisition, retention and

>    development models.

>    - Visual development tools and processes.

>    - Audio and narration development tools and processes.

>    - IP protection laws and governing policies against piracy and

>    consumer protection.

>    - Game localisation.

>    - Scrum, Agile and Rapid App development and testing models and

>    workshops.

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> Submissions

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> We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the

> exchange of ideas between organisations and  researchers working in the

> above-mentioned areas. We invite submissions of more established ideas and

> methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4

> pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages).

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