[game_edu] African Game Conference CFP

[Suzanne Freyjadis]

Congratulations for getting this started, Benedict, Eyram and Kate!


I know there's a lot going on in game development in lots of African
countries and I wish you much success.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Benedict Olumhense
<olumhenseben at gmail.com>wrote:


> Sorry for posting twice!

> 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

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> 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

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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Benedict Olumhense <

> olumhenseben at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> (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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