Wednesday 10 April
Vue, Leicester Square
A new conference for London Games Festival 2024.
Focusing on the renewed links between the games, film and TV screen sectors thanks to blockbuster breakthroughs and acclaimed TV shows.
The full agenda for the afternoon event includes:
A fireside chat with Emmy-nominated Ubisoft Film & TV Paris managing director Helene Juguet on establishing an entertainment label within a games publisher
Insights from Academy Award-nominated Jonathan Nolan (Westworld, Interstellar), showrunner Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley, The Office) and game director Todd Howard (Bethesda) and on how the Fallout game series has been adapted for Amazon Prime’s imminent new streaming TV series
Discussions on worldbuilding IP universes that work across different media with input from experts including Kristian Segerstrale (Super Evil Mega Corp) and Eugene Evans (Wizards of the Coast)
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Jennifer English (actor, ‘Shadowheart’) and Aliona Baranova (performance director) on why performing for video games is ‘the Olympics of acting’
A case study on working across animation and games by French studio Bobbypills which adapted Blood Dragon into an acclaimed animation series for Netflix & Ubisoft and is now working on Motion Twin’s indie mega-hit Dead Cells franchise - both animated spin-offs and games