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Digital Games Industries:
Developments, Impact and Direction

Conference Programme - 24.6.03

Friday 19^th September 2003
09.00 - 09.30	Tea/Coffee
09.30 - 09.45	Welcome and Introduction Stan Metcalfe: Executive Director, CRIC
09.45 - 11.15	Session 1 - Gaming Technologies
09.45 - 11.15	Chris Bateman A History of Digital Gaming: Hardware, Software, and Wetware Stuart Slater Are Reusable Engines the Future of Games Development?
11.15 - 11.45	Break
11.45 - 13.45	Session 2 - National Systems
11.45 - 13.45	Helen Mullen & Kate Oakley The Good, The Bad and The Indifferent: An International Examination of Interventions in the Commercialisation Process in the Games Industry Anthony Cawley Dynamics of Innovation in the Interactive Games Industry William H. Kelly Video Games and the Games Industry on Japan: A Preliminary Overview
13.45 - 15.00	Lunch
15.00 - 17.00	Session 3 - Online Economies
15.00 - 17.00	Edward Castronova Theory of the Avatar Susan B. Kretchmer The Emergent Advergaming Industry: Developments, Impacts and Direction Aphra Kerr The Digital Games Industry: A Case Study of Ireland
20.00 -	Dinner and Social Event

Saturday 20^th September 2003
09.00 - 09.30	Tea/Coffee
09.30 - 11.30	Session 4 - Digital Gaming Industries
09.30 - 11.30	Alberto Alvisi & Marco Zamarian Learning from others or learning from self? Effects of Vertical Integration and focalization on performance in the game developing industry. The case of Sony PlayStation Hardy Dreier Buy or Die? Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony: The Clash for the Console Market Magnus Holmén The emergence and growth of digital gaming: the case of first person shooters
11.30 - 11.45	Break
11.45 - 13.30	Session 5 - Games and Intellectual Property
11.45 - 13.30	Ren Reynolds Between the Human and the Virtual: Players, Player-characters and Organ Donors Mia Consalvo Cheat Codes, Strategy Guides, and Walkthroughs: Official and Unofficial Economies of Cheating and Help in the Digital Games Industry Hector Postigo From Pong to Planet Quake: Post-Industrial Transitions from Leisure to Work
13.30 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.30	Session 6 - Gaming as Consumption
14.30 - 16.30	Ian Miles A Postal Strike: Playing by Mail in the Online World Susana Tosca Press Start Button for Entertainment to Begin: Computer Games Industry and Its Consumers Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter In the Future your Games will go with you? Mobile Entertainment in Europe
16.30 - 17.00	Plenary & Final Discussion

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Digital Games Industries: Developments, Impact and Direction

Digital Games Industries:
Developments, Impact and Direction