{"id":1785,"date":"2012-06-29T17:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2012-06-29T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T16:12:57","slug":"game-horizon-2012-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/game-horizon-2012-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Horizon 2012 \/ Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1788\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/photo.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This week, I had the privilege to attend and speak at the truly fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamehorizonconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game Horizon<\/a> conference in Newcastle (which is rather pretty as you will see in the picture). There was a plethora of inspiring and insightful talent that taught me a lot, including <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/torstenreil\" target=\"_blank\">Torsten Reil<\/a> (CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naturalmotion\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Motion<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Livingstone\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Livingstone<\/a> (Life President Eidos and Founder of Games Workshop), David Helgason (CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unity_(game_engine)\" target=\"_blank\">Unity<\/a>), Mark Rein (Co-Founder <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epic_games\" target=\"_blank\">Epic Games<\/a>), Oscar Clark (Evangelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/papayamobile\" target=\"_blank\">Papaya Mobile<\/a>), <a href=\"twitter.com\/michaelpachter\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pachter<\/a> (Analyst Wedbush), Gareth Edmonson (CEO <a href=\"www.thumbstar.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Thumbstar<\/a>) and too many more to mention, all chaired by the formidable\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Cecil\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Cecil<\/a>\u00a0(he of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broken_Sword\" target=\"_blank\">Broken Sword<\/a>\u00a0fame).<\/p>\n<p>I gave a talk looking out on what we are trying to achieve for BlackBerry 10 on the gaming front, and here are the slides to it (some of which may only make sense if you actually attended&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"__ss_13495259\" style=\"width: 595px;\"><strong style=\"display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;\"><a title=\"BlackBerry @ Game Horizon 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hirsch30\/blackberry-game-horizon-2012\" target=\"_blank\">BlackBerry @ Game Horizon 2012<\/a><\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/13495259\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"595\" height=\"497\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 0 12px;\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hirsch30\" target=\"_blank\">Volker Hirsch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I had the privilege to attend and speak at the truly fabulous Game Horizon conference in Newcastle (which is rather pretty as you will see in the picture). There was a plethora of inspiring and insightful talent that taught me a lot, including Torsten Reil (CEO, Natural Motion), Ian Livingstone (Life President Eidos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1206,1195,1197,1202,1198],"tags":[1212,79,135,1211,404,945],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry-2","category-events","category-games-2","category-slides-2","category-social-2","tag-bbm","tag-blackberry","tag-conference","tag-game-horizon","tag-mobile-games","tag-scoreloop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-sN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}