AustralianGamer interviews Tom Crago

AustralianGamer have an interview up with Tantalus CEO and Australian Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) president, Tom Crago. As you can imagine, Tom and the GDAA have been busily preparing the Game Connect: Asia Pacific 08 conference which kicks of this Wednesday (tomorrow)! Tom had some time to chat a little to AustralianGamer about the opening of the new Tantalus studio in Brisbane, the continuing industry goals and aims of the GDAA, and of course, the Game Connect conference...

Yug: What parts of the conference might entice skilled developers already working in the games industry to attend?

Tom: The program is very varied. On the technical side, you can't miss the very focussed presentations from international speakers from Microsoft and Sony. There are a number of design sessions and panels, on the art side we have internationals from Autodesk, while mobile developers absolutely must see Dan Scott from Nokia talking about the future of the touch interface. We try to make sure there's something for everyone.

I'm personally really happy with the Key Notes this year. Zareh Nalbandian from Animal Logic is a guy maybe better known in the film and television industries, but his company recently announced a move into video games. We have Jay Wilbur from Epic, and of course Yahtzee talking about game design.

Read the rest at AustralianGamer!