For more information, please visit the Supanova website, or the IGDA Brisbane Forum!
Saturday
Queensland Games Stage
QG Area Events
continuous throughout the weekend
10.00
Character concept art competition opening
Sponsored by QANTM
Bring your talent and skills, explore your passions and enter the Queensland Games character and concept art competition – this takes place in the stage area!
Open to all ages
10.30
We made this: Local companies and games makers show off their work
11.00 – 11.15
QANTM - How can you get into games?
11.30
Shainiel Deo of our own Halfbrick lets you into some stories about making games for handhelds!
12.00
We made this: Local companies and games makers show off their work!
12.30
Leanne Taylor from Pandemic Studios tells you how to write for games!
Handheld Party!
Bring your handheld and thrash them all!
Animal Crossing and Mario Kart welcome.
1.00
Tommy Tallarico
A glimpse of video games live!
Visit the Queensland Games booths and chat with the folk who make ‘em!
1.30
2.00
Krome presents: the animators vs. the programmers – can they really get along?!!
Maybe they should try a classic tournament playoff?!
2.30 – 2.45
QANTM - How can you get into games?
Red vs. Blue
Fight them, play for them – or watch them be mashed horribly!
Actually we are not even sure they will have the courage ….
2.45 – 3.00
Red vs. Blue – will they have enough ammunition????
3.00
Jeff van Dyke of Creative Assembly lets you into some Soundscape secrets
3.30
The Games Trivia Quiz!
Thrill as you find out how much our local masters of games really know – Gasp as you watch them play off against each other – help them if you feel generous!
4.00
4.30
Think you can make your own game? Peter Jarrett of Gridwerx tells you some stories about what it involves
Play the Games wall!
Sony have given us some PlayStation pods … let’s use
them!
Play Destroy All Humans! and Mercenaries!
5.00
QANTM - How can you get into games?
5.10
Red vs. Blue – Help them or watch them lose!
5.30
Supanova Day 1 art competition awards
Judged by luminaries from Pandemic Studios and Creative Assembly
6.00
END OF DAY 1
Sunday
Queensland Games Stage
QG Area Events
continuous throughout the weekend
10.00
We made this: Local companies and games makers show off their work
Bring your talent and skills, explore your passions and enter the Queensland Games character and concept art competition – this takes place in the stage area!
Open to multiple ages
10.30
Andi Spark of Griffith University invites you to consider a career in film and animation for games
11.00
A day in the life of … a QA – Halfbrick’s Scott Cameron lets you know what it is really like!
11.30
QANTM - How can you get into games?
12.00
Mick Gordon of Lava injection and the IGDA gives you a day in the life of a game composer!
Handheld Party!
Bring your handheld and thrash them all!
Animal Crossing and Mario Kart welcome.
12.30
Tommy Tallarico
A glimpse of video games live!
1.00
1.30 – 1.45
Red vs. Blue – will they have enough ammunition today?
Visit the Queensland Games booths and chat with the folk who make ‘em!
1.45 – 2.00
Griffith University invites you to become an Animator!
Red vs. Blue
Fight them, play for them – or watch them be mashed horribly!
Will they have gained some ammunition today? Only you can help!
Play the Games wall!
Sony have given us some PlayStation pods … let’s use them!
2.00
Pandemic Studio’s own Milenko Tunjic talks about creating concept art for games.
2.30
All about Game Design:
Thrill as our own local masters of game design have it out on the stage!
Designers from Auran, Pandemic Studios, THQ and Halfbrick let you in on their secrets
Featuring Arash Mohebbi, Lauren Pears, Joseph Hewitt, Alex Richardson and John Passfield.
3.00
A day in the life of … game project management -
Dale Freya of Halfbrick opens your eyes!
3.20 – 3.30
QANTM - How can you get into games?
3.30
Pandemic Studio’s Lachlan Creagh, lead animator on Destroy All Humans! Tells you how it is done!
4.00
The Games Trivia Quiz!
Thrill as you find out how much our local masters of games really know – Gasp as you watch them play off against each other – help them if you feel generous!
4.30
5.00
QANTM - How can you get into games?
5.15
Red vs. Blue have one last fling!
5.30
Final art competition awards
Judged by luminaries from Pandemic Studios and Creative Assembly
6.00
END OF EXPO
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