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Director of Kojima Productions in Tokyo, Japan, Hideo Kojima has experienced a steady ride to the top of video game fame. His upcoming title, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is set to continue his legacy as an innovative, adventurous, and thought-(and laugh) provoking director. From his breakthrough stealth-action hit, Metal Gear (1987) to the worldwide critical hit, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004), Hideo Kojima's vision has helped redefine games throughout the past two decades. His original game concepts have expanded beyond stealth espionage action with the vampire-hunting Boktai series and sci-fi epic Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. Since establishing his own independent game development studio in May 2005, Hideo Kojima's studio has produced seven original titles including the award-winning Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Stock Trading Trainer Rod Fergusson is the Producer for “Gears of War” (see http://www.gearsofwar.com), the highly anticipated Xbox 360 exclusive title from Epic Games. Epic is best known as the makers of the mega-hit Unreal and Unreal Tournament computer game franchises and the Unreal game engine. The Unreal engine is the technology behind dozens of computer and console games including Splinter Cell, America’s Army, Lineage II, Deus Ex and more (see http://www.unrealtechnology.com). Harvey Smith has been making games professionally since 1993. Currently, he is studio creative director at Midway Studios-Austin. He worked at Ion Storm's Austin office from 1998 to 2004, in key creative roles on the Deus Ex games. (Deus Ex won the 2000 BAFTA and many other awards.) Prior to Ion Storm, he worked as lead designer of FireTeam, an innovative tactical squad game that was one of the earliest video games to feature voice-communications between players. Smith started his career at the legendary game company Origin Systems, working there for almost four years. His passions are communications, team building and game design, specifically related to improvisational gameplay, player self-expression and simulated game ecologies. Smith won the Game Design Challenge at GDC 2006 with his game "Peace Bomb," modeled after the Nobel Peace Prize. Tetsuya Mizuguchi has been a true innovator in his field since the very outset. He is
driven by a creative vision that challenges the very limits and boundaries of today’s
technology and art.
In April 1983 Masaya formed the band PSY'S (pronounced "Size") and the band pushed the frontiers of computer music for the time. After nine hit albums, PSY'S disbanded in August 1996.
That same year, Masaya took Japan by storm with the release of "Parappa The Rapper" for Playstation.
The game won the 1996 CECA Award, the Japan Software Award, and was also named Japan's “Game of the Year“ for 1997.
Masaya’s 1999 release, "Vib-ribbon" (PS1), was another gaming revolution, generating gameplay from the player’s own favorite music CDs. President Grasshopper Manufacture. His works include Moonlight Syndrome for the PSOne, The Silver Case, Michigan and most recently, his first game to be released in the United States, Killer 7. He is known for appearing in pictures wearing a lucha libre mask when promoting Killer 7. He is currently working on a project with Hideo Kojima along with Heroes He is curently working on, Heroes, Kurayami for PlayStation 3, Project 'S' for Wii His story writing of Super Fire ProWrestling 3 is considered to be the most infamous work from Suda himself because of the shocking ending.
Keita Iida has been Director of Content Management for the Asia-Pacific
region since 2001, heading up the teams that work with software developers
and publishers, ensuring that games and applications are well-aligned with
NVIDIA graphics and platform hardware. Previously, he was Director of
NVIDIA's marketing organization in Japan and Korea. Prior to NVIDIA,
Mr. Iida spent 4 years at VM Labs, Inc., where he was involved in the
John De Margheriti -
CEO BigWorld Pty Ltd
John Passfield is the Creative Director of Pandemic Studios Australia and has just finished work on the highly anticipated Destroy All Humans! 2. He is a veteran of the computer games industry with more than 20 years professional experience as a games designer, lead programmer, director and scriptwriter on numerous award-winning titles. John is also credited as a founding member of the Australian games development community having co-founded some of the first development houses including Interactive Binary Illusions in 1993, Gee Whiz! Entertainment in 1996, and Krome Studios in 1999.
Yoo, Hee-Dong is the head of game development for NHN Japan A more detailed Bio will be posterd shortly
Nicklas "Cece" Cederström Massive Entertainment, Sweden
Nicklas "Cece" Cederstrom started out in Film & Television in 1992 as an Editor and Director for commercials and live sports shows. In 1999 he took the step into the gaming industry as a Game Designer and has been working at Massive Entertainment (Ground Control Series) since 2003 were he was Lead Game Designer for the Research and Development on new titles. He is currently working as single player Game Designer on World in Conflict. Feargus Carroll,
Project Lead – Hand Held
Feargus first started in the Games Industry in 1991 as Production Editor for games review magazine called ‘Games-X’, which was the only weekly review magazine in the UK at the time. He then had brief spells in early 3D grahics, BASIC coding and industrial software implementation and testing before joining Psygnosis, one time parent of SCEE, as QA manager. While there he oversaw the testing phase of hit titles such as Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast 3, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, and F1. He later moved to the internal studio, as Head Producer for, among others, Colony Wars, Tenka and Wipeout 64. After spells as Production Manager at Infogrames (UEFA Striker & NGEN Racing) and as Studio Manager at Rage (Rocky) he moved to Electronic Arts. As a Senior Producer with EA Partners, he produced Freedom Fighters with Io (makers of Hitman), Anno 1503 & Anno 1604 with Sunflowers and Black & White 2 with Lionhead, as well working with Free Radical Design, Bizarre Creations and DICE. His last work at EA was in the Studio, as Senior Producer for Battlefield 2:Modern Combat. Nic Fillingham is a Technology Evangelist for Microsoft Asia Pacific based
in Singapore. For the past six years hehas been responsible for championing
Microsoft's digital entertainment products and services - particularly Xbox Nic's passion for technology first began developing in the early 80's soon
after his first foray into the world of electronic gaming on the Apple IIe.
Roughly twenty years later, Nic has been fortunate enough to help launch Nic's role sees him working closely with the gaming industry, evangelising Microsoft's gaming and entertainment platforms to developers, gamers, students, hobbyists and media.
Lee Sandberg - AB Colorod Media/Technical Art Director Lee Sandberg is a technical art director / technical director and has recently been working on a FPS on-line game using Epics Unreal 3 Engine and the next generation game platforms. He is consulting though his company studio in Sweden worldwide. For eleven years he has been creating middleware and art pipes for 3D games engines and simulations. Lee has studied Cognitive Science and AI and has a background from autonomous mobile agents and VR.
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