Prince of Persia Creator Keynotes IN 2010 Conference by: Paul Hunter


It's no secret that Ontario is a growing hotbed for video game development, with investment in the province heating up in recent years. Building on Ontario's growing prominence in the global games industry, Interactive Ontario will soon be presenting their flagship 2010 IN Conference, a cross-platform, multi-stream conference where veterans of the interactive industry from around the world come to share their knowledge, and showcase their cutting edge technologies. This year's event will be taking place from September 12-14 at the Carlu in Toronto.

iLunch 9 Goes Back to Basics! iLunch is IO's flagship case study and panel discussion series that examines successful business practices and strategies in the Interactive Digital Media industry.  Now in its 9th season, iLunch is going back to basics.

iLunch 9 Sessions

9.01 - What I wish I knew years ago...
Thursday, October 21st

9.02 - Public Works
Friday, November 26th
 
9.03 - Just Do It
Friday, January 21st

9.04 - Details of the Deal
Friday, February 25th

9.05 - Building Partnerships
Friday, March 18th

IO Members - get your Season Pass and save! The iLunch 9 Season Pass lets you enjoy all five iLunch sessions for the price of four.

Strong Demand for CMF Experimental Stream Funding August 31, 2010 (Toronto) - The Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced that the future of content and content delivery in Canada is being bolstered by home grown innovation, as evidenced by the strong demand for funding through the CMF's Experimental Stream. Applications submitted for funding by the first deadline, July 5, 2010, vastly exceeded the $16.2 million available at this round.

Mobile Innovation Week MOBILEINNOVATIONWEEK: September 13-18, 2010: Toronto

MOBILEINNOVATIONWEEK brings together global leaders of the mobile industry to Toronto || Sept 13-18, 2010.   Register at www.mobileinnovationweek.com.  Exclusive offer: Get a 10% discount on tickets to Mobile Media World, Mobile ThinkTank Series and MobileBiz BootCamp by entering the code MIW.

Leaders of the Mobile Industry come to Toronto for one week of events, co-produced by The Mobile Institute, FITC, Interactive Ontario and the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre. Founding Sponsor the City of Toronto.

Virtualization Enables Non-Profit Earth Rangers to Green Its Data Center Article from Sys-Con

Virtualization Enables Non-Profit Earth Rangers to Green Its Data Center

We take our mission to "Bring Back the Wild" seriously and run our organization with conservation and "green" values in mind. Many might think that building a technologically advanced data center defies these values; however, we set out to prove that a data center could be both fully functional and energy efficient. Virtualization technology, we believed, would be the key to success, and we were right. In going green, we also saved a lot of green - money, that is.

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StoryLabs Launched to Create and Educate the Next Generation of Storytellers Summary: Support for the evolution of storytelling enabled by new technologies took a giant leap today with the founding of StoryLabs, an organization of leading international multi-platform and transmedia creators dedicated to the education and mentoring of storytellers. Powered by a unique worldwide mentor network, participants will benefit from the rich knowledge and experience of renowned professional experts including innovative digital producers, games creators, TV and Film writer/producers, social media and community experts and transmedia content creators.

OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund - Deadline: September 20, 2010 Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) is pleased to announce a new deadline for the OMDC Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Fund.

The OMDC IDM Fund is designed to provide Ontario interactive digital media content companies with access to the final piece of funding required to move their content projects into production. Successful applicants will receive a non-refundable contribution of up to $150,000 to a maximum of 50% of the project budget to create a market-ready interactive digital media content product.

Fighting Fantasy: Creature of Havoc Big Blue Bubble Inc. announced today that Fighting Fantasy: Creature of Havoc has been released to the iTunes Store! Are you ready for the most unusual Fighting Fantasy adventure yet?

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Game company makes strategic move to video Imagine a game of chess brought to life in 3-D.

Inside a castle courtyard, a scowling bishop readies to take out a growling dragon. The tile squares displaying his possible moves are dramatically lit up. This is the world of a newly-released interactive video game developed in St. Catharines called Dragon Chess.

"It's been an enormous amount of work to create this," said Lex Parker.

"And we're going to develop it so you can play it online with anyone in the world."

The game is the latest incarnation of Dragon Chess from Lex and Susan Parker of Dragonchess Interactive Inc.

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Innovation Survey Conducted by Telfer School of Management The Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, is conducting an
important project examining the innovation behaviour of small and medium
sized firms in important sectors of the Canadian economy.

That includes creative industries!

The study is being led by Dr Mark Freel, a professor specializing in Global
Strategy & Entrepreneurship.

MobileAppEx 2011 Launch Koelnmesse, Inc. today announced the show dates for the premier of MobileAppEx 2011 which will take place from June 28-29, 2011 at the Navy Pier in Chicago. www.mobileappex.com 

This exciting 2-day trade show and conference will be the first dedicated mobile application and business solutions event for the rapidly evolving Mobile App industry including Developers, Ad Networks, Agencies, Content Providers, System Integrators, Manufacturers Software Solutions, Suppliers and Networks.

NEW! Digital Media Branch The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is pleased to announce that five Digital Media categories will be introduced for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards. The new awards will honour both cross-platform projects, developed to enhance enjoyment of a television program or series, and original productions, the first broadcast of which is intended for a medium other than television.

Your Game on an Indie Arcade Cabinet! The first time you saw the Torontron, did you think "How can I get a game on there?" Well, Hand Eye needs 18 games to fill 3 new Torontron-style cabinets. This is your chance to have your game played by the public on an old-school machine.
 
What we're looking for:
 

• approachable arcade-suitable gameplay, "pick up and play"
• game can't be too complicated, any instructions must be simple
• quality and originality of graphics and sound
• per-cabinet diversity of games
• existing/older games are acceptable, but we prefer new
• short games are fine 

CMF Industry Consultation 2010 The Canada Media Fund (CMF) will begin a new round of consultation sessions with the industry this fall. Valerie Creighton, President and CEO, and Stephane Cardin, VP of Industry and Public Affairs, will meet with stakeholders across the country to gain input on key issues to be resolved prior to releasing the program guidelines for 2011-2012 in December.

Please register by selecting a location near you. Exact times and locations will be provided to registrants by email prior to each event.

New this year, stakeholders who are unable to attend a session in person can participate through an online discussion forum. More details will be provided in the coming weeks.
 
REGISTRATION: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cmf-fmc-consultation2010

Centennial Launches Media Engineering Design Integration Program From mobile communications to interactive systems, to intelligent environments, new media innovations are rapidly changing the way we live, learn, work and play. Media Engineering Design Integration (MEDI) is a unique post-graduate and hybrid program focused on design, production and management of innovative media products including application development and content creation for wireless devices, interactive museum and retail installations, digital signage systems and networks and more. For more information visit: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/thecentre/medi

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