India Game Developer Summit 2010 – First, Independent Event on Game Programming, Business and Careers
Bangalore, February 04, 2010: Given the fragmentation of mobile handsets and limited computing resources (processor power, memory etc), it is a unique challenge to manage the lifecycle of a mobile game through its different key phases such as studio production, post-production (porting onto hundreds of phones), packaging and submission to all carriers worldwide with local language support. What starts like a blend of making an animation movie (with conceptualisation, creative direction, production etc) and writing a software (with over 50,000 lines of code) on a couple of reference handsets starts expanding horizontally to cover hundreds of phone, several languages in each technical platform such as Java, Brew, iPhone, Android, Windows etc.
Dayanidhi is coming this February to India’s first and independent annual summit for the game development ecosystem – India Game Developer Summit (http://www.gamedevelopersummit.com/) to share the experience he gained while meeting the challenges in building a team (from scratch to the current size of 150), setting up processes, building and maintaining automation tools to achieve best possible productivity giving benefit of optimised time-to-market to the organisation operating in the worldwide market. A mobile gaming production team resembles a software factory giving an opportunity to apply the classic production management principles while dealing with hundreds of SKUs on a daily basis.
The speaker is an engineering and management graduate with over 17 years experience in IT with expertise in delivery management. As Vice President – Customer Delivery at Digital Chocolate, Dayanidhi’s role includes delivery management from India, capacity building and management, Customer interaction (encompassing most of the mobile operators worldwide), strategic planning at the global level of the organization including new business initiatives, M&A etc.
Attend IGDS to get inspired, learn from the gurus who have gamed their way to success, and join a club that seeks competence to grab a share in the $43 billion global gaming development pie. View complete details of experts and topics covered at IGDS here: http://www.gamedevelopersummit.com/speakers.html.
About India Game Developer Summit
The highly individualistic nature of the Indian Software Developer, coupled with their tolerance for divergent personalities make them a natural fit into the Game Development culture. With the mission to build a robust community, advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers, IGDS 2010 (Lite Ed) is being organized with the mission to pump the blood of Indian Game Developers and re-invigorate the ecosystem at large. The summit will cover industry leading methodologies in game development, design, production, programming, visual arts and writing.
India GDS (IGDS) is the quintessential Indian game industry event focused on inspiring, connecting and educating the Indian game developer ecosystem. Featuring top-notch keynotes from luminaries, visionaries and gaming gurus on various subjects from mobile and indie games to MMOs and AAA games, IGDS will also provide a hub for business and networking opportunities in the Indian industry.
With support from the International Game Developer Association (IGDA), the gaming industry at large and academia, the summit’s intent is to build a robust community, advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers. IGDS will see participation from Adobe, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Crytek, CRI Middleware, Sony, among several others. For complete details visit: http://www.gamedevelopersummit.com.
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IAFT students and graduates sweep awards across short film, documentary and acting categories
The International Academy of Film and Television (IAFT) is proud to congratulate its students and graduates on winning a total of nine out of twenty-two awards at the recent Sinulog Short Film and Documentary Competition. These winning entries include ‘Faces of Sinulog’, ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Pagtuo (Faith)’ by Steve Eraña and Mickey Macachor, Mikio Makino Jr. and Janice Villarosa respectively. The competition was held in conjunction with the Sinulog@30 2010 Festival in Cebu City, and the award ceremony took place at the SM Cinema 1 on 30th January, 2010.
Bagging the most number of awards by a single submission was Steve Eraña and Mickey Macachor’s video documentary entitled ‘Faces of Sinulog’, a seven minutes long historic view of Sinulog from two different perspectives, narrated by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Fr. Carmel Diola from the Archdiocese of Cebu. The top spot for most awards is also shared with the short film ‘Kurtina nga Pula’.
In the Video Documentary category, all eight entries were nominated for the Best Video Documentary award, in which ‘Faces of Sinulog’ emerged tops. The documentary was further awarded best story, best in production design, best narration, best in sound engineering and musical scoring, while Eraña and Macachor were both presented with best director, amounting to six out of ten awards in the Documentary category.
“Our training in filmmaking taught us to avoid common pitfalls, as well as cut down the time needed for unnecessary editing through our shooting techniques, said Eraña.
Macachor, a recent graduate with a ‘Technical Achievement Award’ from IAFT under his belt added: “Formal training grounded us in the foundation for filmmaking, and that enabled us to explore and develop our own individual style.”
Commenting on their award for sound engineering, Macahor elaborated: “We have been taught on the critical importance of dialogue. With that constantly at the back of our minds, we made certain that our dialogue was crisp and intelligible, right from source through to output.”
Post-production took place on-campus, which not only provided the duo with the necessary state-of-art facilities, but also creative inputs and criticisms of mentors and peers that contributed to their success.
The annual competition saw a total of eleven entries in the Short Film category, out of which eight were nominated for the Best Short Film award. ‘Taxi Driver’ achieved the runner-up position for Best Film, and was also awarded Best Actor. Producer Mikio Makino Jr. is a recent graduate of IAFT, and was also a recipient of the ‘Technical Achievement Award’ upon graduation.
In the acting categories, Chuck Luat bested two other nominees for Best Actor in ‘Taxi Driver’, while Janice Villarosa’s stellar performance as the distraught mother of a boy with leukemia in ‘Pagtuo (Faith)’ earned her Best Actress award, beating three other nominees.
“I feel that one of the most important aspects of acting is learning how to approach a character or a script in various possible ways,” said Luat, who made his short film debut as a taxi driver who makes a turnaround after heading astray. “At IAFT, we are exposed to a multi-cultural environment with varying points of view and reactions to any given event. Coupled with good guidance from our mentors, my confidence has grown alongside my acting skills.”
“The theme of our film is something that’s very close to my heart, and I began to embody my character immediately after we developed her,” said Villarosa, who also directed the short film she played in. “Apart from being armed with the know-how, the discipline and focus that has been instilled in film school really paid off, as we juggled our time between shoots, post-production and our school workload,” the American-Filipino student added.
“We are grateful for the knowledge, support and nurturing that the mentors have showered us with,” Villarosa added. “We are honored for this recognition, and I now hope for the opportunity to showcase this short film to a wider audience beyond the shores of Cebu and the Philippines.”
The team behind ‘Pagtuo (Faith)’ has plans to continue editing the short film for participation in other film festivals.
“We are delighted with our students and graduates’ achievements at the competition” said Keith Sensing, Executive Director of IAFT. “This will indeed be a milestone for them, and we wish them the best as they continue on to compete at other international festivals.”
Last year’s competition saw two students Peter Ian Mancao and Angelo Agojo toppling the competition with their short film entitled ‘The Portrait’. Besides coming out tops for Best Short Film, it also drew the awards for best screenplay, cinematography, director, editing, actor and child performer, totaling seven out of the thirteen awards in the Short Film category. Mancao and Agojo have since graduated from IAFT, and have moved on to the production of local and international commercials.
Villarosa is currently undergoing her Diploma Program in Filmmaking at IAFT, while Eraña, Macachor and Makino recently graduated in the same. Luat is currently an undergraduate at the school’s diploma program for acting.
About The Sinulog Festival
The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines with a very rich history. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Niño, or the child Jesus, who used to be the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint, but God). It is essentially a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity.
The festival features some the country’s most colorful displays of pomp and pageantry: participants garbed in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs. The streets are usually lined with vendors and pedestrians all wanting to witness the street-dancing. Smaller versions of the festival are also held in various parts of the province, also to celebrate and honor the Santo Niño. There is also a Sinulog sa Kabataan, which is performed by the youths of Cebu a week before the Grand Parade. For more information, please visit www.sinulog.ph.
About The International Academy of Film and Television (IAFT)
Founded in 2003, the International Academy of Film and Television (IAFT) is a film school providing a new generation of aspiring filmmakers with a globally competitive education under the mentorship of leading industry professionals. The school offers each student hands-on experience using comprehensive equipment and facilities at a fraction of the cost of comparable institutions. IAFT offers short-term and long-term programs in Filmmaking, Sound Design and Acting that combine theory and application, and are designed for both new filmmakers as well as industry professionals looking to advance their skill set. The school also offers internships and opportunities to work on commercially-viable projects. Located in the heart of Asia on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines, IAFT’s tropical campus has facilities for filming and post-production as well as housing. IAFT’s mission is to nurture the creativity and individual talents of every student while cultivating today’s global filmmakers, and to build upon the entertainment traditions of Hollywood and other film capitals of the world.
The International Academy of Film and Television is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bigfoot Entertainment. For more information, please visit www.filmschool.net and www.bigfoot.com.
About Bigfoot Entertainment
Founded in 2004, Bigfoot Entertainment is an international entertainment company producing independent films for the global marketplace. The company finances and develops feature films, documentaries and reality TV shows, many of which have received industry accolades, festival awards and have been distributed throughout the world. Featuring both well-established and up-and-coming American and international talent, Bigfoot releases have shot on location worldwide including the United States, Hong Kong, China, Africa, Europe and Vietnam. Bigfoot Entertainment produces many of its projects at Bigfoot Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary that encompasses six sound stages and on-site state-of-the-art post-production facilities.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with studios in Cebu, Philippines, Bigfoot Entertainment creates content reflecting a Hollywood foundation with a global perspective. For more information, visit www.bigfoot.com.
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Zane Trace senior Kayla Ault found a option to make last yr, just one that numerous juniors during Ross County are beginning to think about. Ault could have taken the typical senior season lessons — graduation requirements coupled with some electives — gone to student at Ohio University-Chillicothe half a day time by publish secondary possibilities or the full time by the Seniors to Sophomores software.
“I actually desired to get some school credit,” she mentioned, adding it had been something to enhance her college application.
Nonetheless, her involvement at Zane Trace in extracurricular routines from bowling and Quiz Group to FBLA prompted her to hesitate till she heard the Seniors to Sophomores lessons also will be offered at the excessive institution campus.
“I like that a good deal greater. If it was just on the OU-C branch, I almost certainly wouldn’t have executed it. I desired to stay the following for my senior season,” Ault mentioned.
Seniors to Sophomores was an initiative announced in the 2008 Suggest with the Condition tackle and piloted at several “early adopter” public schools across the propose with the help of a two-year grant. OU-C and Chillicothe Metropolis Colleges teamed up to have the grant which included gain access to for all the county schools districts as well.
Seniors to Sophomores can be a dual enrollment system, which facilitates academically qualified higher college seniors to earn equally high institution and college credit rating at identical time at no charge towards the student. The nearby initiative expanded this season to deliver on-site student courses by Southern Propose Area University at Zane Trace and Chillicothe substantial universities.
Presently, 28 excessive college seniors are having modules for credit rating by Southern Express Neighborhood Student at Zane Trace and Chillicothe campuses. An additional 10 spot seniors are performing this system complete time at OU-C.
The program is one way some educational institutions in Ohio are adapting to requirements of scholars inside the 21st century. Not only is Seniors to Sophomores aiding in convenience to school for college students, but it is also a software catering to individuals learners who’re all set to move on to extra challenging coursework.
Unlike the initial year with the pilot, pupils at Zane Trace and Chillicothe large colleges obtained the alternative to stay in their ease zone with the substantial university with common buddies and assist networks as they struggled to adapt to the university strategy to educating in lieu of likely to OU-C whole time.
Present employees at both equally Chillicothe and Zane Trace took on the program classes. The main requirements to be trained to train neighborhood institution course was the instructors got to get a master’s degree, be regarded hugely trained and have further graduate do the job. Employees employ a colleague at Southern Propose with whom they function for elements.
Zane Trace Superintendent Carolyn Frey mentioned even though the school has supplied post-secondary op (the half-day option) and Seniors to Sophomores full-time at OU-C, she idea several scholars were not participating because they weren’t all set to depart their friends and school things to do.
“One of my concerns was having the ability to do that in home,” she said.
Chillicothe City Educational institutions Superintendent Roger Crago agreed, saying it also amplified accessibility for these pupils who have transportation concerns.
“This plan kind of helps them out to undertake this,” he explained.
Ryan Rooney, a senior at Zane Trace, was attracted towards the system simply because he knew he essential all of the help he could get to assist pay for student. Regardless of the monetary incentive, if it hadn’t been supplied to the school’s campus, he wouldn’t have participated.
“I think that would have place a large hit on my senior yr, and I planned to get pleasure from my senior calendar year of excessive school,” Rooney explained. “This is seriously the best, you have the most effective of together worlds.”
Other than supporting while using fiscal considerations of going to college, the program also acts as a time for learners to generate those people first-year-of-college transitions in a very extra insulated environment, hopefully setting them up to get a additional productive very first yr at institution.
“I seriously like the courses,” Ault said. “I imagine English may be the hardest. I’m not employed to wiring so a lot of papers. It is not unreasonable, but that’s diverse !..I’ve to research a whole lot a lot more and do a good deal more reading. In large school tuition, you are normally excellent with just the notes from class.”
Rooney decided.
“It’s just an adjustment. It’s always a good deal extra like school. It really is a lesser amount of structured, and also you ought to depend on your self a good deal more,” he claimed.
Jill Allen, who teaches introduction to writing, research/writing and literature at Zane Trace, explained the various method has been complicated for her as well due to the fact she’s used up nine years teaching a several way.
“It’s wonderful since they might be independent and do their very own thing and I do not need to hand-hold. However, it really is annoying at the same time simply because I’m employed to that,” Allen said.
The college-level lessons also equate to some heavier workload for your teachers, one thing Crago and Frey each praised their teachers for your way they’ve handled the improved workload and been enthusiastic concerning the tuition.
This system also has opened a door involving educators. Although districts have used up the last numerous ages great tuning interaction involving grade stage instructors to produce a much more cohesive, targeted approach for instruction, this routine has developed a venue to undertake the same from higher institution to student coaching. The concept, claimed OU-C’s Joyce Atwood, would be to produce a preschool by way of 16 program that performs collectively and has learned what the expectations are outside of the grade staying taught.
“There’s extra communication among the university and higher classes staff. Final calendar year, we found professors come in and discuss math and also the expectations,” Atwood explained.
“We’ve actually realized a whole lot about each other,” T.J. Eveland, OU-C’s manager of student recruitment, said.
Though the new factor of Seniors to Sophomores has amplified accessibility to learners, Crago was rapid to level out another selections continue to be really beautiful to selected college students who no longer are engaged when using the substantial classes natural environment.
“There’s lots of folks, especially with post-secondary ops, that look their son or daughter could not have built it by means of higher institution with out the versatility of post-secondary,” Crago mentioned.
On the other hand, the hope may be the capability to give college lessons at much more high classes campuses in Ross County will improve now that they’ve have a season to do the job by means of the logistics that has a smaller group, Atwood claimed.
“I think it has gone really very well,” Crago said. “We’re incredibly fortunate and lucky to have OU-C aid get almost everything organized,” he mentioned.
The Graduate Management Admission Test or GMAT as it is popularly called is a computer format test meant to test the mathematical, verbal and analytical writing skills of the person taking the test. A GMAT test is basically divided into the following sections: Analytical Writing Assessment, Quantitative Section and the Verbal Ability.
Top B-Schools (Business Schools) use the test scores as one of the selection criterions for admission into their graduate programs. The test scores are not the only factor considered for granting admission to student in these ace management institutions, bigger battles like the interview process are also key areas on which an applicant is judged. Having said that the GMAT scores are definitely the base around which other battles are conquered.
Every year many students take the GMAT test in order to get admission in to leading B-Schools. Some try and get a ‘decent score’, some aim for the Perfect 800 (the maximum possible score) and the others struggle to improve upon their previous attempts. Whatever the reason the GMAT takers over the years have seen a steady increase.
Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) the apex body which administers the GMAT exam process. As per the GMAC website “More than 4,650 programs offered by more than 1,900 institutions in 81 countries use the GMAT as part of the selection criteria for their programs. “ Going by those startling facts it is quite clear that the reach of GMAT test is universal and the tests become an important ‘must clear with flying colors’ task for a management school aspirant.
So if you are burning midnight oil and thinking of excelling the GMAT in 2010 we would like to wish you all the very best and advice you to not take the test lightly and make a sound GMAT prep before appearing for the test.
Winning Prep is a website based on GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) which puts to test examinees verbal, mathematical and analytical skills. This website offers a vast knowledge bank to students for GMAT Prep to excel in GMAT exam.
If I take the GRE for Graduate School application that is on February 6, 2010, will I still be able to apply for the Fall 2010 Graduate School?, or would I have to wait until Janurary 2011 to start Graduate School?
The 2010 Full Time MBA Program Rankings are in. We have the complete lists from BusinessWeek, US News and World Report and Forbes. While only one factor in the MBA decision making process, how a program ranks compared to other schools can be an important determinant in which MBA you choose to pursue. Employers from the top banking and corporate firms tend to prefer graduates from the top 10 programs and these students also tend to get the best MBA jobs and highest salaries.
US news and world reports 2010 US MBA Rankings
Harvard University
Stanford University
Northwestern University (Kellogg)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
University of Chicago (Booth)
University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Columbia University
Yale University
BusinessWeek 2010 US MBA Rankings
University of Chicago (Booth)
Harvard University
Northwestern University (Kellogg)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Michigan (Ross)
Stanford University
Columbia University
Duke University (Fuqua)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
University of California – Berkeley (Haas)
Forbes 2010 US MBA Rankings
Stanford
Dartmouth (Tuck)
Harvard
Chicago (Booth)
Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Columbia
Cornell (Johnson)
Northwestern (Kellogg)
Virginia (Darden)
Yale
Harvard nails the top spot overall with the #1 spot in the US News Rankings, #2 in BusinessWeek’s and third in Forbes. Stanford is a close overal second place with the #1 spot in the Forbes rankings and #2 in US News. BusinessWeek places it at #6, hence just missing out on the overall top spot but beating out Chicago (Booth) which is an overall #3. Chicago gets the #3 due to its #1 spot win in the BusinessWeek rankings and just beats out Northwestern.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of Business all had strong showings with Northwestern inching out the others for the overall 4th spot and leaving Wharton and Columbia for the 4th and 5th respectivcely.
While attending a top ten MBA program is a major factor in many prospective student’s school plans, it is important ot note that different schools have programs that are geared toward different disciplines and depending on what career you choose to follow, a school’s locatoin and type of education can be just as important as its ranking. At best, these MBA ranking lists should be used as broad but general indicators of a school’s popularity and respect by top business and educational professionals.
With Degrees in Film, Real Estate Finance and Development as well as Psychology, Robert Levin writes expert articles covering a broad range of issues. Some of his websites include: www.toptenmba.com, www.MBArankings.me, and www.selfawareness101.com.
