| India Game Developer Summit 2010 – First, | | | | Attend IGDS to get inspired, learn from the gurus who |
| Independent Event on Game Programming, Business | | | | have gamed their way to success, and join a club that |
| and Careers | | | | seeks competence to grab a share in the $43 billion |
| Bangalore, February 01, 2010: As the computing | | | | global gaming development pie. View complete details |
| functionality and horsepower of GPUs has grown over | | | | of experts and stellar sessions here: |
| the last few years, the role of the GPU is rapidly | | | | About India Game Developer Summit |
| expanding to game tasks beyond rasterization-based | | | | The highly individualistic nature of the Indian Software |
| graphics. Ashu Rege is coming this February to India's | | | | Developer, coupled with their tolerance for divergent |
| first and independent annual summit for the game | | | | personalities make them a natural fit into the Game |
| development ecosystem - India Game Developer | | | | Development culture. IGDS 2010 (Lite Ed) will pump the |
| Summit ( to talk about the novel uses of GPU | | | | blood of Indian Game Developers and re-invigorate the |
| computing for solving a variety of problems in game | | | | ecosystem at large. The first of its kind in India, IGDS |
| computing including game physics, artificial intelligence, | | | | will provide a high quality summit experience where the |
| animation, post-processing effects and others. | | | | most intelligent minds and proactive gaming |
| Ashu's second talk at IGDS 2010 on the 27th of | | | | organizations converge to create a high-quality learning |
| February covers Stereoscopic 3D graphics | | | | experience, and inspire, connect and educate the Indian |
| technology, and the common pitfalls and solutions a | | | | game developer ecosystem. The summit will be held |
| developer needs to be aware of to ensure that their | | | | 27 February 2010 in Bangalore at the NIMHANS |
| content will create a compelling 3D experience. He will | | | | Convention Center. |
| talk abot achieving out of screen effects, displaying 3D | | | | The summit will cover industry leading methodologies in |
| video content and how to design a 3D friendly user | | | | game development, design, production, programming, |
| interface. | | | | visual arts and writing. Featuring top-notch keynotes |
| Ashu is Director of Content and Technology at NVIDIA | | | | from luminaries, visionaries and gaming gurus on |
| managing the Content Management, Evangelism, | | | | various subjects from mobile and indie games to |
| Developer Technology, PhysX and APEX groups. | | | | MMOs and AAA games, IGDS will also provide a hub |
| Previously he was a devtech engineer working with | | | | for business and networking opportunities in the Indian |
| developers around the world on different applications. | | | | industry. |
| In various companies related to computer graphics and | | | | With support from the International Game Developer |
| modeling, networking and internet technologies. He is an | | | | Association (IGDA), the gaming industry at large and |
| expert on games, graphics, geometric modeling, AI, | | | | academia, the summit's intent is to build a robust |
| error-correction codes and networking among other | | | | community, advance the careers and enhance the |
| areas. | | | | lives of game developers. IGDS will see participation |
| India GDS (IGDS) is the quintessential Indian game | | | | from Adobe, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Crytek, CRI |
| industry event focused on inspiring, connecting and | | | | Middleware, Sony, among several others. |
| educating the Indian game developer ecosystem. | | | | |