EXPO

Experience the Gamefest Expo!

Please stop by and learn about the latest products and services provided by Games Tools and Middleware Companies and Authorized Test Vendors.

The Expo area is open during the following hours:

6 August 2008

Location: The Great Hall

8:00-9:15

11:00-11:30

12:30-13:30

15:35-16:05

EXPO PARTICIPANTS

Check back soon to see an updated list of participating exhibitors.

Games Tools and Middleware Companies

Authorized Test Vendors

Microsoft Booths

Games Tools and Middleware Companies

Firelight Technologies

www.fmod.org

FMOD is a world-leading audio library and authoring toolkit.  Widely used in the games industry, FMOD has gained a strong reputation for its ease of use, powerful DSP architecture and comprehensive cross-platform support. FMOD has been used in such games as, World of Warcraft, Bioshock, Crysis and Guitar Hero 3.

 

Geomerics

www.geomerics.com

Geomerics is an innovation-led company specializing in graphics software for the games industry and beyond. It is built on a combination of advanced in-house IP, a world-class research team, and strong management experience. We are based in Cambridge, UK, and are building a team that combines many years of management and industry experience with some of the UK's leading researchers. Our first product is Enlighten.  Enlighten radically transforms the way lighting is handled in computer games. Instead of pre-baking the effects of global illumination into the scene, they can now be computed at run time, allowing for fully dynamic lighting that dramatically enhances realism.

 

Havok

www.havok.com

Havok is the premier provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and movie industries. Products include Havok Physics, Havok Animation, Havok Behavior and our new products Havok Cloth & Havok Destruction. Stop by our booth for demos. 

 

Illuminate Labs

www.illuminatelabs.com

Illuminate Labs creates rendering and lighting technology for next-generation games. Our products, Turtle and Beast, are used in AAA titles such as Killzone 2 and Mirror's Edge. Beast allows users to add global illumination and powerful baking functionality to their internal tools, and it also includes integration with the Unreal Engine.

 

NaturalMotion Inc.

www.naturalmotion.com

NaturalMotion Ltd. is the first company to create 3D character animation software based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis, a technology that utilizes Adaptive Behaviors and artificial intelligence to simulate the human-nervous system. NaturalMotion’s euphoria synthesizes 3D character animation in real time on PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360® and PC.

 

Scaleform

www.scaleform.com

Scaleform Corporation is a leading provider of tools and middleware for the video game, embedded, mobile, and desktop markets. Scaleform licenses a suite of cross-platform, hardware-accelerated vector graphics engines and UI toolkits, which allow users to design, develop, and deploy a variety of interactive entertainment content across a wide range of platforms and formats.

 

Umbra Software

www.umbra.fi

Umbra Software Ltd. makes games visibility optimization middleware. Umbra Software's Umbra™ middleware is the industry standard visibility optimization solution, and the secret for the super FPS performance in many of today's hottest titles.  Umbra speeds up the production and gameplay of some of the world’s most popular and graphically demanding titles and Massively Multiplayer online games. Developed since 2000, Umbra's solution is the only commercially available general occlusion culling software.

 

   

Authorized Test Vendors

 

Enzyme Testing Labs

www.enzyme.org

Enzyme Labs is a dedicated ISO 9001:2000 certified multilingual game testing company that provides multi-platform world class pre-certification, functionality, game-play, compatibility, focus groups and product evaluation, game balancing, MMOG and customer support services. We specialize in large scale linguistic and game testing projects and have over 300 full-time testers.

 

Testronic Laboratories

www.testroniclaboratories.com

A worldwide service is offered from Testronic Laboratories' facilities in the US, UK, Belgium and Poland specializing in multimedia quality assurance for all types of content on all mediums for all devices. Our sites operate to identical standards, guaranteeing the uniformity of approach essential to multinational titleholders and distributors.

 

   

Microsoft Booths

 

XNA Game Quality

The XNA Game Quality Team will be on hand to provide information and demonstrations on game submissions, testing, and tools for Xbox 360, Games for Windows, and Games for Windows LIVE. Come see what Game Quality is all about!

 

   
   

 

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