EXPO

    A special thank you to the following companies who participated in the Gamefest Expo 2007:

EXPO PARTICIPANTS

Games Tools and Middleware Companies

Authorized Test Vendors

Microsoft Demo Stations

Games Tools and Middleware Companies

     

AiLive Inc

www.ailive.net

AiLive is a leader in machine learning for games, building tools that allow natural engagement and personalization through player participation. AiLive was founded in 2000 by a unique world-class team of AI experts and game industry veterans.

     
     

Anark Corporation

www.anark.com

Anark Gameface is an advanced 3D UI development tool designed to offer flexible artist-driven workflow that meets the performance and quality standards demanded by next generation game developers.

 

     
     

Annosoft

www.annosoft.com

Annosoft develops high quality automatic lip sync technologies for use in-game and at production time. In addition to superior quality, our software is animation independent and can fit nicely into existing animation systems.

     
 

Audiokinetic Inc.

www.audiokinetic.com

Audiokinetic develops audio solutions for the video game industry. By streamlining production, our middleware allows sound designers and audio programmers to create more immersive environments.  Wwise, our integrated audio pipeline solution, sets new standards in audio production.

     
 

Autodesk

www.autodesk.com/me

Transform your most ambitious visions into reality.  Autodesk provides solutions designed for digital media creation, management and delivery across all disciplines, from game development, film and television visual effects, color grading and editing to animation, and design visualization.

     
 

CRI Middleware, Inc.

www.cri-mw.com

CRI makes high-quality development tools for the games industry. With its CRIWARE suite of tools: CRI Movie, CRI Audio and CRI Vibe - CRI has tools that assist developers in making great games..

     
 

Digimask Ltd

www.digimask.com

Digimask is a fully-automated process enabling the creation of a gameplayer's 3D head model from 2 photos taken by the Vision camera for the Xbox360. The head is fully articulated and so can be animated to speak, emote and express. The Head is then used to integrate the player - graphically - into the game.

     
 

Digini Inc.

www.digini.com

Digini Inc is the developer of Blade3D, the first integrated 3D game development system designed exclusively for the Microsoft XNA platform. Blade3D provides a highly extensible cross platform rendering engine, visual design environment and professional level support for 3D content.

     
 

Emergent Game Technologies

www.emergent.net

Emergent Game Technologies provides middleware technologies and services that give developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building, testing and managing games. Our Gamebryo engine has been used in more than 200 games, including many top performing titles.

     
       

Firelight Technologies

http://www.fmod.org

Firelight Technologies provides the widely used FMOD Ex sound system and FMOD Designer tool. FMOD is a revolutionary audio engine, pushing the boundaries of interactive audio while being scalable across 12 platforms. FMOD is free to download and evaluate at www.fmod.org

     
 

Fonix Speech Inc.

www.fonix.com

Fonix Speech, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix Corporation,
provides automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech and voice compression solutions for electronic dictionaries; videogame consoles; mobile phones and handheld devices; computer telephony systems; assistive market products; and vehicle telematics.

     
 

Fork Particle

www.forkparticle.com

Fork Particle is the leading particle system advanced special effects middleware and authoring solution provider to video game developers. The Fork toolkit and runtime SDK enables game developers to create high quality special effects and enhance visual quality of their products. Fork effects production pipeline shortens game development cycle and reduces development budgets.

 

     
 

Futuremark (YouGamers)

www.yougamers.com

YouGamers, a Futuremark Corporation property, is a professional online publication that tackles PC games in a distinctive and exciting way. Our team of experienced and knowledgeable writers examine how the look, feel and performance of a game scales across wide ranges of PC hardware configurations - from the minimum specifications stated by the publisher right through to top-end systems.

 

     
 

GarageGames
www.garagegames.com

GarageGames, creators of the XNA-based game engine Torque X, provide game development tools and technology at an affordable price. The Torque Game Engine has been used to develop countless games on various platforms, including Marble Blast Ultra on Xbox Live Arcade.

     
 

GestureTek

www.gesturetek.com

GestureTek is the world leader in video gesture technology. GestureTek’s patented technology is deployed in a wide array of applications and environments including video game consoles, mobile devices, interactive billboards, interactive floors, windows and kiosks, physical rehabilitation, LBE and corporate/military boardrooms.

     
 

Havok

www.havok.com

Havok is the premier provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and movie industries. With world leading expertise in physics, animation and tools, we make it our business to turn our customers’ creative aspirations into technical realities.

     
         

NaturalMotion Inc.

www.naturalmotion.com

NaturalMotion is the creator of Dynamic Motion Synthesis, which enables high-quality 3D character animation in real time by combining artificial intelligence, biomechanics and dynamics simulation and of the advanced animation engine and powerful authoring tool chain morpheme.

     
     

Omegame

www.omegame.com

Omegame provides Menus Master, a complete solution for easily creating sophisticated game user interfaces: 2D and 3D front-ends, in-game UIs and heads-up displays (HUD). The game user interface can be fully authored by artists, without any need for a programmer’s assistance.

     
 

Quazal Technologies, Inc.

www.quazal.com

Quazal develops in-game networking and lobby/matchmaking services across multiple platforms. With full support of Xbox Live via our Rendez-Vous LSP, Net-Z and Spark!360 technologies, we have a solution for any online need.

     
 

RAD Game Tools

www.radgametools.com

RAD Game Tools is the developers Bink Video, Miles Sound System and Granny 3D. RAD's products have been used in over 7,500 video games. For more information check out our website at www.radgametools.com

     
 

Replay Solutions, Inc.

www.replaysolutions.com

Replay Solutions provides a technology that is like 'TiVo for Software'. Replay allows deep, source-code level recording of any game, without requiring any source code changes. Any bug you can find can be immediately reproduced, and debugged!

     
 

Scaleform

www.scaleform.com

Scaleform provides the leading user interface (UI) middleware for games. Using Scaleform GFx and Adobe Flash Studio, Console and PC game developers are rapidly creating cinematic Flash UI for titles such as Crytek/EA's Crysis, Bioware's Mass Effect, and Pandemic’s Mercenaries 2.

     
 

Softimage

www.softimage.com

Softimage develops innovative 3D animation tools to digital artists in the games, film, and television industries. Its product line includes SOFTIMAGE|XSI, 3D animation software; SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT®, facial animation software; SOFTIMAGE|CAT™, character animation plug-in; and ALIENBRAIN®, asset management software.

     
            

Suva Interactive, LLC

www.suva3d.com

Suva3D is a complete game development framework for the Xbox 360 and Windows platform, providing a vast array of core technologies and support infrastructure required by casual and top XNA game developers. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, a shader-based renderer, and integrated physics.

     
 

Technicolor

www.technicolor.com

Our talented team of game industry veterans continues Technicolor's leadership in art production, animation, audio and localization services. Technicolor works with the industry's top developers and publishers on their premiere titles.

     
 

Touchdown Entertainment, Inc.

www.touchdownentertainment.com

Touchdown Entertainment is a leading provider of 3D game development technologies. Jupiter EX, the latest product from Touchdown, offers a complete set of integrated technology components and content creation tools for the development of PC and Xbox 360 games.

     
 

Trinigy GmbH

www.trinigy.de

Trinigy is a leading company in 3D Game Engine middleware. Our cutting-edge Vision Game Engine powers 70+ commercial game titles worldwide. Renowned companies like TAKE 2, ATARI, NEOWIZ, PLAYWIRELESS, SPELLBOUND, SPROING and THREEWAVE rely on Vision for developing their games.

     
 

Authorized Test Vendors

     
 

Babel Media

www.babelmedia.com

Babel is the leading international provider of specialist services to the global games and interactive entertainment industries. Founded in 1999, the company offers a complete post production service for PC, Console, and Handheld content including QA, localization, audio and print.

     
          

Enzyme Testing Labs

www.enzyme.org

We reduce your production costs and time to market by providing world class multilingual testing, product evaluation, focus group and technical support services.
ISO 9001: 2000 certified.

     
 

iBeta Quality Assurance

www.iBeta.com

iBeta Quality Assurance is a nationally accredited, full service QA lab that provides independent testing for publishers and developers of interactive entertainment software. In addition to PC testing and hardware compatibility testing, iBeta is licensed to test on all platforms.

     
   

Testronic Laboratories

www.testroniclaboratories.com

Specialist in Game QA services including localization, functionality, online/multiplayer, PC compatibility, and Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony compliance. We are one of the six Worldwide Authorized Xbox® and Xbox 360™ Test Vendors (AXTV).
More information: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].

     
 

VMC Game Labs

www.vmcgamelabs.com

VMC Game Labs is the world’s largest independent games testing company. VMC supports publishers and developers across all games platforms, with consulting, project management, expert testing, customer contact support and IT services.

     
 

Microsoft Demo Stations

     
    

Microsoft Casual Games

www.games.msn.com

Microsoft Casual Games offers more than 700 games via MSN® Games, Windows Live™ Messenger and Xbox LIVE® Arcade, providing the ultimate playing experience for millions of casual gamers from around the world to compete, collaborate and socialize.

     
 

Microsoft Game Development Kit

The Professional Game Platform team is interested in your feedback!  We build the Xbox SDK and the DirectX SDK. Please come by and tell us what you think.  Fill out a survey and you're entered into our contest! 

     
      

Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com

See demos of the latest work from Microsoft Research:  “carrot-and-stick learning for racing games” and “scaling P2P games in low-bandwidth environments.”

     
 

Microsoft Visual C++

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc

Microsoft Visual C++ is the premiere development tool for building high-performance native code Windows applications.  Advanced compiler optimizations, a world-class symbolic debugger, superior ISO C++ language compliance, and a highly productive development environment all help simplify the creation of large-scale software systems.

     
 

Xbox 360 Accessories

The latest Xbox accessories continue to deliver hardware experiences that provide fun for everyone, from hardcore gamers to families and friends. Come and try the new Xbox 360™ Big Button Pad, the Xbox 360™ Chat Pad, and more to find out for yourself how the latest hardware from Xbox is changing the way you game.

     
 

XNA Game Platform Extensions

www.xna.com

We will be demonstrating how to simplify and automate your Xbox 360 game testing with XInput Simulator, now shipping in the August XDK. In addition, we will be discussing how Xbox LIVE server features can be added to your game with XNA technology

     
 

XNA Game Quality Certification

The XNA Game Quality Compliance, Mastering Lab and Games for Windows Teams will be on hand to provide information and demonstrations on  Game Submission, Technical Certification Requirement Testing, and Games for Windows Branding.

 

Come see what Certification is all about!

     
 

XNA Game Studio

http://creators.xna.com/

XNA Game Studio is a revolutionary new software tool that makes it easy to develop video games for both Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360™ platforms.  Experienced developers through beginners will find XNA Game Studio a valuable addition to their development efforts.

     

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