{"id":3628,"date":"2012-06-12T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2012-06-12T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:39:40","slug":"wgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/06\/wgc\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the Webgame Conference on June 21st!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snjv.org\/data\/classes\/actualite\/actu_523_vignette.png\" alt=\"La Webgame Conference 2012 annonce son programme et ses intervenants\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\nOnly 10 days to go until this year&#8217;s Webgame conference, which will take place on June 21st in Paris at Gait\u00e9 Lyrique. \u00a0The conference is an annual event and brings together leaders and innovators in web, mobile, social games to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the sector. \u00a0This will be the third installation of the Webgame conference, which is organised each year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snjv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNJV<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudeBaguette\/status\/210033470242697216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As announced last week<\/a>, Rude Baguette is very excited to be a media partner for this year&#8217;s installment.<\/p>\n<h1>There are only a few spaces left, so if you&#8217;d like to attend register now!<\/h1>\n<p>This year&#8217;s conference is shaping up to be a interesting program that looks to be truly European. \u00a0There are various annual global &#8216;conferences of reference&#8217; in the web, social, and mobile games sector including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Developers conferences<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webgameconf.eu\/program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gamescom<\/a>, and\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/europe.casualconnect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casual Connect conferences<\/a>. \u00a0Given the growth of and interest in the Webgames conference, we&#8217;re optimistic that this conference has the ability to eventually evolve to the same level of influence and notoriety. \u00a0This year&#8217;s event will host 400 attendees from throughout Europe and beyond. \u00a0You can view a detailed program of the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webgameconf.eu\/program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0SNJV have done a good job of rounding up a solid list of speakers, which includes both participants from France&#8217;s games sector, such as Ubisoft and <a title=\"The \u2018Ville\u2019 Wars: Zynga attacking Kobojo over use of the word \u2018Ville\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/05\/09\/ville-wars\/\">Kobojo<\/a>, as well as other global leaders in social and web gaming, such as Facebook, King.com, Sulake, and Bigpoint.<br \/>\nThe conference will concentrate on various pertinent themes and subjects affecting the industry including monetization, multi-platform gaming, the increasingly important role of gamer analysis, and launching in the US. \u00a0As mentioned, amongst the speakers there will be several from France&#8217;s games sector who will offer their thoughts around these topics and, will hopefully, also offer new insights on France&#8217;s games sector. The conference is quite timely as there has been some very positive activity in France&#8217;s games sector in recent weeks including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finance-monthly.com\/2012\/05\/axa-private-equiy-acquires-a-stake-in-bulkypix-to-support-the-companys-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulkypix&#8217;s recent raising of funds<\/a> from AXA Private Equity,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itespresso.fr\/internet-digital-virgo-sempare-de-prizee-com-54064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchase of Prizee.com<\/a> by Digital Virgo, \u00a0and a wide-range of new game launches (e.g. educational games from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chocolapps<\/a>, upcoming launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snjv.org\/fr\/actualites\/jeu-fly-sortira-2012,524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ankama&#8217;s new PC game FLYN<\/a>, etc). This news is encouraging to hear in a sector where funding is often a problem, inhibiting the development of game startups and\/or smaller studios. \u00a0In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/04\/20\/game\/\">our interview in April with the president of SNJV Nicolas Gaume<\/a>, we discussed this challenge as well as the broader problem of the general lack of awareness that France continues to be a global leader in the games sector. \u00a0SNJV&#8217;s organization of this annual conference is an important effort in their objective to increase the noteriety of France&#8217;s games sector, both domestically and globally.<br \/>\nSo, make sure to check out the Webgames conference if you can. \u00a0Another great point of the event is that it is only 150\u20ac, so a great value for a solid program. \u00a0We will, of course, be attending , so we&#8217;ll make sure to report back with a recap of the day and provide our thoughts on the main highlights and takeaways .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 10 days to go until this year&#8217;s Webgame conference, which will take place on June 21st in Paris at Gait\u00e9 Lyrique. \u00a0The conference is an annual event and brings together leaders and innovators in web, mobile, social games to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the sector. \u00a0This will be the third installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[140,3533],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-facebook","tag-snjv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}