Alliance numériQC, Québec's digital and multimedia industry network, is proud to announce the success of this year's Montréal International Game Summit (MIGS) held from November 2 to 3, 2005. The second annual gathering of gaming industry professionals surpassed all expectations, attracting more than 750 participants from Québec, Canada, the United States and Europe, along with more than 30 media from across North America, and over 55,000 visits on the official MIGS website.

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Day 1

Warren Spector, Founder/President and Project Director, Junction Point Studios
Summary of his conference

Neil Young, Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Arts
Can a computer game make you cry?

Day 2

Hideki Konno, Manager/Producer of Software Development Group No. 1, Nintendo Co
What we have learned from Nintendogs

Eric Zimmerman, CEO, gameLab
Making and breaking the rules: Game design as a critical practice

Here are the PowerPoints presentations available:

Doug Church, Executive Producer, Electronic Arts
AI in Gaming: what is our point?

Hideki Konno, Manager/Producer of Software Development Group No. 1, Nintendo Co
What we have learned from Nintendogs (entire speech, english and japanese)

Frank Lantz, Creative Director, area/code
Away From Keyboard: Designing Real-World Games

Pascal Luban, President, The Game Design Studio
Multiplayer Level Design

Patrick Prémont, Head of Technology, JAMDAT Mobile Canada
3D on Cell Phones

Warren Spector, Founder/President & Project Director, Junction Point Studios
Presentation of his conference

Randy van der Vlag, Lead 2D Artist, Gameloft
Pixel Dreams: The highs and lows of 2D games

Day 2 - Game Design Challenge: Sex in Games

The call for speakers is open. We are looking for the best speakers who are willing to share their experience and skills with our crowd for the 2006 Edition. We invite you to submit a session proposal for our next MIGS: speakers@montrealgamesummit.com

If you were a participant of the MIGS 2005 conference and did not have a chance to fill out our survey, you are welcome to do so by downloading it at this address: MIGS_Survey.pdf Please send us your comments by fax 1 (514) 848-7133 or e-mail at: info@montrealgamesummit.com