Our final TIGA conference of the year, the TIGA Smartphone and Tablet Games Event 2013’ is kindly sponsored by Dolby Laboratories.

What does 2014 hold for mobile and tablet game developers? Our final TIGA conference of the year will help debate this.

Our speakers will speak on and answer questions on a range of topics including:

Looking ahead: the future of mobile games in 2014

• Building a strong community and fans for your game in the year ahead
• Challenges and solutions to achieving high quality visuals on mobile
• Your way forward – focusing on a single platform vs cross platform development?

Audio

• Importance of audio design in a game
• Improving sound quality in a game

Game Design – making good game design into great game design

• Immersive game experiences that enthral the player

Media coverage and going viral: spreading the word about your game

• Getting to the top of the app store charts
• Fed up of chasing press & media? Marketing strategies to help you think outside of the box?

Doing things differently: business models for your games studio

• Purely premium experience swimming against the tide of free to play
• IAP – Play nice with your gamers
• OFT investigation and chance to ask questions about what it could mean for your business model

Best practice in the games industry:

• Pitfalls and lessons learnt by game developers
• Building a sustainable games business

Strategy and development:

• What are the opportunities for your studio with broadcasters/commissioners/platform holders?
• Creating content alongside TV programmes
• Mobile and second screen in the house

Why attend our event?

• Great speakers who share their experiences of success and failure with an open attitude
• Share and learn from other developers
• Hear from industry speakers who are at the forefront of smartphone and tablet games development and infrastructure and consider what the future of mobile and tablet games means to you and your business
• Meet platform holders
• Network with others in the games industry
• Opportunity to ask questions in an open environment