Location: ZHdK (Austellungsstrasse 60 8005 Zürich) in Room SQ 504 (5th floor). Meeting starts at 20:00. Please vote on this Doodle if you’re planning to come or not. The speakers of our next meeting will give you exciting insights into independent game production! Stay tuned for details by checking our website and following @igdach on Twitter. Speakers and topics
- Insights about GIANTS Technology and GIANTS Christian Ammann, Founder and CEO GIANTS Software
Giants is the well-known Zürich based company behind the best selling titles "Farming Simulator" and "Demolition Company". With Christian's session we will get insights into the Swiss success story of retail games.
- Physics Simulation in Video Games Adam Moravanszky, Engineering Manager at NVIDIA PhysX
After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a Master's degree in computer science, Adam cofounded and became chief software architect of NovodeX AG, laying the groundwork for one of the world's most widely adopted game physics SDKs. NovodeX was later acquired by AGEIA Technologies where he continued to drive PhysX technology as a software architect. Following AGEIA's acquisition, Adam is a Principal Architect at NVIDIA, where his team works to do away with the remaining problems that prevent physics in games from becoming truly ubiquitous!
- Stöck Wyys Stich Werner Bättig, CEO Optobyte
Since its founding in 1992 Optobyte released several sucessful products on the Swiss market. "Stöck Wyys Stich" is their most known product and is the best selling Jass game of Switzerland. Optobyte sold over 3 million software units already.
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