The Jordan Gaming Development Task Force is preparing to host “Jordan Gaming Summit” November 26, 2011 at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center - Dead Sea. The Gaming Summit will be attended by IT professionals, Employees of gaming companies, in addition to university and students.
The Jordan Gaming Summit will bring together a variety of internationally renowned speakers to share their ideas, experiences and thoughts about the gaming industry as it aims to foster game development ecosystem in the region, and to solidify Jordan as the Gaming hub of the Middle East. It will focus on providing a well-balanced learning experience that virtually guarantees that participants will go back home with a richer understanding of the technologies that make a difference to their work life and career.
The Summit will enrich technical skills of participant as they will receive a focused education on a combination of programming and creative effort to best practices and secrets from international Game Developers on how to design and develop visually attractive and creative mobile games.
Nour Khrais, Jordan Gaming Task Force Chairman commented “This will be a great opportunity for all game developers to meet and network with other fellow game developers from all walks of life, creators, luminaries, authors, committers, community heroes, best speakers and experts from around the world”.
The Jordan Gaming Development Task Force is an open and independent coalition of Jordan’s premier gaming companies. Operating under the umbrella of Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan – int@j and supported by King Abdullah II Fund for Development - KAFD , the Task Force’s objective is to advance Jordan’s gaming development capacity and help propel the Jordanian gaming on a local, regional, and international scale.
Capabilities of Jordanian gaming industry:
• Development and publishing of original games for multiple platforms, including high end and commercial creative capabilities, animators, scriptwriters, producers, storytellers working in state of the art studios.
• Development of social games, accessible at anytime and anywhere, multi-lingual, with ease of use in a technologically advanced ecosystem.
• Localization of games, based on unique understanding of pan-regional gamers’ attributes and preferences.
• Management of soft infrastructure that enables gaming industry, including payment gateway, customer support, community development, localization.
• Studio capability, including the development and publishing of original games for multiple platforms.
• Technology based on solid engineering capability, with capable multi-platform game development studios.
It is the belief of various stakeholders that Jordan stands a serious chance to become the Interactive Games (“IG”) Development capital of the Middle East, in which original content meant for the local and global market is generated in Jordan.