Lars Espeter

Game Technology Specialist, GDoutsourcing

Interactive Media Development – From the Idea to the Application

Ground Floor, GSB Academic Conference Centre
09:00 - 10:00, Wed 30 Oct

"The main reason why companies do not delve into using interactive media and game technology is the fact that they are unsure what a production like that takes in terms of planning, processes and budget. This talk cover those topics and explain the basic approach to interactive media production. Outcome: Especially those who attended the Game Technology talk will gain a good understanding of which steps need to take place in an interactive media production. This will also establish a few thought processes that will make you more comfortable judging a production like this."

Digital Leadership - How to keep companies prepared for the 4th Industrial Revolution

Ground Floor, GSB Academic Conference Centre
10:15 - 11:00, Thu 31 Oct

"New technologies change the environment that businesses work in at an increasing pace and with more impact. This talk will provide thinking models and approaches to enable you to judge how you can use new technologies and how to prepare for them. Outcome: You will get an overview of how new technologies are affecting each other, how to interpret what different technologies can do for your company and how to prepare for emerging technologies that might be changing your industry in a few years from now."

Game Changer – How Game Technology creates new opportunities for businesses worldwide

Blue Ribbon Room, The Commodore Hotel
12:00 - 13:00, Wed 30 Oct

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, mobile, console or desktop games – all are created using the same tools and technologies. This talk will explain what game technology is and why the interactive applications that can be created with it are being used more and more in fields like movie production, architecture, engineering, education and advertising. Outcome: After this talk you will understand what game technology is and why its impact on businesses worldwide will increase rapidly. Join this talk to find out why and how game technology can benefit you and your company.

About Lars Espeter

Lars Espeter developed and published his first game, Skullitaire, in 1993 as a Shareware title.

After that, his team and he worked on several projects and games for multiple companies in the game development, advertising and education industries. The projects included work in creating graphics, animate movie sequences, game design concepts, and entire games.

In 2000 the team around Lars started developing its own real-time 3D graphics engine and its first self-funded 3d action game ‘Bacteria’ which was released in 2001. Other casual and educational games like ‘Mathemagus’, which made it into the Top Ten games in the German Game Awards for casual games in 2006, followed using the same game engine.

During that time Lars also produced a series of early mobile games based on Universal movie licenses for a German developer and game concepts for several other German game developers.

In 2007 Lars was offered the opportunity to develop and run a three-year course in Game Design & Development for the German design academy, the Designschule Schwerin, and later parallel at its sister school, the Designschule Leipzig, from 2007 to 2014.

From 2013 until 2014 Lars developed the Game Graphics & Multimedia Entertainment Higher Certificate course for the Friends of Design Academy of Digital Arts in Cape Town.

The course is based on the fact that Game Technology will be a major part of all industries in the future and can and will be applied in many different ways – Game development being the most complex among those.

Since then Lars has developed a few small mobile games, AR applications, consulted the game course, corporates and has been a speaker on the topics of game technology for businesses, the future of game technology and the 4 th Industrial Revolution. He now connects European companies with South African developers and guides that process as a consultant and the man on the phone.