One moment in a video game can change everything: It's time for you to learn how to create one. The Game Developers Conference is thrilled to announce that game designer, author, and GDCA 2024 Ambassador Award recipient Fawzi Mesmar will be this year's keynote speaker at the all-virtual GDC Showcase, sharing how to make a career-defining game that players remember for a long time.
In "Creating Memorable Moments in Video Games," Ubisoft creative director and author Fawzi Mesmar will go through the psychology of how players and people generally recall experiences and form memories—and help attendees identify, and create, moments that are memorable and thoughtful. It's great for mid to senior-level game developers looking to grow their studios and careers, as well as newer developers emerging into the market, eager to stake their claim.
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Fawzi Mesmar is an award-winning creative director, game designer, author, public speaker, and mentor whose career has spanned over two decades in the games industry. Fawzi’s career has taken him to the Middle East, New Zealand, Japan and Europe, where he worked for several notable game companies such as Ubisoft, EA, King (Activision Blizzard), Gameloft, and Atlus, and he has worked on over 20 titles and had a hand in developing well-known franchises like Battlefield, Candy Crush, Mario Rabbids, Star Wars, and Persona.
Fawzi is the author of the first-ever textbook about game design in Arabic, Al-Khallab On The Art of Game Design, and has co-authored nine comic books under the Men of Honour series. His next book, Demystifying Creativity: On Originality in Game Development, comes out on December 24 (with pre-orders starting on December 3).
In recent years, Fawzi won the Game Dev Heroes award in 2020 within the Game Design category and, in the same year, was named one of the industry's top 100 game changers. At this year's Game Developers Choice Awards, he received the Ambassador Award, awarded to individuals who elevate video games and the industry as a whole to a better place.
Fawzi Mesmar's keynote takes place on Thursday, September 19 from 9:05 to 9:55am PT, as part of our all-virtual event happening September 19-20. Join Fawzi and several other incredible game experiences at GDC Showcase!
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