{"id":10172,"date":"2024-05-06T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campusindustrial.udc.es\/the-ferrol-industrial-campus-organises-for-the-third-consecutive-year-a-conference-on-applied-and-persuasive-video-games-in-torrente-ballester\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:52:33","slug":"the-ferrol-industrial-campus-organises-for-the-third-consecutive-year-a-conference-on-applied-and-persuasive-video-games-in-torrente-ballester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campusindustrial.udc.es\/en\/the-ferrol-industrial-campus-organises-for-the-third-consecutive-year-a-conference-on-applied-and-persuasive-video-games-in-torrente-ballester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ferrol Industrial Campus organises for the third consecutive year a conference on applied and persuasive video games in Torrente Ballester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrol, 6th of May, 2024. For the third year running, the Torrente Ballester Cultural Centre Chapel will host, on Friday 10 May, from 9:30 a.m. onwards, the Power Up Applied and Persuasive Videogames Conference,<\/em> organised by the Industrial Campus of the University of A Coru\u00f1a together with the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol (EPEF), through the Master’s Degree in Design, Development and Marketing of Video Games, and in collaboration with the Xunta de Galicia and the City Council of Ferrol.<\/p>\n

The opening ceremony of the conference will take place at 09:45 a.m. in the chapel of the Torrente Ballester Cultural Centre. Centro Cultural Torrente Ballester, from the reitor of the University of A Coru\u00f1a, Ricardo Cao; the Coru\u00f1a, Ricardo Cao; of the concelleiro of Xuventude, Festas, Novas Tecnolox\u00edas e Marca Ferrol, Ar\u00e1n L\u00f3pez; and the director of the Campus Industrial Campus of the University of A Coru\u00f1a, Marcos M\u00edguez. At the presentation, scheduled for 18:30 in the Concepci\u00f3n Arenal Assembly Hall on the Ferrol Industrial Campus, the Vice-Rector of the Ferrol Campus and Social Responsibility, Ana Ares; the director of the Ferrol Polytechnic School of Engineering, Vicente D\u00edaz; and the coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Design, Development and Marketing of Video Games, Luz Castro, will take part in the event.<\/p>\n

The first speech of the day, scheduled for 10:00 a.m., will be given by Bel\u00e9n G\u00f3mez, founding partner of the video game development company specialised in connecting learning and games Divertifica, who will talk about how video games can improve the world. Afterwards, at 10:45 a.m., there will be a round table on Virtual Reality (VR) with the participation of the creative director of Maxina, Carlos Seijo; the specialist in Production and Marketing of Virtual Reality Projects and member of the Odders Lab team, Ver\u00f3nica Rodr\u00edguez; and the technical artist F\u00e9lix Men\u00e9ndez. Moderating the panel will be the head of Levels at Merge Games, Cristina G. Aradas. Finally, at 12:45 pm, the narrative director of Tequila Works, Michael Santorum, will speak.<\/p>\n

Presentation of the projects of the students of the master’s degree in Design, Development and Marketing of Video Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the afternoon, from 16:30 hours, the Concepci\u00f3n Arenal Assembly Hall of the Industrial Campus of Ferrol will host the presentation of two projects carried out by the students of the Master’s Degree in Design, Development and Marketing of Video Games over the last two years. Among the audience there will be numerous experts and professionals of the video film industry from different parts of Spain.<\/p>\n

The indie <\/em> studio Nameless will present What the Hell<\/a><\/em>, a side scrolling game with elements of platforming, 2.5D action and puzzles<\/em> set in Dante’s infernos. Behind this project are the students of the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol (EPEF), Lara Fern\u00e1ndez Romero, Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez Veiga, Natalia Froiz M\u00edguez, Miguel Gonz\u00e1lez Obenza, Paula Mart\u00ednez Taboada, Teresa Pecker Gayarre, Albert Ram\u00edrez Rivero and Alberto Tajuelo Real.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the indie <\/em> studio Pi\u00f1a Colada will present Platyfrog<\/a><\/em>, a 3D adventure and platform game where a platypus called Firu and a frog called Ben, members of two rival civilisations, end up in the Apocalypse Vault, where they must work together to survive. The team is made up of Laura Bey Senra, Andrea Fern\u00e1ndez Mari\u00f1o, \u00c1lvaro Hayek Alfonso, Sof\u00eda Pelegr\u00edn Mellado, Paula Portal Ru\u00edz, Anllelo A. Reina Monta\u00f1ez, Viviana Rodr\u00edguez Dom\u00ednguez and Eduard A. S\u00e1nchez Maya, also students at the Ferrol Industrial Campus.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that the students of the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol (EPEF) present their projects in public. Last January they showed the demos of their videogames at the stand <\/em> that the University of A Coru\u00f1a had at the III Xornada de Innovaci\u00f3n e Movemento Maker (InnovAmes), organised by the City Council of Ames together with Maiker Faire Galicia. On the 24th, 25th and 26th of May, they will take part in the Expotaku Fair in Coru\u00f1a.<\/p>\n

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promotional poster of the III Xornada Power Up Videoxogos Aplicados e Persuasivos that will take place on Friday 10th of May, from 09:30 hours, in the Centro Cultural Torrente Ballester, and from 16:30 hours, in the Sal\u00f3n de Actos Concepci\u00f3n Arenal do Campus Industrial de Ferrol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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