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Non-casual Stories in Casual Games 
From Theory to Practice
Good, Better, Best Practices 
Give Your Fans a Forum
Bringing It All Together
Working Nowhere and Everywhere
Language Barriers, Culture Gaps, and Time Warps 
Returning to the Basics of Effective Communication 
The Keys to Audio Excellence 
Rules of Development 
Localization 
Technical Session Summary
Game Development Challenge 
How to Attract and Keep More Women in Casual Games
Sharing Best Practices: Partnerships Done Right 
The Other Virtual Reality
Winning the Project: How to Win Work from US Publishers 
Playing the Outsourcing Game: A Hands-on Guide 
Best (and worst) Development Practices from Sandlot Games 
Core Values of the Casual Industry 
Simple Rules of Casual Games Publishing 
Download Size Doesn’t Matter
Using Windows 7 Features for Casual Games 
Scheduling Creativity 
RISKY BUSINESS: The Risk of Creativity and the Creativity of Risk 
Developing for Xbox LIVE Arcade 
Nightmare or Nirvana? 
Audio Q&A Panel 
Turning Demos into Sales
The Birth and Life of a Sound Effect 
Entering the Casual Games Market 
Building Community 
Exclusivity in Casual Games 
Finding Fatal Flaws - Lessons from Kongregate 
The Name of The Game! 
Integrating Live Instruments, Singers & Voice Actors into Your Game 
Overall Musical Theme Integration into a Game 
Overview of Tools & Engines 
Play Games to Work Smarter 
Making games approachable and fun through user-testing 
Voice Over Production 
Working in audio for the games industry: Freelance vs In-House/Staff 
Confessions: The Big Portal 
Confessions: Starting Your Own Studio 
From Portals to Ad Networks: Monetizing webgames 
Getting into Xbox LIVE Arcade and Xbox LIVE Community Games 
Introduction to Console Game Development 
Our Big "Bang!" on WiiWare 
Taking Your PC Game To The Consoles 
Publisher Showdown 2009 
Tuning Your Game: The Essentials of User Testing 
Best Practices of Game Testing 
Working Remotely 
Designing Music and Sound Concurrently with Game Design 
Leveraging the Project Darkstar Online Game Infrastructure for Casual Games 
Discussion of Game Development Process - from Concept to Maintenance 
Managing Remote Teams 
Containing the Flow of Infinite Ideas - a Look into the Music-Creation Process 
Passion vs. Financial
Virtual Teams
Secrets of Casual Game Development 
What Your Lawyer Wants To Tell You, But You Can't Afford To Hear
Hand Me The Remote 
Everything Looks Like A Nail? 
The Producer is Far Far Away
Indie Game Development
One Billion Dollars!