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Freelance games artist Loukia Kyriakidou gave a talk at MIGS 2019 on 'What a Hero Looks Like: An Exploration of Bodily Prejudices in Games.'

One of the great features of The Montreal International Games Summit is the conferences and expert speakers that come every year to share their knowledge. Topics range from dissecting the look and feel of a particular game to innovations on Ray Tracing to enhance the capabilities of graphics presentation in …

At MIGS 2019 it was refreshing to focus on discovering a lot of smaller titles instead of being wowed by the big Triple-A games.

Unlike consumer-focused videogame conferences, MIGS is filled with publishers looking to fund games, developers looking to hire talent and find funding, and middleware organizations looking to forge relationships.

Kuzminski is uniquely focussed on trying to bring accessibility to games for visually impaired gamers.

The Montreal International Game Summit has games to look at and interesting panels, but the expo floor is really centered on recruiting and partnerships. I learned a lot from Ubisoft, Remedy, Red Hook and more.

At MIGS the sessions are nicely separated into a number of categories that gave paths for each participant to explore. 

Deschambault told me he drew inspiration from all kinds of sources, like 'BladeRunner' and 'Star Wars,' but despite similarities to his inspirations, the look and feel of 'Project 777' is unique, dark and captivating.

One of the more interesting developers at MIGS 2017 was Framstore VR.

As you see the images on the screen, says the composer, he really wants you to fall deeper into the world and emotions being conveyed through hearing the music.