Gamercamp happens because of the hard work of our volunteers, presenters, and sponsors. Thanks to our sponsors we can provide our attendees a fuller experience and we bring unique ways for sponsors to be presented in front of 2,000 total developers, media, students, and enthusiasts. (For more on our media coverage, please see here.)
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An agency of the Government of Ontario, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) plays a leading role in supporting the province’s creative economy by delivering innovative programs, services and funding for the publishing, music, film, television and interactive digital media industries. Ontario’s creative media companies have developed a thriving, multi-billion dollar industry with a wealth of opportunity.
Toronto has Canada’s largest concentration of design businesses and is one of North America’s top four centres for design. This means you will be not only learning design, but also living and breathing it in our brand new, state-of-the-art facilities in downtown Toronto.
Our programs are set up to allow you to reach your career goals in steps. For example, our one-year Art and Design Foundation program will help prepare you to meet the entrance requirements of our Graphic Design program. For Graphic Design grads who wish to specialize further, we offer postgraduate programs in fields such as game design, advanced digital design and design management. The School of Design was named one of the top design schools in the world in Business Week (October 2007).
Rogers is Canada’s largest provider of wireless voice and data communications services and one of Canada’s leading providers of cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone services. Through Rogers Media we are engaged in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, magazines and trade publications, and sports entertainment. We’re focused on investing in the best networks, coolest products and most advanced technologies.
Get Set Games is a developer of challenging, entertaining and engaging games in the mobile space including the Apple iOS platform, Android and Nokia’s Symbian platform. Founded in Toronto in July 2009, their most recent game Mega Jump has been a hit, downloaded over 22 millions times across the world. Get Set is currently working on a follow-up titled Mega Run.
The Centre for Social Innovation is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in Toronto and around the world. We believe that society is facing unprecedented economic, environmental, social and cultural challenges. We also believe that new innovations are the key to turning these challenges into opportunities to improve our communities and our planet.
Windows Phone 7 is backed by a rich developer ecosystem that is creating a variety of quality apps and games that take advantage of the phone’s unique features and design. Microsoft’s companywide commitment to establishing a new mobile developer platform has already attracted hundreds-of-thousands of creative app and game developers from around the world. Windows Phone 7’s smart design, integrated experiences and fresh developer platform provide a variety of unique features that change the way people engage with apps and games; notification, location and map services, Live tiles on start, hub integration, Xbox LIVE, Bing and Zune integration.
With the Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft is introducing even more features that make it a true competitor in the mobile space. New features include fast-app-resume, third party multitasking, background tasks and agents, camera stream access, full TCP/IP socket support, local database support, enhanced notification services, deep linking into applications from the home screen, the ability to use Silverlight and XNA in the same project and enhanced in-app search capabilities through Bing Search Extras.
