This year’s PAX Aus will feature more than 100 panels across six theatres, featuring everything from Q&As, game demonstrations, quiz shows, cultural discussions, how-to lessons, concerts and more.
Some of the event highlights include Storytime with Pete Hines, the Vice President of PR & Marketing at Bethesda Softworks, will be talking about his 15 years working on franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Wolfenstein; A Chat with Chris Roberts: The Original Wing Commander, a round table chat with Chris about everything from the early Mark Hamill days all the way through to the most successful crowd funded game of all time; Media Molecule – Ask Us (Almost) Anything, Media Molecule are responsible for creating Little Big Planet and Tearaway, studio director Siobhan Reddy and her team, along with ABC TV’s Good Game host Gus “Goose” Ronald will explore Mm’s rationale to game design and building communities of like-minded gamers and Political Proactivism for Geeks which will bring together key members of Australia’s political parties to weigh in on recent cuts and changes to Australia’s funding of games development and discuss where the Australian games development industry is headed.
