Public Speaking and Media

Public Speaking

If you are interested have collected a playlist of my recorded public speaking events here.

Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP), ‘Engineering to Empower: Code that empowers content creation’ with Kevin Stoker, October 2023.
PAX AUS, ‘Accessibility Panel’ [Panel], October 2022
Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP), ‘Lessons from the Trenches’ [Panel], October, 2022
Technically Games Conference, Speaker, November, 2021
- Developing Gender Systems: Techniques for making your game inclusive for everyone (slides)
Technically Games Conference, MC & Speaker, November, 2020
- Architecting for Live Service Games on Mobile (Recording, slides)
FRIDAY LATES: LOCAL HEROES OF GAMING, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, November 22, 2019
Festival of Ambitious Ideas: Female Innovators, Canberra, 2019
RMIT University, ‘The Technology of Publishing a Game’ & ‘Introduction to Improving Performance in Unity’, Games programming students, Melbourne, 2019;
PAX AUS, ‘Utopia // Dystopia: Environment-Driven Storytelling’ [Panel], October 2018
Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP), October 2018
- ‘Lessons in Technomancy: Using code generation in a dynamic data system to build flexible and stable games fast.’ (Slides uncompressed, compressed) (Recording)
- ‘Pixels and Words: Lessons in Building Interactive Narrative Systems’, with Blair Leggett (Recording)
- ‘Game Development Architecture Roundtable’
- ‘Developer Lightning Talks’ Keynote, Moderator Tony Albrecht, myself with Rob Davis , Saf Davidson, Nick Suttner, Jean Leggett , Keith Fuller & Kate Edwards (Recording)
RMIT University, ‘Tips and Tricks for Improving Performance in Unity’, Games design students, Melbourne, 2018;
New Zealand Game Developers Conference (NZGDC), August, 2018
- Architecting for Live Service Games on Mobile (Slides)
- Game Romances: More than Just Heart Icons [Panel]
Global Game Jam 2018 Melbourne Location Keynote, “The Games that could be…”, January, 2018
Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP), ‘Don’t be THAT Programmer: Engineering for quality and maintainability’, October, 2017 (Slides) (Recording)
#SheMakesGames Keynote, ‘From the Impossible to the Inevitable’, October, 2017 (Slides)
Connect Expo, ‘Engineering for longevity in a mobile world’, Melbourne, 2017;
RMIT University, ‘A Journey from Student to Professional Developer’, final year games students, Melbourne, 2017;
RMIT University, ‘The Technology of Publishing a Game (a.k.a. stuff I wished I knew)’, Games programming students, Melbourne, 2017;
Louisiana State University, ‘The Game Production Life Cycle’, Computer Science Students, Louisiana, 2016;
NOLA Game Developers Meetup, ‘Unity tips and tricks, as well as an overview on data driven development’, (Slides) 2015;
NOLA WIT, St Paddy’s Game Dev Shindig, 2015;
Global Game Jam at Louisiana State University, ‘Jamming with Unity’, 2015 (Slides); and
Wizard World Comic Con New Orleans, ‘Meet Gameloft New Orleans’, 2015.

Media

ABC Radio Canberra, with Ross Solly, Loot boxes and gambling mechanics in games, 12 December 2022
ABC Adelaide, Drive Program, Games and the 50th Anniversary of Pong, 28 November 2022
ABC Radio Canberra, Afternoons with James Vyver, Cult of the Lamb and The Australian Game Industry, 22 August 2022
ABC Radio Darwin, Drive with Liz Trevaskis, Simulation Games, 8 August 2022
ABC Radio Canberra, Afternoons with Georgia Stynes, 28 Feb 2022, Playing games with the Family/Kids
ABC Radio Canberra, Drive with Anna Vidot, 14 December 2021, The Australian Games Industry and the Australian game development industry survey.
ABC Radio Canberra, Mornings with Adam Shirley, 5 November 2021, Neopets and Nostalgia Games
ABC Radio Canberra, Mornings with Adam Shirley, 31 August 2021, Online Gaming Time Restrictions for minors in China.
ABC Radio Canberra, Afternoons with Georgia Stynes, 9th August 2021, Digital communication platforms and safety with kids.
ABC Radio Canberra, Breakfast with Adam Shirley, 9 July 2021, The World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood Incident and pandemic behaviour modelling.
ABC Radio Canberra, Afternoons, 28th Jan 2021, Interview on Getting into Games
ABC Darwin, Afternoons with Mikaela Simpson, Interview on Wholesome games, 9 June 2020
ABC Darwin, Afternoons with Mikaela Simpson, Interview on Games in a time of crisis, 7 April 2020
2CC Canberra Afternoon Show, Interview on Games in a time of crisis, 7 April 2020
“Gaming campaign getting people playing together while staying apart”, Canberra Times, 7 April 2020
“The 2019 Gender Equality InGames List”, InGames, 20 November 2019;
ABC Radio Canberra, Afternoons with Paula Kruger, 18th November 2019, (Interview starts at around 1:07);
“When storytelling meets technology” [Print Cover story], Canberra City News, September 26, 2019;
“Anna and the games people play”, Canberra City News, September 25, 2019;
“Game Masters: five decades of video game history”, Her Canberra, September 19, 2019;
‘“I’ve seen sleep disorders, chronic stress fatigue, dissolved relationships, broken marriages…”‘, Game Industry Biz, October 2018;
‘Anna Tito On Learning Game Development And Beyond‘ SAM JARMAN, October 2018;
MCV Pacific Women in Games List, ‘Women In Games: Anna Tito‘, ‘The 2018 Women In Games Awards presented by Xbox finalists‘, ‘The 2018 Women In Games List‘, July 2018;
‘Melbourne’s Girl Geek Academy announces first all-women video game making hackathon’, Anthill, March 2018;
Named one of 2015 ‘Forbes 30 under 30 in Games‘ ;
Named one of Develop Magazine’s ‘2014 30 Under 30 Developers for the brightest emerging talent in games‘;
Named by Pollenizer as one of ‘Australia’s Top 50 Female Programmers‘, March 2014;
‘The big list of female programmers in Australia‘, Pollenizer;
‘Three Aussie women nominated for international game award‘, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2014;
‘Three Australians Were Just Nominated In Microsoft’s Women In Gaming 2014 Awards‘, Kotaku , 6 March 2014;
‘Anita Sarkeesian, more up for nominations at Women in Gaming Awards‘, Gamasutra, 19 March 2014
‘GDC 13: Women in Gaming Awards honours developers‘, Develop Magazine, 29 March 2013;
‘Getting a Game Design Education in Australia’, James O’Connor, Hyper Magazine, Issue 228, October 2012. page 70-75 ; and
‘Split Screen: Looking to the future‘, Sydney Morning Herald, August 2011.

GAME REVIEWS & PODCASTING

Podcasts:

Reviews:

MythiC Review: D&D Daggerdale, August 2011, GameTaco.net
MythiC Review: Fancy Pants Adventures, August 2011, GameTaco.net