Death to Paper Design: Workflows, Tools and Iteration in Level Design

Nicolás Tornatti Ceballos

  Level design today is less about following fixed steps and more about balancing creativity with practicality, ensuring that workflows support, rather than limit the outcome of our work. It’s about finding smarter, more fluid ways to bring game worlds to life and not waste time in pointless or inefficient tasks. In this talk, I won’t present the ultimate solution for success, but I will rather share insights from my experience to shed some light on this constantly evolving world that is level design.

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Lots of Objects, Not Enough Time: Practical Use of Acceleration Structures

Dániel Berényi

In graphics, game development, and many other math-intensive fields, we frequently encounter tasks that require searching or comparing large numbers of objects based on their spatial relationships. Examples include collision detection in physics engines and visibility determination when rendering complex scenes. This talk will cover examples ranging from simple to complex, highlighting the inefficiencies of naive approaches and demonstrating how acceleration structures can help. We’ll also explore problems that still require creative solutions beyond standard techniques.

Leveling Up: Challenges and Benefits of Growing Your Studio

  This panel discussion explores the obstacles, risks, and new challenges that come with growing a game development studio. We’ll also examine how company operations and creative processes change during expansion, as well as the benefits growth can bring—not just for the studio itself, but also for the broader local industry and economy.

Art Direction and Worldbuilding in Fabular

Péter Meszlényi

  How do you build a world from a single idea? How do visual tools support the content? When does the imagery itself become the story? Is the essence in the details? Péter Meszlényi explores these questions, while also covering illustration, concept art, and art direction.

Concept Art and Visual Design in the Entertainment Industry

János Gárdos

 In this talk, János will introduce the workings and structure of Pixoloid Studio and provide insight into their daily workflows. He will discuss how the studio gets involved at different stages of production, how they communicate with clients, and showcase concrete examples of how they tackle various visual design challenges.

UI material creation: texture-based or procedural and SDF-based approach?

Róbert Haáb

   Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages – it depends on the problem you are trying to solve. We will now look at the topic through UI examples, but these principles can be easily transferred to other areas. As an addition, we will also delve a little into the world of SDF (Signed Distance Field): how to create shapes in shaders based on pure mathematics – without textures, pixel-precise.

Custom Game Engines - The Promised Land of Pet Projects

Mateusz Szymoński

   Building a custom game engine may sound like madness — it’s complex, time-consuming, and touches nearly every branch of computer science. Why would anyone spend months (or years) building their own engine instead of just making a game? In this talk, Mateusz Szymoński — technical artist at CD PROJEKT RED and co-founder of Sticky Piston Studios — shares why homegrown engines are the ultimate playground for curious makers. From endless opportunities to learn and create, to the “wow factor” of showing off your own tech, discover how custom game engine can become a magnum opus for the right kind of developer.

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Life at Astra Virtual Studio – The future of filmmaking up close

Zubán Dániel Rafael

  Rafael az előadásában feltárja, hogyan zajlik a filmgyártás virtuális környezetben: a LED-falas autós jelenet felvételétől a nagyobb filmes LED setupokig - a stúdió életen át egészen a színészek reakciójáig. Továbbá ad egy izgalmas betekintést az Unreal jelenlegi produkciós megítélésébe és a filmipari elvárásokba, illetve különböző kijátszási technológiákba. Unreal Engine, Chaos Arena, Pixera, stb.

Beyond the Basics: Making Your Game Sound Amazing in Unreal Engine

Zsombor Bencsik

  Sound is one of the most powerful pillars of the gaming experience — but how can you create a truly professional, immersive audio experience in Unreal Engine? This talk offers practical tips and proven techniques to elevate the sound design of your project. Topics include sourcing and editing high-quality sound effects, dialogue, and music, setting up submixes and sound classes correctly, and implementing spatial effects like reverb efficiently. You’ll also get an introduction to the possibilities of Metasound, as well as best mixing practices — from balancing audio levels to applying ducking.

Lightning-Fast Iteration in Unreal Engine with script languages

Ádám Fülöp

  Unreal Engine traditionally offers two scripting options: C++ and Blueprints. C++ can lead to slow iteration and numerous potential errors, while Blueprints can be hard to manage and less programmer-friendly. AngelScript provides a middle ground between the two: it enables fast and safe development while retaining all the benefits of text-based coding. In this talk, we’ll explore when to choose C++, Blueprints, or AngelScript, review the scripting languages currently available for Unreal Engine, and take a closer look at the fundamentals of AngelScript.

Introduction to World Partition in Unreal

Ádám Bánóczki

  In this talk, we’ll explore why Unreal Engine introduced the new World Partition system for building worlds. How does this approach differ from the old one, how does it work, and what advantages does it offer over Sublevels? I’ll show you how this method divides the world into cells, and finally, we’ll look at how to fine-tune level streaming. cellákra a világot ez az új módszer. Végezetül pedig megnézzük, miként tudjuk finomhangolni a pályarészek betöltését.