Hosted to coincide with Melbourne International Games Week, and complementing a range of opportunities at their venue including the world premiere of HONK! Untitled Goose Exhibition, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) together with Square Enix will be hosting a special sit-down event on Tuesday 8 October 2024 – titled An Evening with Naoki Yoshida.
Naoki “YoshiP” Yoshida is arguably most known for being the producer who turned Final Fantasy XIV around from being a potentially lost cause, to one of the most popular and well received MMORPG’s of all time. His other recent substantiative role was as producer of Final Fantasy XVI, the latest flagship installment in the Final Fantasy franchise.
This developer talk will be hosted by Stephanie ‘Hex’ Bendixsen, Australian video game influencer and host of the former ABC gaming show, Good Game. According to ACMI:
Get a behind the scenes look and discover the strategies that have kept FINAL FANTASY XIV at the forefront of the genre. As Yoshida discusses some of the innovative approaches to game development, and what he’s learned from his 10+ years working on the FINAL FANTASY series.
Explore how Yoshida has challenged massively multiplayer online game (MMO) tropes in FINAL FANTASY XIV, how player behaviours have changed, and what he sees as the future landscape of MMO games. This is not to be missed by video game enthusiasts.
An Evening with Naoki Yoshida will be hosted at the Goldfields Theatre at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 8 October 2024. Tickets to the event are priced at $10, with a discounted price of $5 for ACMI Members.
