NÄr | What | Description | Category | Where | |||||
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SATURDAY | Saturday | ||||||||
08:00 | The doors are opened for participants with early access ticket! | General | BugÄrdshallen | Saturday | |||||
09:00 | The doors are opened for those with regular tickets! | General | BugÄrdshallen | Saturday | |||||
10:00 – 10:45 | đłđŽ How game music is made | Norwegian game musician Waterflate (Castle Crashers) and YouTuber and musician PelleK takes you through their musical journey. | Panel | Panelrom | Saturday | ||||
11:00 – 11:45 | đłđŽ Ever dreamt about creating comics? | Norwegian comic book publisher Egmont has seen an increase in comics in 2023. SideQuest 2 are one of their most recent publications, creators David Skaufjord and Trine Lise Normann takes us through how their book got published by Egmont. | Panel | Panelrom | Saturday | ||||
12:00 – 13:30 | đŹđ§ Nobuo Uematsu with band | Legendary composer of the Final Fantasy game series attends a panel at Retromessa before the afternoon concert. | Panel | Panelrom | Saturday | ||||
14:00 – 14:45 | đŹđ§ Art in videogames | Kevin Bayliss and Will Overton have created videogame graphics and illustrations for decades, this is how they work. | Panel | Panelrom | Saturday | ||||
15:00 – 15:45 | Making music at Ocean Software | Jonathan Dunn is a legendary british video game composer, hailing from the C64 and 8-bit era. Most people probably know his work from his many soundtracks at Ocean Software, where he worked on IPs like Rambo, RoboCop and The Simpsons. | Panel | Panelrom | Saturday | ||||
18:00 | Concert with Nobuo Uematsu and his band | Nobuo Uematsu and his band plays a concert at Hjertnes Kulturhus. Tickets must be bought from hjertnes.no | Concert | Hjertnes Kulturhus | Saturday | ||||
21:00 | Concert with The Dave Wise 5 â Entrance fee 100,- NOK â Age: 18+ | David Wise and his band consisting of David Doak, Nigel Atkins, Philip Jordan, Kevin Bayliss and Grant Kirkhope plays a concert at Kurbadhagen! They'll perform game music and cover some songs. We're hoping to see as many as possible of you drop by! | Concert | Kurbadhagen | Saturday | ||||
SUNDAY | Sunday | ||||||||
08:00 | The doors are opened for participants with early access ticket! | General | BugÄrdshallen | Sunday | |||||
09:00 | The doors are opened for those with regular tickets! | General | BugÄrdshallen | Sunday | |||||
10:00 – 10:45 | đłđŽ Game Mistress: Becoming a retro-streamer | Norwegian Twitch-streamer Theresa Michelle Ridgeway AKA Game Mistress walks us through how she became a retro game streamer and how she uses retro equipment. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
11:00 – 11:45 | đŹđ§ Banjo Kazooie bonanza | In the 90s Grant Kirkhope and Paul Machacek worked on the legendary Banjo Kazooie game. In this panel they discuss how the game was made. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
12:00 – 12:45 | đłđŽ Victor and Chris | Popular Norwegian duo Christopher Robin Omdahl and Victor Sotberg, known from NRK-series FlippKlipp, Tv2 Bleep, Skal vi danse, and Maskorama drop by to answer some questions. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
13:00 – 13:45 | đŹđ§ TBA (more info coming!) | Come back later. Here you'll find info about other upcoming announcements! | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
14:00 – 14:45 | đłđŽ Creating the comicbook Katteguden FrĂžya | Odin Helgheim is known as the creator of comicbook Ragnarok. Now he is publishing a new book set in the same universe, about the cat god FrĂžya. Odin talks about how the book was created. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
15:00 – 15:45 | đŹđ§ How David Wise and Grant Kirkhope compose their music | Learn more about how the iconic composers write music for games. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday | ||||
16:00 – 16:45 | đŹđ§ The ultimate Rare-panel | All the Rare affiliated guests at Retromessa come together for one big panel at the end of the convention. A Retromessa tradition. | Panel | Panelrom | Sunday |