CHRISTOPHER Natsuume, best known as the producer of the hit first-person shooter game Far Cry, is one of the speakers at the Business Process Outsourcing Summit that will be held in the Philippines.

Natsuume, who is now co-founder of casual PC games development firm Boomzap (http://www.boomzap.com), will speak about game development during the summit, which starts December 2.

Natsuume will be one of the first major game development icons invited to the Philippines to talk on game development, according to the Games Development Association of the Philippines (GDAP), which worked on bringing Natsuume to the Philippines.

Game development is considered to be niche markets in the booming Philippine outsourcing industry. The local game development industry in the Philippines, however, remains small. However, GDAP has said that the number of companies and employment opportunities have been growing steadily in the last few years.

In previous years, the annual BPO Summit included game development as a minor track. But it was only last year that game development became a separate track, along with BPO services, transcription and digital animation.

For this year’s BPO Summit, GDAP has prepared a more extensive track focusing on game development not just for PCs but also on the new generation of game consoles, such as the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

The summit will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Mandaluyong City, Philippines.