Room 216 (Sat)

• Flipping the Bird!: How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-scooter (and Other Disruptive Transit)

  12:00 pm - 1:50 pm

  Jeff Watson, Jose Sanchez, Frances Anderton

• Think:Indie - Games and Labor

  3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

  John Vanderhoef, JP Karliak

Room 203 (Sat)

• Puzzles in Unexpected Spaces

  10:10 am - 11:00 am

  Yunus AYYILDIZ, Rita Rosenfeld, Colleen Macklin

• Keeping the Band Together

  11:00 am - 11:25 am

  Michael Annetta

• Making a Meal with Bites You Can Chew: Your Capabilities and Game Development

  11:30 am - 11:55 am

  Nicolas Oueijan

• ThinkIndie: Indies of Color

  2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

  Vivian Phillips, Gabriela Aveiro-Ojeda, Tonia Beglari, Alejandro Quan Madrid, Funkster Scerbak

Room 204 (Sat)

• For SCIENCE! - Game Design as a Science

  10:10 am - 11:00 am

  Trynn

• Controlling Your Controllers--Alternative Controllers 101

  11:00 am - 11:50 am

  Maria Ferreri

• Scaling Your Indie Studio: Lessons Learned

  12:00 pm - 12:50 pm

  Robyn Tong Gray, Rachel Hwang, Katie Chironis, Sunni Pavlovic

• An epic journey from paper to cardboard

  1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

  Wesley Jeffries, Nathan Walker

• Making History: Practical Tips for Researching and Designing Historical Games

  2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

  Dr. James Coltrain, Tracy Fullerton

• Composing for Existing Blockbuster Franchises: The Music Of Star Wars Battlefront I and II

  3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

  Gordy Haab

• Make It Personal: Are We Designing Empathetic Games?

  4:00 pm - 4:50 pm

  James Earl Cox III, William Hellwarth, and Cat Wendt

Room 180

• Keynote: (The) Play's the Thing: Games Meet Theatre [[Panel]]

  6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Room 204 (Thurs)

Room 203 (Thurs)

• Questions We Hope You Don't Ask: How To Vet A Publisher

  10:10 am - 11:00 am

  Tucker Dean

• Business Formation IP and Contracts

  11:00 am - 11:50 am

  Jonathan Pearce

• Explicit Power Dynamics - BDSM in games

  12:00 pm - 12:25 pm

  Bobbi A Sand

• The Game: The Game (A Pick-up Artist Dating Simulator)

  12:30 pm - 12:55 pm

  Angela Washko

• AAA is for Activism

  1:00 pm - 1:25 pm

  A.M. Darke

• Game-Theater: Put Your Body Where Your Mouth Is

  1:30 pm - 1:55 pm

  Jessica Ellen Creane

• Videogames Are Not Games--And Why That Matters

  2:00 pm - 2:25 pm

  Jordan Magnuson, Chris DeLeon

• Riffs on Roguelikes: Fourteen Years of 7DRLs

  2:30 pm - 2:55 pm

  Jeff Lait

• Explosions are cool, but...

  3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

  Brandon Sichling

• Thinking Outside the Bootcamp

  4:00 pm - 4:25 pm

  Niki Selken

• The Making of Shadow Brawlers, and Inca Games' Fight to Foster the Spanish LatAm Games Industry

  4:30 pm - 4:55 pm

  Elizabeth Olson

• Actors and Indie Games, a Union Contract Made in Heaven by People Who Love Indies

  5:00 pm - 5:50 pm

  Sarah Elmaleh, Crispin Freeman. Cissy Jones. Katie Sikkema

Room 216 (Fri)

• Think:Indie - Activism and Games

  2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

  A. M. Darke, Angela Washko, Derek Curry, Christina "Phaz" Curlee

Room 203 (Fri)

• Marketing & Community-Building Bootcamp

  10:10 am - 12:00 pm

  Kacey Mast and Benjamin Tarsa

• Can I Kick It?: Personal Development Through Solo Projects

  12:25 pm - 12:55 pm

  Izzy Abdus-Sabur

• Don't Forget the Business and Marketing Components of Your Game

  1:00 pm - 1:25 pm

  Kelly Maguire

Room 204 (Fri)

• How To Teach Your Board Game

  10:10 am - 11:00 am

  Jessica Chu, Katie Khau, Tim Kuehlhorn

• Data Is your most powerful weapon: how a moddable hacking game can be a tool for digital activism

  11:00 am - 11:25 am

  Rich Metson

• Gamifying Twitter for Political Dissent

  11:30 am - 11:55 am

  Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki

• Game Show (Colleges, Clubs, Universities)

  12:00 pm - 12:55 pm

  Gamekedo (Chris De Leon, Daniel Lazar), Santa Monica College (Julia Raz, Sophia Hariz), NYU (Toni Pizza) USC: (Jane Pinckard, Michelle Pina) Moderated by Collin Kelly

• Games and Interpersonal Trust

  1:00 pm - 1:15 pm

  Brian Handy

• Creating A Game Without Borders

  1:20 pm - 1:35 pm

  Vicki Lau

• No Dead Ends: Open Stories, Closed Systems, and the Development of real choice in Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood

  1:40 pm - 1:55 pm

  Andrew G. Schneider

• Audio Adventures

  2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

  Jesse Vigil, Thomas Wilson

• Indies at the Core of a Thriving Video Game Ecosystem

  3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

  Kevin Klowden

• VR Time Travel

  4:00 pm - 4:50 pm

  Panel

• Upright Citizens Brigade Masterclass

  5:00 pm - 5:50 pm

  Upright Citizens Brigade

• Escape the Theme Park [[Panel]]

  6:00 pm - 6:50 pm