Event category: Sessions

Many games usually have a distinct look built into them that is recognizable enough to harken back to their ethnic or cultural origins. For example, Western games tend to have a more polished and refined quality...

A review of my year attempting to find interactive media design in my own Catholic faith, and bringing it to the medium of video games that I love. This talk discusses what worked, what didn’t, and what...

Ever wonder what goes on day-to-day in game design school? Hear from professors and students from SMC’s Center for Media and Design, USC’s Interactive Media Division and NYU Game Center in a Newlyweds-style...

We will discuss the gamification of social media for political dissent with a focus on the microblog platform, Twitter, and our game WarTweets. While social media has been a crucial instrument for the Occupy...

Off Grid is an extensively moddable stealth hacking game about this Patriot Act, Googling, IoT hot-mess of a world we live in. This talk will go through how you can make a game moddable so that it puts the power...

Congratulations! You’re the proud parent of a new board game! But how do you show off what your baby does without losing your players’ attention or turning them off? In How To Teach Your Board Game,...