Event category: Sessions

Personally Professional

September 29, 2018

This visual talk is about the many paths to indie survival. How feeding your identity struggles may inspire others, and the ups and down in the serious business of making games personal. In early days of my time...

Control Your Space: Creating a Unique Presence at Public Venues

September 29, 2018

Control Your Space will introduce and unpack kernels of wisdom from museology and theme park design applicable to showing games at festivals, conventions, conferences, or in public spaces. Through anecdotes and...

The Age of Play, or Why I Spent 8 Years on 1 Thing

September 29, 2018

The Age of Play is a 90 minute journey into today’s Renaissance of games and play. Shot over an 8 year period, The Age of Play features dozens of interviews and numerous games, from a wide-range of types,...

Game-making for kids with kids

September 29, 2018

This workshop will demonstrate a brief creative exercise that can be used to engage kids in making choice-based story-games. Beginning with creating characters facing silly or momentous choices, the exercise...

Indie Game Development Made Easy Using Houdini

September 29, 2018

Learn how to utilize procedural game assets and optimize game dev workflows using Houdini! This talk will cover some of Houdini’s game dev tools, as well as showcase some cool new indie games that are using...

Everyone Has a Podcast: Five Things To Do When Launching a Transmedia IP

September 29, 2018

While developing the Champions of the Earth tabletop RPG, designer Collin Kelly conspired with producer Jesse Vigil to create a heavily-produced audio drama/liveplay hybrid podcast for the game. As the format...