Event category: Sessions

The Neuroscience of Games: One Weird Truth About Learning Styles That Will Change Everything You Know About Play

September 29, 2018

Are you Timmy, Johnny, or Spike? A Gamist, a Narrativist, or a Simulationist? Gud, or a filthy casual? These handy stereotypes can help designers clarify what experiences their games create, but may also lead...

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

September 29, 2018

Have you, an indie developer, ever felt that real human voices would infuse extra life into your unique, personal game – but figured voiceover was too expensive/mysterious/complex a component to add? Think...

Thinking Outside the Bootcamp

September 29, 2018

We live in a continually abstracted digital age. The ways in which people are learning and making within this economy, the SF Bay Area in particular, is changing rapidly. Along with formal design and tech focused...

Explosions are cool, but…

September 29, 2018

I’m interested in interrogating the use of violence as entertainment and how it intersects with designers’ ethics. We’ll get into a working definition of violence, how violence in games simplifies...

Riffs on Roguelikes: Fourteen Years of 7DRLs

September 29, 2018

Canon formation is as contentious as it is necessary. To talk critically about gameplay, to understand what gameplay is and isn’t, and even to recognize when gameplay is new, requires us to build a vocabulary...

Videogames Are Not Games–And Why That Matters

September 29, 2018
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We often use the terms “videogame” and “game” interchangeably these days. And while it is true that videogames can certainly be games, it is important to note that they are not games in any exclusive way. Rather...