Join BackerKit and experts from Goodman Games, Phase Shift Games, and Weird Giraffe Games to discover how Collab-Funding can level up your next crowdfunding project.
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Collab-Funding on BackerKit is a game-changing way for creators to team up and amplify their crowdfunding efforts. By collaborating with fellow creators, you can expand your reach, boost funds, and have a lot more fun along the waygaining new fans, creating unique rewards, and cross-promoting for even bigger impact. Join BackerKit alongside industry experts Joseph Goodman (Goodman Games, Purple Planet), Jason Miceli (Phase Shift Games, Pocketopia), and Nick Kopp (Weird Giraffe Games, Pocketopia) to learn how to level up your next project through the power of collaboration. Open Q&A to follow the presentation.
Review of current capabilities and uses (primarily on land) of small and mid-sized drones on today's battlefields. Merle Robinson, retired DoD analyst, lead simulation designer on NSDMG staff.
This cyber horror panel focuses on using the themes and settings within cyberpunk games mixing in horror elements.
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Join Darker Days Radio for a discussion on cyber horror! Want to incorporate more horror elements into your cyberpunk games? We will discuss different ways to incorporate horror elements while maintaining the cyber genre's themes and mood.
Hosted by Darker Days Radio - Crystal Mazur, Chigg (possible other co-hosts!)
How to be a Delightfully Evil Game Runner for Your Players.
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There's plenty of information out there on how to start DMing. You might have been given "beginner scenarios" to run, and heard a lot about safety tools and consent sheets. But once you've spent enough time building that trust and rapport, you may feel like it's time to step up your game. In this panel, our cohort of DMs and game runners will share experiences and offer tools to help you lovingly torment your players (consensually!) with things like mind control, secrets, and even the famed TPK!
Caleb Stokes (God's Teeth), Ross Payton (RPPR), and Kenneth Hite (Delta Green RPG, The Fall of Delta Green), answer questions from the crowd.
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The panel covers running Delta Green, the games history, and a variety of upcoming Arc Dream Publishing and Pelgrane Press publications. We go where the questions take us! Join us if youre a fan of Delta Green, cosmic horror, or pontificating TTRPG writers.
Save time and money by designing with manufacturing in mind! The Panda team will show you how to consider manufacturing throughout the game design process to make it more profitable.
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Save time and money by designing with manufacturing in mind! As a game designer, whether you plan to self-fund, crowd-fund, or license your game to a publisher, it needs to be profitable to be successful. The team at Panda Game Manufacturing will show you how to consider manufacturing throughout the game design process, from initial concept to balancing and final tweaks.
A deep dive into the ups, downs, lessons, and pitfalls of designing a TTRPG. A look behind the scenes of the development of DC20 and what I have learned as best practices.
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I am the creator of DC20 and have spend years developing the game. I have gone from ideas that I play with close friends, developing a large community around it, launching it into a multi million dollar Kickstarter, and now fully developing it with a large community and team surrounding me. There were many mistakes and lessons learned along the way and I want to share that journey and insights with other game developers and people who love to know the inner workings of game design.
Developing Community Partnerships To Sustain Your Career
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Interested in embedding your creative career where you live? Join us as we discuss how to work with local institutions, foundations, and libraries to support your career.
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Featuring: Bryan Thao Worra, Community Guests, Diana Pho, Maurice Broaddus, Rob Cameron