RPGs can help us develop valuable skills for our everyday lives. This seminar uses current quantitative scientific research to demonstrate the benefits of RPGs for leadership development.
Learn the basics of writing & performing stand-up from experienced comics. Want to gain even more comedy XP? Either be in our workshop WKS19150689 or watch it SEM19150688.
We are two gamers & legal professionals who love to serve game designers, having presented educational seminars at GenCon for almost 10 years. Come ask questions & hear some war stories!
A seminar discussing how to encourage girl gamers, specifically middle schoolers, in the tabletop RPG world.
Description:
Come learn how a private school in TN encouraged and built up middle school girls to not only play tabletop RPGs, but also to GM, design, and participate in group chats with several female gaming professionals throughout the country!
Letting the Reader Fill in the Blanks: Finding a Balance in Worldbuilding
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How many details do you feed the reader? How much do you let them fill in themselves? Christopher Morgan, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Bryan Young, and Richard Byers discuss this delicate balance.
This panel will give you serious business tips on how to work with a licensed property & elevating your own original intellectual properties so that someday someone will come to license from you!
Lecture: An overview of the impact of logistics from ancient times to today with a view to how wargames have handled the subject poorly or well. Presented by Dr. George F. Nafziger (Captain/USN, ret)
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Lecture: An overview of the impact of Logistics from ancient times to today with a view to how wargames have handled the subject poorly or well. Presented by Dr. George F. Nafziger (Captain/USN, ret.), author of many Napoleonic and Military History books.
Lotte Reiniger is an unsung treasure in puppetry & animation with a career spanning 50 years & 30+ films. Animation historian Whitney Grace will reveal Reiniger's career & contribution to history.
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For 3 years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped with scissors, cardboard, sheets of lead, glass panes & a camera, animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger filmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) using a technique of frame-by-frame silhouette animation she developed. As the result of a number of factors--her gender, her German ethnicity, World War II & a lack of funding--Reiniger became a footnote in animation history. Yet her 60-plus films plainly show her skill & dedication to her craft. This detailed account of her life & work describes her significant contributions to animation, puppetry, Weimar cinema & modern filmmaking
Join the hosts of Ludology for our third annual live Q&A episode from Gen Con! Gil Hova & Emma Larkins will answer any & all questions you have about the deeper side of game design.