Storium LIVE: Wendig, Sykes, Dawson, and Blackmoore Face Off for Charity
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Novelists Chuck Wendig, Sam Sykes, Delilah S. Dawson, and Stephen Blackmoore play Storium, the online storytelling game, live on stage! Proceeds will support Patrick Rothfuss’ charity, Worldbuilders.
Description:
Storium (storium.com) turns creative writing into an online multiplayer game, using mechanics inspired by role-playing games, story games, and card games. In this session, novelists Chuck Wendig, Sam Sykes, Delilah S. Dawson, and Stephen Blackmoore will play Storium live on stage, for you the audience! Your admission fee will go to support Patrick Rothfuss' charity, Worldbuilders, which uses the collective passion and power of readers, fellow authors, and book lovers to make the world a better place. Additionally, you'll be able to influence the story by making donations during the game session itself! Join us for laughs, absurdity, and a great story told by amazing writers, all for a great cause.
This women-led, women's-only seminar is designed to lay out the building blocks of system design.
Description:
Ever consider writing your own system, even if just to hack your favorite fandom into a quick game you can play with your friends? This women-led, women's-only seminar is designed to lay out the building blocks of system design, talk about the pros and cons of several options, and what they can do to your game system, as well as answer any questions from the audience. Women only, please!
Turn Your Idea into a Game or Simulation With Game Theory & What’s Your Game Plan?
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Enhance instructional plans with the mechanics of popular board games. This class has more games, theory, & is kept at optimum size. For educators/presenters/trainers/game designers.
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What does the lesson “Finding Citations,” the game “Trivial Pursuit,” and the mechanic “Bluffing” all have in common? In this bootcamp brainstorm facilitated by a professor from the City University of New York (CUNY), attendees are broken up into design teams whose job is to enhance an instructional plan with the mechanics of popular board games in only 20 minutes. Whether you have to teach the rules of citation or the rules of interviewing, there is usually a game plan that can help. If you’re an educator or trainer, you will learn how to integrate non-digital educational games or training simulations into your classroom or workspace. This full-featured workshop has more games and theory than the free workshop and is kept at optimum size, which allows us to actually talk to each other and explore your instructional problems in much greater depth.