Want to get your work published? Learn about presentation, interview skills, networking, use of email & social media as tools, elevator pitches, how to make an opportunity when there isn't one & more!
Protect Yourself! Why Game Designers Need To Know Patents, Copyrights, & Trademarks
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Tailored for game designers! Learn about patents, copyrights, & trademarks with 2 game aficionados & IP professionals. Please bring your questions, Q&A included!
Are you interested in psychology? Are you looking for some insight into what makes gamers tick? Come join a talk on some interesting connections between psychology & gaming!
The popular "gaymer" panel discussion returns for its four year! Industry panelists lead discussion of gender and sexuality issues in gaming from design and publishing to game-play and community.
On your own, but not alone. Focusing on the business of producing & selling your own product; learn about resources to make that part easier.
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On your own, but not alone. Focusing on the business of producing and selling your own product; learn about resources to make that part easier. This seminar is interactive. Audience questions and comments welcome. Topics may include information about trade groups, administrative structure, pros and cons of distribution, crowdfunding (e.g. Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Patreon), marketing and advertising, the usefulness of contracts, and other topics the audience wants to discuss.
Join Paizo editors for a hands-on workshop aimed at improving your RPG writing skills. This informative seminar will help to take your writing to the next level.
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Join Paizo editors for a hands-on workshop aimed at improving your RPG writing skills. From using the right words to properly integrating rules content to editing your own work, this informative seminar will help to take your writing to the next level.
RPPR Game Designer's Workshop: Everyday Hustlin' in Game Design
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Talk with publishers about how to get started working in games. With a few tips, you could be barely scraping by just like the pros!
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Talk with Caleb, Ross, and publishers about how to get started writing for games. With a few tips, you could be barely scraping by just like the pros! The goal of RPPR's GDW podcast has always been educational. To that end, Ross and Caleb will do their best to give advice on "breaking into the industry" in a post-Kickstarter age. The conversation will focus on the more logistical, legal, and mundane business of freelancing in RPGs. On the publisher side of things, Adam Jury and Rob Boyle from Posthuman Studios are dropping by to lend their expertise. Prepare to be demystified, warned, clued-in, and tipped-off about the path to seeing your work get included in games. Questions are welcome and encouraged.