Schedule

This page includes the schedule for IndieCade 2019.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Time	Room	Session	Speaker
10:00am	Courtyard	Welcome! - Run by the Alumni Association	Chris DeLeon (speaker)
10:00am - 6:00pm		Game Tasting (rotating Show-and-Tell)
10:30am	Room 204	The Amazing Soaring Delights and Often Unforgiving Realities of Running a Small Game Development Studio	Mike Sellers (speaker)
10:30am	Room 216	Networking Chat - Kickstarter: Tales From the Cryptstarter - Hosted by Kickstarter and IndieCade Alumni	Anya Combs (speaker), Luke Crane (speaker)
10:30am	Room 213	Drop-In Mentorship	Erin Reynolds (speaker), Gary Alaka (speaker)
11:30am	Room 204	Building Your Community While Building Your Game	Benjamin Tarsa (speaker), Jada Griffin (speaker)
11:30am	Room 213	VR Networking Chat - Hosted by Oculus and IndieCade Alumni
11:30am		Live Music, Food Trucks, Book Signings, & More
1:30pm	Room 205	Creativity from Activisim: From Black Cyberfeminism to Localism and Protest	Benjamin Stokes (speaker), Kishonna Gray (speaker)
1:30pm	Room 213	Drop-in VR Help / Meet & Greet (Oculus Help Desk)
1:30pm	Room 216	Side Gigs for Game Devs - Networking Chat
2:00pm	Room 204	Custom Indie Hardware: the Do's, Dont's, and the Fun	Em Lazer-Walker, Jerome Scholler (speaker), Jonathan Bobrow (speaker), Yuting Su (speaker)
2:30pm	Room 205	An Infinite Number of Escape Rooms	Henry Smith (speaker)
2:30pm	Room 216	Is Academia For Me? - Networking Chat	Mike Sellers (speaker)
3:00pm	Room 204	Innovating in AR	Archie Prakash (speaker), Maria Essig (speaker), Nicholas Fortugno (speaker), Samantha Gorman (speaker), Sharang Biswan (speaker)
3:00pm	Room 205	PR - Why you Need it, How to DIY, and What to Look Out for and Look for When Hiring an Agency	Robert Brown (speaker)
3:30pm	Room 216	Being an Ally - Networking Chat	Josh Samuels (speaker)
4:00pm	Room 205	[Legal] So you Want to Start a Game Company? Business Formation, IP Strategy, and Game Contracts	Jonathan Pearce (Speaker)
4:00pm	Room 204	What is an Influencer Strategy and Finding the Right Strategy for Your Game
4:30pm	Room 216	Running a Game Jam - Networking Chat - run by Alumni Association	Tyler Coleman (speaker)
5:00pm	Room 216	Drop-in Mingle and Networking Chat - run by Alumni Association	Tyler Coleman (speaker)
5:00pm	Room 204	The Importance of Kindness - with the Developers from Nominated Games "Smile For Me" and "Kind Words"
8:00pm	Theater	[Film Screening/ Q&A] In Bright Axiom: A movie about a game that accidentally became a religion	Spencer McCall (speaker)

Friday, October 11, 2019

Time	Room	Session	Speaker
10:00am - 6:00pm		Game Tasting (rotating Show-and-Tell)
10:30am	Room 216	Indie Esports Networking Chat
10:30am	Room 204	University Game Show co-hosted by HEVGA
11:30am	Room 216	Game Dev Students Networking Chat	Megan Johns (speaker)
11:30am	Room 204	Playful Wearables	Eddie Melcer (speaker), Katherine Isbister (speaker), Theresa Tanenbaum (speaker)
12:00pm		Live Music, Food Trucks, Book Signings, & More
1:30pm	Room 216	Character and Costume Design - From Mind's Eye to Screen to Convention Floor	Caspar Gray (speaker), Garnet Filo (speaker)
1:30pm	Courtyard	What Matters to You in Indie Games Today? [Unconference]	Bonnie Ruberg (Speaker)
2:30pm - 6:00pm		Nominated Games Preview
6:00pm	Courtyard	IndieCade Awards Ceremony

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Time	Room	Session	Speaker
10:00am - 6:00pm		Game Tasting (rotating Show-and-Tell)
10:00am- 6:00pm		Games Expo
10:00am	Room 202, Room 203	[Edu] Educator Summit Welcome	Jeremy G. Bond (speaker), Jonathan Cassie (speaker)
10:15am	Room 203	[Edu] Using Roleplaying Games to Develop Social-Emotional Learning	Jonathan Cassie (speaker)
10:30am	Theater	Playing With Sound: Games That Generate Music	Andy Wallace (speaker) , Tammy Duplantis
10:50am	Room 203	[Edu] Teaching w/ Board Games: Learning Should be Fun!	Dustin Staats (speaker)
11:25am	Room 203	[Edu] Games Are Not Magic! Strategies for Deepened Learning in the Gamified Classroom	Christina Hinz (speaker)
11:30am	Theater	Indie Histories: Handmade Pixels and the IndieCade Book	Celia Pearce (speaker), Jesper Juul (speaker)
11:30am	Room 203	[Educator Summit] Learning Should be Fun!	Dustin Staats (speaker)
11:30am	Theater	Indie Histories: Handmade Pixels and the IndieCade Book	Celia Pearce (speaker) , Jesper Juul (speaker)
12:00pm	Room 203	[Edu] Gamified Design to Mobilize Student Engagement	Menelik Tafari (speaker)
12:00pm		Live Music, Food Trucks, Book Signings, & More
1:30pm	Theater	[Keynote] Failing Better: A Peek into Failure-Positive Creativity	Colleen Macklin (speaker) , John Sharp (speaker)
1:30pm	Room 202	[Edu] Teaching Programming: Coding for Creatives	Jeremy G. Bond (speaker)
1:30pm	Room 203	[Edu] Gamified Curriculum Workshop	Christienne Hinz (speaker), Dustin Staats (speaker), Jonathan Cassie (speaker), Menelik Tafari (speaker)
2:00pm	Room 202	[Edu] Teaching Design: Are your kids paper prototyping? What you need to know to keep them safe	Ashley Brown (speaker)
2:30pm	Theater	[Keynote] Participant Agency in Immersive Experiences: Playing the Accessible Unknown	Jenny Weinbloom (speaker) , Kathryn Yu (speaker)
2:30pm	Room 202	[Edu] Teaching Game Art: What Really Matters	Marcelo Viana Neto (speaker)
3:00pm	Room 202	[Edu] Teaching Producing: How to Build a Healthy, Happy Game - Simple Production Methods That Work	Richard Lemarchand (speaker)
3:30pm	Theater	What Sucks About Escape Rooms (And How We're Going to Fix Them)	Madison Rhoades (speaker) , Terry Pettigrew-Rolapp (speaker) , Tommy Honton (speaker)
3:30pm	Room 202, Room 203	[Edu] Educator Summit Wrap-Up	Jeremy G. Bond (speaker), Jonathan Cassie (speaker)
4:30pm	Theater	[Keynote] Killer Queen, Catan, and The Sopranos	Joshua DeBonis (speaker) , Nikita Mikros (speaker)
6:00pm - 10:00pm	Night Games