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 | Kickstarter Networking Chat - Hosted by Kickstarter and IndieCade Alumni | Luke Crane (speaker) |
| 11:00am | Room 205 | Kickstarter Mentoring - Hosted by IndieCade Alumni | |
| 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 | Room 204 | Marketing and Community Building - Hosted by Gamepedia / Fandom | |
| 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 | Hardware is Hard | Em Lazer-Walker, Jerome Scholler (speaker), Jonathan Bobrow (speaker), Yuting Su (speaker) |
| 2:30pm | Room 216 | Is Academia For Me? - Networking Chat | Mike Sellers (speaker) |
| 3:00pm | Room 204 | Innovating in AR | Archie Prakash (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 | 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 | Drop-in Mingle and Networking Chat - run by Alumni Association | Tyler Coleman (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 | Live Music, Food Trucks, Book Signings, & More | ||
| 11:30am | Room 204 | Playful Wearables | Eddie Melcer (speaker), Katherine Isbister (speaker), Theresa Tanenbaum (speaker) |
| 11:30am | Room 216 | Game Dev Students Networking Chat | |
| 1:30pm | Room 216 | Character and Costume Design - From Mind's Eye to Screen to Convention Floor | Caspar Gray, Garnet Filo (speaker) |
| 1:30pm | Courtyard | What Matters to You in Indie Games Today? [Unconference] | Bonnie Ruberg (Speaker) |
| 3:00pm | 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 | ||
| 10:30am | Theater | Playing With Sound: Games That Generate Music | Andy Wallace (speaker) , Tammy Duplantis |
| 10:30am | Room 203 | [Educator Summit] RPG4SEL: Using Roleplay Games to Develop Social-Emotional Learning | Jonathan Cassie (speaker) |
| 11:30am | Live Music, Food Trucks, Book Signings, & More | ||
| 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 | [Educator Summit] Games Are Not Magic! Strategies for Deepend Learning in the Gamified Classroom | Christina Hinz |
| 1:30pm | Theater | [Keynote] Failing Better: A Peek into Failure-Positive Creativity | Colleen Macklin (speaker) , John Sharp (speaker) |
| 1:30pm | Room 203 | [Educator Summit] Gamified Design | Tafari Menelik (speaker) |
| 2:00pm | Room 202 | [Educator Summit] 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) |
| 3:00pm | Room 202 | [Educator Summit] 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) |
| 4:30pm | Theater | [Keynote] Killer Queen, Catan, and The Sopranos | Joshua DeBonis (speaker) , Nikita Mikros (speaker) |
| 6:00pm - 10:00pm | Night Games |