Gen Con and CMU Applied Game Design Certificate 2023-2024
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Learn about the courses being offered as through the Gen Con and CMich Press Game Design Certificate and the slate of courses for 2023-2024. Damon Stone will discuss his past and future courses.
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The Central Michigan University and Gen Con Game Design Certificate is an online synchronous sequence of courses offered on the Gather.town platform. Each course has both an expert from the game industry and a curriculum expert to help guide course design. The courses help people design, implement, and consider applications of game play across fields of expertise. Whether you are interested in using games in a classroom, helping on board people as a part of Human Resources, or just want to improve your game night, this certificate and its classes are designed to support your needs. You will always have a live instructor on hand to help you meet your design needs.
The National Security Decision Making Game staff reviews recent changes and things to watch next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Iran, Israel, Russia, North Korea. What's CNN missing?
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Overview, analysis and insights on current and near-future world affairs. This panel discussion and seminar, the signature event of the National Security Decision Making Game (NSDMG) staff, explores current, and potential future, problem areas around the world with a focus on domestic/international areas they feel deserve may not have gotten the attention from the media that they warrant. Want to know what to expect in the next year? What might happen and what are its implications? What are drivers, what indicators to watch for, and how might events be affected by the U.S. and the West? What potential catastrophes is CNN missing? NSDMG presentations have been enjoyed by more than 30K attendees since 1990, at GenCon, Origins, DragonCon & other gaming, government & educational venues.
Join Alphinius Goo, Director of Gooey Cube, for an exciting, informative, and entertaining fireside chat about brightening up your table and making games memorable.
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Do you want to have that wow factor at your table? Do you want your players to come back session after session eager for more? Do you crave that moment when the players say, “best game I’ve ever played”? Then this is the seminar for you. It will be fun, entertaining, and a little be gooey…okay, maybe a lot! But come any way.
Leadership of Greater Than Games will discuss the past year (and other past years) as well as their upcoming plans for the next. A short Q&A will follow.
Hacking in Fiction, Games, & the Media - The Good, the Bad, & the Bizarre
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Join our panel of professional hackers as we discuss interesting & absurd portrayals of hacking of 2020-23 in games, movies, TV, & books. Learn ways to depict hacking in a fun but accurate manner.
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We're back, baby! Join our annual panel of professional (and slightly inebriated) white hat hackers as we discuss the best and most dreadful portrayals of hacking over the pandemic years (2020-2023) in games, movies, TV, and books. Ask questions you've been dying to about real hacking, cybercrime, infosec, and malware. Learn ways that you can depict hacking in a fun but accurate manner.
Writers discuss their Summer 2023 book releases - and how they're managing them.
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Join our panel of authors, each with Summer 2023 book releases, as they discuss the process of promoting and publicizing a recent work in the current environment, on and offline, from a writer's perspective. Panelists: S E Lindberg (moderator), George Jreije, Sean CW Korsgaard, John Jackson Miller. Track: GCWS Career.
Writers discuss their Summer 2023 book releases - and how they're managing them.
Description:
Join our panel of authors, each with Summer 2023 book releases, as they discuss the process of promoting and publicizing a recent work in the current environment, on and offline, from a writer's perspective. Panelists: Cat Rambo (moderator), E.D.E. Bell, Dedren Snead, Gregory A. Wilson. Track: GCWS Career.
Writers discuss their Summer 2023 book releases - and how they're managing them.
Description:
Join our panel of authors, each with Summer 2023 book releases, as they discuss the process of promoting and publicizing a recent work in the current environment, on and offline, from a writer's perspective. S E Lindberg (moderator), Dr. Chesya Burke, Dan Jolley, K.B. Wagers. Track: GCWS Career.
Writers discuss their Summer 2023 book releases - and how they're managing them.
Description:
Join our panel of authors, each with Summer 2023 book releases, as they discuss the process of promoting and publicizing a recent work in the current environment, on and offline, from a writer's perspective. Panelists: S E Lindberg (moderator), Erik Scott de Bie, Erin M. Evans, Howard Andrew Jones, Patrick S. Tomlinson. Track: GCWS Career.