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You're a gamer. You have a LOT of cool ideas. Now what? How does one take their intellectual property from concept to prototype, prototype to manufacture & manufacture to distribution?
Discuss intellectual property law with legal & business professionals working in the game industry. Panelists include James Daily, attorney & author of the Law & the Multiverse blog.
Boardgame Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering
Summary:
Review of the concepts (& some math) required to build your own recommender system from other user boardgame ratings.
Description:
With the growth in the boardgame industry, more games are being released year after year making it difficult to evaluate all of them. However, with the growth the of the industry, there are also more boardgamers with more and more posting their ratings on line meaning that there is a wealth of information accessible to us. This seminar will review an analytic to generate recommendations for users based upon games they have already rated. Seminar is intended for general audience, but math concepts are included where necessary for accurate understanding of the algorithm. Analysis uses Apache Spark.
It's been 18 years since Matt Forbeck's dystopian supers Brave New World RPG debuted at Gen Con, & he has a second edition on Kickstarter! Come see what Matt has in store for the new version!
Are you a freelance artist, author, editor, or game developer looking for work? Educate yourself on the dos & don'ts, of breaking into the game industry!
Join us for a conversation celebrating the rise of diversity in gaming & discussion about bringing more inclusion & diversity into gaming culture through game design, layout, art, & entertainment.
When the detectives write their own way through the story, it gets tricky. How do you design a "stick-proof" mystery game? Discover the secret tricks to working mystery into your games of all types.