Little Big Planet: Navigating the Social Media Maze
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A look at how social media is reshaping dialogue within the gaming community. Topics include: "Avoid Getting Buried by Your Twitter Feed" and "Facebook: Mostly Useless, or Completely Useless"?
Magenta the Witchgirl is a cute all ages webcomic about a Witch who wants to be a superhero. Learn about it's creation by the creator. Also, hear about the perils of running a once a week webcomic.
Making History: Alternate Timelines, Secret Yesterdays, and Your Game
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Join the Illuminerdy's chief (fake historian Kennon Bauman & DinoPirates of Ninja Island's Corey Reid) to explore the best ways to bring history -- real, secret, or alternate -- to your game or story.
Award-winning game designer and author (and 11-time Gen Con guest of honor) Matt Forbeck released a trilogy of thriller novels set at Gen Con. Come meet Matt and learn who lives and who dies.
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Award-winning game designer and author (and 11-time Gen Con guest of honor) Matt Forbeck released a trilogy of thriller novels set at Gen Con. Come meet Matt and learn who lives and who dies. He will discuss the books, read from the stories, and then take questions from the audience. From the first book's back cover: WELCOME TO THE BIG SHOW! Once a year, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world descend upon Indianapolis for Gen Con — the Best Four Days in Gaming — to play games, see friends, and have fun. Mostly the competition is friendly. Sometimes it is not. When a world-famous game designer turns up murdered at the convention, Liam Parker — the young game designer who stumbles across the body — makes it his quest to figure out who killed the man, and why. In the end, Liam must figure out the rules of this most dangerous game fast — or risk losing his life.
Fantasy novels are commonly set in medieval Europe, except for the food which is usually wrong. Learn how medieval cuisine worked as a system, and how to create believable fictional foodways.
Meet Author Guests of Honor Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon. Includes a reading followed by a short Q&A session. Questions are collected at the start of the panel, so arrive early!