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Advanced Iterative Playtesting
Professional developers lead a deep dive into iterative design principles and editing with a focus on tools, processes, and communication across teams.
- Wed 60 tickets
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All Brains Welcome: Making Cons Accessible For Neurodivergent
Public events can be daunting for neurodivergent participants. How can convention and conference organizers better help this community succeed? Autistic designer Pat Mooney shares his thoughts.
- Wed 40 tickets
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A New Adventure For Synagon In TTRPG, Higher Education, & Business Development
A writer of plays, poems, and TTRPGs and a professor/health care provider passionate about role playing games & education teamed up to solve problems in a fun interprofessional educational experience.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Ask The Question - Connect With Your Military-Connected Community!
No matter your role (librarian, educator, game store owner, designer), you interact everyday with those in the military-connected community. Learn about military culture and available resources!
- Wed 30 tickets
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BattleBattle! - How Do You Balance a Massively Complicated Game?
In this hands-on game design workshop, we will be taking on this kind of problem as we collaboratively balance a large-scale character battling game.
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- Sat 40 tickets
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Beginning & Sustaining A Magic: The Gathering Youth Club For Free!
As a non-profit, MagiKids supports youth programming throughout the United States. Learn how to apply and sustain materials to support your program for no cost to your organization.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Bespoke & Beholden: How Custom World-Building Creates Client & Employee Investment
Come learn how a unique setting can reinforce investment from adventurers and storytellers alike! Library programs, school clubs, and game stores can all benefit as we present and then worskshop!
- Wed 30 tickets
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Beyond D&D: Building Indie RPG Programs At The Library
The WWPL has a vibrant adult RPG community, featuring several RPG programs beyond D&D. In this session you will learn to adapt several indie RPGs into robust and creative library programing.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Beyond the Board: Designing Games Beyond Dice & Cardboard
Crafting toyetic games requires thinking beyond the conventional realm of dice & cardboard. Explore the potential of transforming everyday toys into engaging gameplay experiences.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Beyond the Dice: How Games Fostered Connection For A Neurodivergent & Queer Community
Tabletop games build community for queer & neurodivergent folks. A mental health professional shares how games foster connection & safe spaces with practical applications.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Board Game Rapid Prototype Workshop
You CAN make a board game prototype from scratch in less than an hour, for fun or educational purposes.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Boardgames And The Brain!
We will go over Neuropsychology related literature that surrounds tabletop games. Attendees will learn about the impact of board games on cognition and applications to settings across the lifespan.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Board Gaming, Trains & A Free Game! Social Studies Curriculum For Middle & High School
Utilizing the Mensa Award-winning game, The Last Spike, this NCSS-aligned curriculum explores the Transcontinental Railroad's impact. Receive a free curriculum guide, game, and valuable resources!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Brain Games: Dementia & Using Games To Sharpen Your Mind
Learn how games can help older adults ward off memory loss, connect family with loved ones with dementia, and offer activities for caregivers to do with aging adults or those with dementia.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Brotherwise Games -- New Retailer Program!
Join the Brotherwise Games team to learn more about our Featured Retailer program and a brand new direct-to-retailer sales initiative with Gen Con Exclusive news and deals!
- Wed 50 tickets
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Building A Gaming Community
We will discuss how to build a strong games community or how to enhance the one you already have. How to attract new players to your venue, be it a retail location, after school program, or library.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Build Your Own Escape Room
This interactive presentation gives you the tools to build your own escape room for library patrons or students. Let's escape the world of mundane programming together.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Cardboard AI
This presentation will survey the history of these opponents since the 1960’s, and how clever design has enabled increasingly robust AI's that are capable of challenging and surprising human players.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Class Economy Game: Empower Students & Battle BurnOut With This Passive Game
Learn how to run a passive classroom economy game to manage behavior, empower students, and decrease the symptoms of teacher burnout. Q+A and all materials to start playing this fall provided.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Collaborate & Educate: Using Cooperative Board Games In Learning Spaces
Explore how cooperative board games foster teamwork, critical thinking, and engagement in learning spaces. Discover strategies, game recommendations, and practical ways to integrate into education
- Wed 40 tickets
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Combinatorial Game Theory In The Classroom: A Hands-On Approach To Teaching Mathematics
Explore combinatorial game theory as a unique tool for teaching math concepts. Participants will play combinatorial games and gain resources for classroom use.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Converting Ideas & Inspiration Into Playable Mechanics
Explore methods to move quickly & thoughtfully from ideas & inspiration to a playable mechanic. Identify the bldg blocks of your core game loop, define constraints, make a prototype, & find the fun!
- Wed 60 tickets
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Crafting Compelling Games: What Makes Players Stay?
Focusing on player motivations, reward systems, player types, and psychological and emotional drivers, we will explore the key factors driving player engagement.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Creating a Laboratory for Games--Teaching, Learning, And Community
We'll share our process in creating a Game Lab where the "players" form a community to explore all facets of games: playing, teaching, researching, and designing.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Creating An Escape Room With The Use of AI
Learn how to create your own Escape Room in your school, library, or business with the aid of AI using little to no materials other than your own imagination.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Creative Project Constraints For Student Learning Outcomes
We present four ways to constrain student game production projects and how each constraint affects attention, knowledge acquisition, skill development, and concept exploration.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Custom Toys As Summative Assessment
We've been playing around with kit-bashing and collage - it didn't take much to turn it into a summative assessment. We'll walk through applications and then try a shortened version ourselves.
- Wed 30 tickets
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D&D & LARP In Schools - Hot Tips & Tricks For Fostering In Class Collaborative Storytelling
Running a successful D&D/LARP club or camp can be intimating. Luckily, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Let a 12-year club organizer help you out!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Demo Night & Social Mixer
A chance to demo games & meet w/some of your favorite TRD exhibitors and presenters. Part demo, part networking, part social; join us for this culminating TRD event! A great way to end your Trade Day.
- Wed 400 tickets
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Designing Games To Promote Health
How do we design games to promote health? Be a part of the discussion in this audience-engaged seminar investigating the possible uses of games in health promotion and capacity-building.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Developing RPGs With Renegade Games
Join developer Carlos Cabrera as he goes over the design and development process for the Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game with Renegade Game Studios.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Documentation And Hard Conversations
Methods to simplify company documentation and how to be prepared for when things go wrong and make sure they don't go worse.
- Wed 20 tickets
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Does Knowing The Math Help, Really?
We will discuss the results of a study which looked at whether having college students analyze games in a Math class actually helped them perform better in those games.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Dune The Boardgame - Gamifying General Education Humanities
Learn how and why to gamify your GE courses and see/participate in an example using Dune the Boardgame.
- Wed 24 tickets
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Dungeons & Dragons & Democracy: How TTRPGS Can Build Stronger Civic Communities
Democracy needs help. Playing RPGs can help citizens form the skills and collaborative habits that communities need to thrive. Learn how they can form engaged citizens. Educators of all ages welcome.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Educational Games & Crafting Curriculum
Using the curriculum guide created for the game, Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire, Dr. Jason Cox will illustrate a process for adapting games into a curriculum.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Emergence: A Theoretical & Practical Approach To Games-Based Transformation
Explore how tabletop roleplaying games foster growth through storytelling and co-creation. Gain tools to design transformative games for education, coaching, and creativity, driving real-world change.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Engaging Research - Using RPGs to Guide Research Driven Creative Writing
Research with RPGs? How can that be possible? In this session we will learn how to engage students in interest driven research, applying the methods needed for long term skills.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Epic Success Or Critical Fail: Which Is Your Financial Plan?
These are more advanced financial topics, for those with more financial savvy. Come pick the brain and get some financial education!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Escaping From Bad Leadership: An Escape Room Experience
Whether you're an educator or a business professional (new or old), learn the fundamentals of leadership through completing an escape room.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Evolution Of The Substance Use Recovery Revolution From The Steampunk Era To Today
Explore the recovery movement’s evolution from Victorian temperance to modern neuroscience, highlighting innovations, peer support, and changing views on addiction and mental health.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Feywild Invasion Biology: Scientific Outreach Activities Using Cosplay & Role Play
A professor shares his experience utilizing cosplay and TTRPG themes to create inclusive and effective outreach events that teach non-scientists biological concepts through role play activities.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Finance 101
Numbers matter - the longest standing seminar from Witten Financial. We talk you through the basics of financial statements to help you manage your business.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Finding The Perfect Real Estate Space For Your Gaming Store
Unlock the secrets to picking the perfect gaming store spot! Learn what makes a location thrive and how to find your dream storefront. Level up your business strategy!
- Wed 30 tickets
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Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire
An introduction to the cooperative keepsake game Five Hundred Year Old Vampire (FYOV) and its curriculum guide for use in high schools and universities.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Friday Assignment Session - Theme: Rapid Prototyping & Testing
Move from concept to cardboard as you design, prototype, & test your game ideas. A hands-on day focusing on iteration, learning from playtests, & embracing failure as part of the design process.
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- Fri 100 tickets
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Friday Office Hours - Theme: Rapid Prototyping & Testing
Have questions about your homework/quests? Drop in during Office Hours for one-on-one guidance, feedback, or just to bounce ideas around.
- Wed 0 tickets
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- Fri 100 tickets
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From Assessment To Discharge: Implementing Games Throughout All Steps Of The Therapeutic Process
Learn strategies for implementing games in all steps of the therapeutic process for children, adolescents, adults, and families. Discuss what can be gained from implementing games in the therapy room
- Wed 50 tickets
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From Game Idea to Prototype
In this hands-on workshop for beginner designers, learn from how to create a game prototype from provided materials.
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- Fri 50 tickets
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From One-Shot To Campaign: A GM's Guide To Growing A Gaming Club
We will look at how to start a gaming club and will look at strategies for growing the gaming club. It will look at different options of RPG, board games, and integrating art into the group.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Game Of Games 2025 Edition
Common business & educator situations and the game industry collide in this Clue-meets-Family-Feud style seminar. Case studies, in-class analysis, & expert advice!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Games That Boost Cognitive Skills & How To Implement Them In The Classroom
Learn how cognitive skills function in the brain & the role they play in learning. Well also learn how games can be modified to implement in group settings along with the skills each game can target.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Game Theory For Gamers: Decisions, Strategies, & Payoffs
This session will provide an introduction to formal Game Theoretics as used in the social sciences and explore how choices impact the player experience.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Game Theory In The Classroom Or Boardroom
Using classic Game Theory models on conflict, trust, ethics, and decision-making, attendees will learn via experiential activities and role-play a series of engaging classroom experiences.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Gamification For Classroom Engagement
Unleash the power of play to unlock student motivation & transform learning with gamification strategies. Workshop your way to more effective classroom activities.Includes free e-book
- Wed 30 tickets
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Gamification & UDL: A Practical Application
Learn ways to implement Universal Design Learning (UDL), Gamification, and other non-traditional approaches in education. We explore interactive course design, alternative grading, and game examples.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Gamifying ENG 101: TTRPGsIn College & Dual Credit Education
Transform learning into an epic quest! Join me as I share how I turned an English 101 course into a mini-RPG, complete with classes, factions, quests, and Merlin, an AI guide. Adventure awaits!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Gamifying The Classroom
Make learning an epic quest! Explore how game-inspired strategies can boost engagement, motivation, and focus—no dice rolls or fancy gear required.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Get In The Game!
Learn how to build engaging all-ages programming for your library. Gain practical advice on how to choose the best games for your collection and how to circulate games both in-house and with patrons.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Get Materials To Start & Grow Your School/Library TTRPG Program
Books, Dice, and more are available at no cost to public schools and libraries through our program. Let's Quest is a 501c3 dedicated to supporting public school and library TTRPG programs.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Get The MOST Out Of Your Playtests
Whether you are a new designer or an experienced one, we will focus on key behaviors and actions to ensure you get the most out of your playtests.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 40 tickets
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Goal-Driven Development
Good iterative development requires remaining both focused & agile. We will discuss & workshop a framework for creating effective goals that act less like an end point & more like guiding pillars.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Homeostasis: The Game
In this play test you get to be the endocrine system releasing hormones to keep Bill, a guy who won’t make it easy, alive. This game teaches about the role of the endocrine system in homeostasis.
- Wed 24 tickets
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How Do You Want To Synergize This: TTRPGs & AAC
Join SLPs exploring AAC & TTRPGs to support Autistic students with complex needs. Learn hands-on tools to create inclusive, engaging spaces where all voices can explore, grow, and thrive!
- Wed 40 tickets
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Failure
Failure sucks. We'll discuss how to interact with failure positively through real world examples in gaming. We’ll also discuss the psychology of why we fear failure, how to fail forward, and more.
- Wed 50 tickets
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How To Build Worlds For Games: Some Considerations & Pitfalls
We'll explore how to build game worlds, looking at examples from both tabletop and video gaming.
- Wed 60 tickets
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How To Develop For IP & Theme
Learn about professional game development w/a focus on how to highlight the themes of an IP. Learn a better understanding of development; feel empowered to use that knowledge in your work & pitches.
- Wed 60 tickets
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How to Profit with Keymaster Games
Retailers learn about our upcoming games and how you can take advantage of our offers and programs in your hobby store.
- Wed 80 tickets
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ICv2 Hobby Games Market White Paper
ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp will present the annual ICv2 Hobby Games Market White Paper, with multi-year sales trends across hobby games categories and updates on the 2025 market to date.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Intro to Shipping and Distribution in Asia
Learn about fulfilment and distribution through Asia, and RoW, with the team from VFI Asia. Open format for Q&A after an introduction of general Do's and Don'ts.
- Wed 30 tickets
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I Think, Therefore I Game: Games and Pedagogy in Higher Education
We will share experiences of how we have utilized games in our courses to help make connections with students, as well as to build stronger communities between students, faculty, and staff.
- Wed 35 tickets
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Jubensha: Murder Mystery For Edu-tainment
Can crime—something inherently wrong—be used to teach what’s right? Join us to explore how Jubensha, the popular murder mystery roleplaying game, can be a powerful tool for edutainment.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Junked Journeys: Legacy Board Games As A Genre With A Beginning And (Sometimes) No End
Legacy board games are an exciting genre, but what happens when game groups can't finish these permanently altered games? What hindrances do groups face in completing games? Our study has the answers!
- Wed 50 tickets
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Know Your Audience : Lessons Learned
As a game designer, knowing your audience includes the player, publisher, retailer, & buyer. Learn the needs of each of these audiences to turn your game from prototype to marketable product.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Learning On The Winning Team!
An interactive session highlighting using the commercially available board game, “Green Team Wins,” in education.
- Wed 50 tickets
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LEGO Serious Play Methodology
LSP methodology offers a means for a group to share ideas, assumptions and understandings; to engage in rich dialogue and discussion; and to work out meaningful solutions to real problems.
- Wed 25 tickets
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Les Gobelins Attaquent! :TTRPGs In The CI World Language Classroom: A Magical Fit!
A 20-year veteran teacher will show you how implementing games like D&D provide compelling contextual input for critical gains in student engagement, interaction, enjoyment, and ultimately, learning.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Lessons Learned From Using Game Design To Teach A College Subject
The use of game design to teach a college subject was attempted. Students were required to develop an educational game to inform players of their flood risk. Come see the results.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Let’s Play: Games That Improve Communication & Empathetic Understanding
Learn and play games that I’ve created and commercial games that I’ve adapted that build skills in communication, interpersonal dynamics, and understanding each other’s unique POV.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Leveling Up Healthcare Education: Gaming Elements For Simulation Classes
Explore how TTRPG elements were integrated into a community college nursing sim class. Presentation and interactive tutorial on how this approach can translate to other healthcare disciplines.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Leveling Up Learning: Exchanging Best Practices For Games In Education & Workforce Training
Join us as we lead an interactive session to share research & explore using games (e.g., TTRPGs, escape rooms) in higher education & professional development.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Loss Aversion & Player Psychology
We’ll examine board games and other relevant game-like experiences to explore framing, regret, competence, and other effects, and their relation to players' relationship with the game experience.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Make It, Make Sense - Intutive Design
What visual information & prior knowledge of expected meaning in games can you tap into to make your game intuitive? In this hands-on workshop create a game that can be played without written rules.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Mapping Out The Future With Loke Battle Mats
An exclusive first hands-on run through of Loke Battle Mats' newest releases!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Marketing On A Shoestring Budget
Big impact, small budget! Use local event calendars, press releases, inique events, and smart social media strategies to make your marketing budget stretch further.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Mechanisms Make It Go: Balancing Complex Causality With Playability
Explore the relationships between game mechanisms, verisimilitude, and playability. We will examine how slight tweaks to your primary mechanism can change the operation of your game.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Medicine Check Proficiency: Adapting Gaming Mechanics To Scenario Based Evaluations
A case study on adapting TTRPG gaming mechanics to technical skills evaluations, focusing on shifting patient care simulations away from an algorithm-focused process.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Mental Roadblocks: How Your Brain Can Keep You from Making Wise Financial Decisions
We'll explore ways that retailers can overcome Five Roadblocks in their businesses: Anchoring, Inertia, Present Bias, Loss Aversion, and Blind Spots to help them make more money, and keep more money!
- Wed 50 tickets
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My Experience Publishing Games As An Independent Designer
An independent game designer is responsible for design, development, & management of all design & business aspects - conception to completion. Learn what to look out for from someone who has lived it.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Nature Systems Game Design
Elizabeth Hargrave relates how she goes about translating cool things in nature into the form of a game - then practice brainstorming your own ideas for nature-based games from prompts she provides.
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- Sat 30 tickets
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Networking: Using Outside Professionals To Expand Your Reach
Learn how to connect your clients to professional services they may need, build a real feeling of community, and market your store through joint sponsored events.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Periodic: A Game Of The Elements - Adapted For Use In The High School Classroom
We created and tested a variation of Periodic that can be used during a 45 minute class to teach periodic trends and the law of conservation of energy.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Photography For Promotion: Capturing The Best Shots For Social Media, Press, & Products
Learn easy, budget-friendly photography tips for stores, libraries, and event hosts. Improve your social media, press, and product photos without expensive equipment.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Play Fair - Creating Equitable Experiences
Over 25% of the US population has some kind of disability, so why aren’t we providing everyone a good experience? Learn simple techniques to make your next game, play-room or con accessible for all!
- Wed 50 tickets
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Playing With Our Ancestors: Ancient Games For Modern Learners
We will play and learn how to embed the games of Awale/Mancala, 12 Man Morris, and Tablut into lessons in mathematics, history, and cross-cultural communication to enhance student engagement.
- Wed 18 tickets
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Practical UI/UX For Game Design
A user interface can make or break a game, enabling a great game to shine or causing it to crash & burn. Learn how to spend your time & make good UI/UX choices across the game design lifecycle.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Practice, Practice, Practice (Iteration In Game Design)
Discussion on techniques for rapid iteration in game design, and the importance of time in the lab.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 60 tickets
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Protect Your Business From Fraud
Protect your business from fraud with resources to improve security, spot fraud and online scams, and avoid cybercrime. Join Business Banking experts from Regions Bank to find out how.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Quest For The Third Space: Using Tabletop To Forge Identity & Boost Emotional Wellness
We'll explore how tabletop games create third spaces for self-exploration and community.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Questing For Knowledge: Aligning TTRPG Information-Seeking Behaviors & Academic Research Skills
I map the Association of College & Research Libraries' Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education to information-seeking mechanics used in TTRPGs--it goes way beyond investigation checks!
- Wed 30 tickets
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Return To RPG Summer Camp!!
Two educators share their blueprint for a successful RPG student summer camp, including the addition of a professional development component for teachers.
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Role Playing Games As Community Building For Neurodiverse Audience
Presentation and discussion of means, methods, and results of setting up a self-sustaining role-playing group (Dungeons & Dragons) within the Lynch Disability Resource Center at Loras College.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Roll For Adventure: Using Role-Playing Games To Increase Engagement
Loosely inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, this 10-minute active-learning exercise is the perfect alternative to a traditional library tour or show-and-tell table at a community outreach event.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Roll Persuasion With Advantage On Your Workplace Initiatives
Become champions of role-playing and game-based learning in your organization by running low-risk pilots, building influence, and providing strategic examples that prove RPGs can equal ROI.
- Wed 50 tickets
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RPGs Go To College: Teaching The University's First Class in Role-playing Games
Innovative pedagogy, creativity, mini painting, dungeon crawling, world-building, storytelling, teamwork, hands-on learning & fun! Lessons learned from teaching a University’s first course in RPGs!
- Wed 40 tickets
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Running Inclusive & Safe TTRPGs For Young Players
Real-world advice to create an inclusive and safe gaming space where shy, marginalized kids feel comfortable putting themselves out there and create a world where they see themselves represented.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Running Magic: The Gathering Club - Increasing Student & LGS Involvement
Learn how to leveraged the "cool" teachers and LGS to increase student involvement, and how to used the same branding that Varsity Sports uses to celebrate MTG kids.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Saturday Assignment Session - Theme: The Game Industry Ecosystem
Zoom out to examine the broader landscape from indie publishing & crowdfunding to manufacturing, marketing, & community mgmt. Today’s quests will send you out to look at everything around the games.
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- Sat 100 tickets
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Saturday Office Hours - Theme: The Game Industry Ecosystem
Have questions about your homework/quests? Drop in during Office Hours for one-on-one guidance, feedback, or just to bounce ideas around.
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- Sat 100 tickets
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Shaping The Future Of Tabletop Game Book Publishing: Trends & Opportunities
Join us for a discussion exploring the current landscape of publishing in tabletop game design and development. We will delve into the latest trends, key players, and emerging needs in the market.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Smarty Pawns: Level Up Your Lesson Plans
Dive into game design for education! This workshop is for teachers and educators eager to create fun, engaging games for their classrooms. Learn, play, and innovate in a hands-on session.
- Wed 25 tickets
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Social Media Marketing And You
Social media marketing can be a powerful tool for promoting your store/events. It’s a great way to reach a large audience quickly & can help you engage with potential customers in a meaningful way.
- Wed 50 tickets
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So You Want To Build A Game: Getting Started With Rapid Prototyping
You are a game designer, and in this session, we will prove it to you by showing you how to prototype some of those ideas you have floating around in your bag of holding.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Story & Strategy: A Library Con
Use storytelling, gaming and creating to engage new library patrons while highlighting services, programs and collections.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Sunday Office Hours - Theme: Final Submissions & Reflection
This is your last chance to polish your work and turn in your final assignments. You’ll have time to reflect on your creative process, share insights with peers, and present your projects.
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- Sun 120 tickets
Table Top Programming For All Ages In Libraries
Explore the importance of gaming in public libraries and how to run successful table top programs for all ages with Ryan LaFerney, a public services librarian from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Wed 20 tickets
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Tabletop RPG Theory For Its Own Sake
An accessible overview of the academic study of tabletop RPGs and its connection to game design, fan discourse, and play itself. For researchers, educators, students, aca-fans, and fan-scholars.
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Tangents Of Play: Teaching & Learning Through Misdirection
Case studies of games-based learning in my university literature courses. The shared purpose of goals, rules, and attitudes in both study and play, and how unpredictable divergences lead to learning.
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Teaching Analog Game Design
As kids we created games: roleplaying in the backyard, to Monopoly and Uno house rules. Now, we still play and love discovering new game designs. Inspire the next generation to craft their own games
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Teaching Creative Writing With The Carved From Brindlewood Game System
Explore how the mechanics of the Carved from Brindlewood system, a narrative-driven tabletop RPG, enhance creative writing practices.
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Teaching Critical Thinking & Analysis Through Board Game Design
Discover how board game design can teach critical thinking and analysis. Learn how this adaptable concept can engage students in classrooms, corporate training, libraries, and more.
- Wed 40 tickets
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Teaching With Games That Challenge Gaming Norms
Many games do not tell an accurate story. Particularly those focused on history or colonialism. Learn how to use games and game design principles to explore and challenge these norms.
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The Accidental Gamer
Training first responders uses many gaming mechanics, from recall to role play. Learn how to incorporate some of the same processes into your education and training environment.
- Wed 40 tickets
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The Aesthetics Of Chance (Why Games Have Randomness, Whether You Like It Or Not)
Discuss the basics of probability, psychology, and the factors that make chaos a crucial element of games. Learn how to use randomness in your design, how not to do it, and the reasons why.
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- Fri 60 tickets
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The British Are Coming: Using TTRPGs To Teach History
How can educators bridge the game table and the classroom? Join a panel of designers and educators in discussion on TTRPGs and reflecting local history in gameplay.
- Wed 30 tickets
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The Interplay Of Mechanics & Narrative In Games
When designing a game, should you start with the mechanics or the story? Why not both? Come learn how narrative and mechanics can blend together to form a whole greater than the parts.
- Wed 60 tickets
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The Quest Begins: Engaging Community Partners To Reimagine Free RPG Day
Join staff from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library as they reveal how they planned and executed a Free RPG Day festival, leveraging community partnerships to elevate the event to the next level!
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Therapeutic Gaming In A College Setting
Learn about starting, running, and the outcomes of a therapeutic gaming group in a community college setting.
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The Rulebook Isn't Broken: Adaptive Strategies For Neurodiverse Gamers
Don't let the rules make or break a game for you. Learn how simple adjustments can open up a world of new games for neurodiverse gamers.
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The Tomb Of Annihilation: Programming Dungeons & Dragons For Tweens
D&D is in high demand at libraries. Tweens have a desire to play, but often lack the opportunity to do so. I'll share tips and strategies for converting D&D into a digestible format for kids aged 8-12
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Thinking Of Your Game As A Product
How do you take your game from prototype to product? We’ll get you thinking about what goes into making a game retail ready, from cost considerations to box design and consumer appeal.
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Thursday Assignment Session - Theme: Game Design Foundations
Kick off with an immersive dive into the fundamentals of game design. Explore core mechanics, player psychology, theme development, & what makes a game meaningful. Today sets the stage.
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Thursday Office Hours - Theme: Game Design Foundations
Have questions about your homework/quests? Drop in during Office Hours for one-on-one guidance, feedback, or just to bounce ideas around.
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- Thurs 100 tickets
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Tools To Resolve Real Live Conflicts At The Game Table
A discussion on how RL conflicts (political, racial, sexism, and others) may infiltrate your gaming group and how you can work through them. Updated for 2025.
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Traditional & Abstract Game Design (Adding Is Easy, Subtracting Is Hard)
Explanations about the process for creating new games in the traditional style, using Tak and other examples from his catalog. Learn how game designers get maximum value from the simplest rules.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Trouble in Dodge City: How Do You Design Meaningful Choices?
Get your hands dirty by fixing a "broken" game. Through changing rules, iterating, & playtesting, learn what makes game choices fun while we practice core design skills useful for any game project.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Upcoming RPG, Boardgame + Hobby Product Demonstrations
Retailers come by for an exclusive preview of our latest releases, get some free samples, and speak with the team!
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Using D&D in Corporate Team Training: A Myers-Briggs Case Study
This seminar shows how D&D can be used in conjunction with Myers-Briggs personality theory to improve team performance in the workplace.
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Using Escape Boxes To Gamify Learning & Review In The Classroom
Escape boxes are an engaging and exciting way to review & introduce concepts & content while working on cooperation, problem solving, & communication skills. Try out the experience or yourself.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Using Games To Teach
By incorporating strategy, teamwork, and critical thinking, board games provide an interactive and fun way to enhance learning outcomes and foster collaboration in the classroom.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Using Modern Board Games To Teach In A Special Education
Many board games have a correlation to everyday tasks such as money, alphabetical order, social skills, and problem solving. Using board games has shown improved participation and engagement.
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Using Simulations In the Classroom, National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Panel
Simulations feed an experiential learning process, helping students absorb material. Foundational simulation concepts, how to run in a classroom. Panel by NSDM staff moderated by Dr. Craig Greathouse
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Ways To Save In Shipping & Logistics
We will help retailers of all sizes, including LGS, Publishers, and Game Companies find ways to save on one of the more expensive processes in our industry!
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What Teachers Want From the Games They Play In Class
Two Middle School Teachers (with Elementary and High School Experience) will be talking about characteristics of effective classroom games, and what admin and teachers want from their games.
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When Therapists & Game Masters Join Forces: Gaming In Adult Group Therapy
Explore how therapists and game masters can collaborate to enhance adult group therapy using tabletop RPGs.
- Wed 30 tickets
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Why Kids Need Superheros (2025 edition)
We will use superheroes like Batman to examine topics in clinical and developmental psychology, examining pathologies that can affect students and families.
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Wingspan: The Classroom Adaptation
Learn a classroom-tested variation of Wingspan w/modified rules & some added environmental cards to teach ecosystems. We’ll explain how, play the variation, & discuss assessment & extension activities
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Working With Community Partners To Bring Adventure To The Library
Learn how our library works closely with community partners, including our Friendly Local Game Store, to bring fun adventures to our patrons.
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Writing, Running, & Publishing Table Top RPGs For Classrooms
Create, write, pitch to publish, and/or run role playing games for classrooms. Incorporate academic pedagogy and role playing in dynamic, student-focused, interactive and collaborative modules.
- Wed 50 tickets
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Yes We Con!
Learn how to organize your own "con" and introduce cosplay, games, comics, vendors, and more to your library users!
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Your Turn To Roll (Playing TTRPG Adventure with Educators & Professionals)
Studies show that collaborative storytelling fosters community and understanding amongst diverse learners. Learn first hand through playing Dungeons & Dragons as a student would in a TTRPG club.
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You Too Can Miniature Paint
Join us for a lesson in miniature painting and how to host your own painting lesson and/or event for your class, store, or library.
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