Hosted by our MC – Rick Stemm!!
Day One
Thursday 4th July
8am – 9am
Registration – check in and pick up your Lanyard outside Soundings Theatre
9am – 9.15am
Welcome and Housekeeping – with our MC Rick Stemm!!
9.15am – 10am
KEYNOTE
Nadia Thorne – Black Salt Games
10am – 10.30am : MORNING TEA
10.30am – 11am
Striking a Chord: The Art of Composing Game Theme Tunes
Broghan Blackshaw – PikPok
11am – 11.30am
Floating Rock’s Pitchfest
Stephanie Parker – Floating Rock
11.30am – 12noon
Blending the Threads: Nonlinear Moments in Linear Narratives
Sarah Daymond – PikPok
12noon – 1.30pm : LUNCH
1.30am – 2pm
Why devs should give their Community Manager a knife.
Paige Wilson – Aggro Crab
2pm – 2.15pm
Neurodiversity in the gaming community
Piper Van Rinsveldt – PikPok
2.15pm – 3pm
What You’ve Wanted To Know About Marketing But Were Too Afraid To Ask
Meredith Hall – Summerfall Studios / Paige Wilson – Aggro Crab / Lisa Blakie – Atawhai Interactive
3pm – 3.30pm : AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm – 3.45pm
Pavé: Creating A Board Game, From Idea To Stores
Buddy Frost – Frost Flame Games
3.45pm – 4.15pm
Lack of diversity starts with lack of access
Marcus Powell – Digital Natives Academy
4.15pm – 5pm
Creating Art at the End of the World
Cameron Hopkinson- Accessibility Unlocked
6.30pm – 10pm
Treat ‘n’ Greet
Prefab Hall
14 Jessie Street, Te Aro,
Wellington 6011
Day Two
Friday 5th July
8am – 9am
Registration – check in and pick up your Lanyard outside Soundings Theatre
9am – 9.15am
Welcome and Housekeeping – with our MC Rick Stemm!!
9.15am – 9.35am
Emergency Braking: Making Good Decisions at Hard Moments
Henry Fletham – Deep Field Games
9.35am – 10am
What do Leaderboards cultivate?
Tana Tanoi – Dinosaur Polo Club
10am – 10.30am : MORNING TEA
10.30am – 11am
Sparking Playful Ambition
Duncan Corrigan – Serenade
11am – 11.30am
Designing games starting at Level 1
Patrick Knights + Chelsea Sullivan – Massey University
11.30am – 12noon
UI art style toolkit
Bridget Tompkins – Runaway Play
12noon – 1.30pm : LUNCH
1.30pm – 2pm
More Tools for the Garden Shed? The Psychology in TTRPG’s and Learning
Shaun Garea – GRAIL / Massey University
2pm – 2.30pm
Why Psychologists Should Make Games to Study Human Behaviour
Kongmeng Liew – Digital Culture Research Lab ? University of Canterbury
2.30pm – 3pm
The Weird Ways We Play
Zelle Marcovicci – Tūhura Tech / Massey University
3pm – 3.30pm : AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm – 3.45pm
Your Game Quality Doesn’t Matter (As Much As You Think It Does)
Celia McAlpine – PikPok
3.45pm – 4.15pm
Team Topiary: Shaping your team with different ways of growth
Matthew Heales
4.15pm – 5pm
KEYNOTE
Mystery Box panel discussion
5pm
Closing notes
