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    • For everyone who loves & makes games

    A conference celebrating Toronto’s uniquely diverse and collaborative games community!

    Two days filled with games, workshops and amazing talks from game designers, developers, writers, producers and artists carving a path for themselves and a community.

    September 7-8, 2018 • Toronto Media Arts Centre • 32 Lisgar Street

    🎉 Opening party September 7, 8 p.m. (free!)

    Workshops

    Friday, September 7 – Sunday, September 9

    $65 each / $35 with conference pass / $25 DMG members

    Creating with NFC

    Physical Worlds & Magical Interactions

    Meeting Room 1Sunday, September 9 • 1:00pm – 4:00pm

    Alenn Predko

    User Interface Design

    Aesthetic Functionality

    DMG WorkshopSunday, September 9 • 1:00pm – 4:00pm

    Tabby Rose Nate Davis

    Intro to Tabletop RPGs

    Gamma SpaceSaturday, September 8 • 5:30pm – 9:30pm

    Shel Kahn

    Building a Mystery

    Tiny 2D Point and Click Adventures in Unity

    Meeting Room 1Saturday, September 8 • 5:30pm – 7:30pm

    Gillian Blekkenhorst

    Playstorming

    Prototyping Game Design

    DMG WorkshopSaturday, September 8 • 5:30pm – 8:30pm

    Emily Care Boss Epidiah Ravachol

    Exploring Weird Unity for Artists and Beginners

    DMG WorkshopFriday, September 7 • 10:00am – 1:00pm

    Sagan Yee

    Material Mayhem!

    Intermediate Shaders and Materials in Unity and Unreal

    DMG WorkshopFriday, September 7 • 4:00pm – 6:00pm

    Greg Puzniak

    Body Language in Games

    Lessons from Animation and Acting

    Meeting Room 1Friday, September 7 • 5:00pm – 7:00pm

    Leisha-Marie Riddel

    Conference

    Saturday, September 8

    10am-7pm

    $95 / $35 DMG members

    You Need the Community

    Creating a Game Design Workshop for Indigenous Youth

    Meagan Byrne

    Cross-Pollinated Pixels

    Cultural Exchange Between Games and Experimental Film

    Daniel McIntyre

    Mending Technology

    Reimagining Technology Through Brujería and Ancestral Teachings

    Gabriela Aveiro-Ojeda

    This Team Sucks

    The Inevitable Failure State of Toxic Masculinity

    Nicolas Barrière-Kucharski

    Collaboration & Communication

    It's Cool!

    Priscilla Snow

    Doubleclassing in Zines and Tabletop RPGs

    Shel Kahn

    Building Ethical Tech

    Why empathy isn't enough

    Claudia Cornali-Motta

    Arcade

    Friday, September 7 – Saturday, September 8

    10am-7pm

    Free and open to the public

    1. Project JVR Mermaid Heavy Industries
    2. Welcome to New Lux Plaza Sagan Yee
    3. floWell Karlo Feliciano
    4. □■□■□ The Solitary Confinement of an Original Musical Genius □■□■□■□ Xavier Ekkel
    5. Sokodice Lee Tran
    6. Domovoy Level Playing Feels
    7. Without A Roof Karen Vanderborght
    8. Sync Eleanor Chan
    9. Meateor! Max Lander
    10. Fortune Tasker Alenn Predko Nadine Lessio
    11. Dating Pool: A card game about, well... dating! Joel Burgess Julieta Colás
    12. Boyfriend Dungeon Kitfox Games
    13. Arithmagic Shahrin Khan
    14. Memory Blocks Ghoulnoise
    15. Quench Axon Interactive
    16. The Unfathomable Anthology Unfathomable Siblinghood
    17. Sol Hemochroma Aether Interactive
    18. A Summer with the Shiba Inu Quill Studios

    Venue

    The Toronto Media Arts Centre is a 30,000 square foot centre for film, video, games, and community in the heart of West Queen West – home to arts nonprofits including Dames Making Games!

    🗺 32 Lisgar Street

    ♿️ Barrier-free, accessible space

    🚗 Parking in the building

    🚃 Queen St West @ Abell St

    ⤴️ Directions and more info

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