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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

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    Workshops

    Friday, September 7

    10am-7pm

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

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    Creating with NFC

    Physical Worlds & Magical Interactions

    Meeting Room 12pm – 5pm

    Alenn Predko

    Exploring Weird Unity for Artists and Beginners

    DMG Workshop10am – 1pm

    Sagan Yee

    User Interface Design

    Aesthetic Functionality

    Meeting Room 111am – 1pm

    Tabby Rose Nate Davis

    Body Language in Games

    Lessons from Animation and Acting

    Meeting Room 15pm – 7pm

    Leisha-Marie Riddel

    The Collisions of Shadow of the Colossus

    Deconstructing Sorcery

    DMG Workshop1pm – 4pm

    Ahmed Elgoni

    Playstorming

    Prototyping Game Design

    Small Gallery10am – 1pm

    Emily Care Boss Epidiah Ravachol

    Material Mayhem!

    Intermediate Shaders and Materials in Unity and Unreal

    DMG Workshop4pm – 6pm

    Greg Puzniak

    Intro to Tabletop RPGs

    Small Gallery2pm – 6pm

    Shel Kahn

    Conference

    Saturday, September 8

    10am-7pm

    $95 / $35 DMG members

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    You Need the Community

    Creating a Game Design Workshop for Indigenous Youth

    Meagan Byrne Travis Mercredi Gabrielle Hughes Yifat Shaik

    Cross-Pollinated Pixels

    Cultural Exchange Between Games and Experimental Film

    Daniel McIntyre

    Mending Technology

    Reimagining Technology Through Brujeria 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

    Keynote Address

    TBA

    Claudia Cornali-Motta

    Arcade

    Friday, September 7 – Saturday, September 8

    10am-7pm

    Free and open to the public

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

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