[Livestream] IndieCade Anywhere and Everywhere 2020 Team Sign-Off

Speakers

• Celia Pearce
  

  Celia Pearce

  50: Celia Pearce is an award-winning game designer, artist, curator, author, teacher, researcher, and serial instigator, and the co-founder of IndieCade. She currently holds a position as Associate Professor of Game Design at Northeastern University.

• Chris DeLeon
  

  Chris DeLeon

  Chris DeLeon helps adults around the world learn remote team game development through his service, HomeTeamGameDev. HomeTeam’s approach is fully project-based, with no grades or assessments, instead teaching members 1-on-1 through questions they run into during hands-on development. HomeTeam is the third iteration of Chris’ game development practice communities, the first of which he co-founded at Carnegie Mellon as Game Creation Society, and the second he founded at Georgia Tech as VGDev. Outside of HomeTeam, he’s the chair of IGDA Los Angeles, IndieCade Alumni Lead (formerly one of the speaker organizers), and volunteers with several local high school game development programs. He’s been a speaker at IndieCade Europe, History of Games International Conference, and several times for GDC. Chris lives in Los Angeles, where he takes dozens of pictures a day of his fluffy gray cat, EDI.
  @HomeTeamGameDev
  @HomeTeamGuy is my cat on Instagram

• Drew Davidson
  

  Drew Davidson

  Drew Davidson is a professor, producer and player of interactive media. His background spans academic, industry and professional worlds and he is interested in stories and transformational experiences across texts, comics, games and other media. He explores the art, design and science of making media that matters, working to expand our notions of what media are capable of doing, and what we are capable of doing with media. He is the Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the Founding Editor of ETC Press and its Well Played series and journal.

• Elizabeth Swensen
  

  Elizabeth Swensen

  “Elizabeth Swensen is a game designer, paper-tearer, and Assistant Professor of Art & Design: Games & Playable Media at UCSC. She received her M.F.A in Interactive Media from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in Classics from Willamette University. Her research is in designing narrative for interactive experiences, system design for playful learning, and experimental Tabletop RPG design as a part of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies.

  She has been volunteering with IndieCade since 2012.”

• Erin Reynolds
  

  Erin Reynolds

  “Erin Reynolds is the Founder and Creative Director of Flying Mollusk. An award-winning game designer, her career of 15 years includes having worked at a variety of high-profile companies, such as Disney and Zynga, and having led many projects, including “Trainer” (which won the two top awards for Michelle Obama’s Apps for Healthy Kids competition) and the critically acclaimed biofeedback-enhanced thriller game, “Nevermind.”

  Erin is passionate about the potential games have to empower, educate, and inspire players of all kinds and to make the world a better, more playful place. To this end, as Chief Mollusk of Flying Mollusk, Erin is dedicated to continuing to create edgy games and interactive art that leave a lasting positive impact on the user and world.”

• Jamie Antonisse
  

  Jamie Antonisse

  Throughout his 15 years as a game developer, Jamie Antonisse has sought out new ways of sharing emotionally resonant interactive stories. He has showcased four games at IndieCade (Spectre, Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Cool Points, and Guildlings) and spent two years as the co-chair of Table Games for the festival. This year, Jamie has had the privilege of serving on the Programming Committee and helping to define the structure and format of IndieCade Anywhere and Everywhere.

• Jamie Parreno
  

  Jamie Parreno

  Jamie is an artist/designer working in Los Angeles. She’s an IndieCade organizer and part of the indie dev and digital arts collective Glitch City. She likes to make comics and games and is working on a graphic novel, BEAUTY QUEEN, with writer Jennifer de Guzman.

• Jeremy Gibson Bond
  Jeremy Gibson Bond
• Sam Roberts
  

  Sam Roberts

  “Sam Roberts is the Festival Director of IndieCade. He began creating narrative worlds and playable experiences when he discovered Dungeons and Dragons at the age of 8. Roleplaying games gave me an outlet for my imagination and a playground for social engagement. My drive to work in creative collaboration with artists of all stripes led me to a study of theater and creative direction, while my ongoing need to explore the collision of technology and expression drove me through that winding path to the field of games and play.

  While my portfolio of creative work covers theater, film, video games and board games in roles as a designer, director, adaptor, and more, I am most widely known for my work helping found and direct IndieCade, the ‘Sundance of Games.’

  I currently work at the USC Games, the #1 game design school in the world, where I oversee production, manage curriculum, and teach classes on tabletop roleplaying game design and systems design.”
  twitch.tv/SamAsh1980

• Stephanie Barish
  Stephanie Barish
• Ted DiNola
  Ted DiNola
• Willa Lim
  

  Willa Lim

  Ask me about donuts.