PrezCon, Charlottesville VA 2014

Strategic Wargame Design slides (Powerpoint).  128K audio MP3.  86MB, hour and a half.  The comments from the audience are sometimes difficult to hear.  I've cut out the least audible. 

GenCon 2013, Indianapolis, IN August 2013

These are slides for my seminars at GenCon this August.  They are made to provide notes for listeners, or for those who cannot attend.  They will not be shown at the convention.  Consequently they are very wordy, but that's what you have to do.  Each is followed by a recording of the seminar.

Business of Game Design: Getting the Attention of Publishers.  Attention MP3 file.

Business of Game Design: Protecting your Intellectual Property.  IP MP3 file.

Business of Game Design: Funding and Self-publishing.  Publishing MP3 file.

Audio Of course you can design a game, but can you design a good one?  (Earlier versions of slides are below.)

World Boardgaming Championships, early August 2013, Lancaster, PA

This mp3 file is 111 MB, nearly two hours.  Much of the talk is about wargame design and about protecting intellectual property.  It begins after some comments in the audience about college, hence my reference to college.

World Boardgaming Championships, early August 2012, Lancaster, PA

This file is a 106MB mp3, nearly two hours long.  There are long silences when someone in the audience is speaking.

East Coast Game Conference, 25-26 April 2012 (Raleigh, NC)

Version of the slides, revised after the talk.  

A one hour audio recording (mp3, 57MB) is here.  It was recorded on a Sansa e250 mp3 player/recorder sitting in my shirt pocket as I talked, so it's not professional quality, but it is understandable despite the occasional blip.  My prepared talk ended at 47 minutes, the remainder is questions and comments and you'll rarely hear the questioner, who is far from the recorder.  I wasn't very good about repeating the question, unfortunately.

Origins Game Fair 2011 (Columbus OH)

Powerpoint slides:

The business of game design

The slides for the next two are somewhat disorganized, as I separated one talk into two.  If/when I revise them I'll take out this statement:

Starting a game design

Completing a game design

Of course you can design a game, but can you design a good one?

MP3s.   These are quite large MP3s (high quality from WAV files), upwards of 50MB each.  Each of these is less than an hour (except perhaps the last).  You probably won't be able to hear remarks of the presenter (in the fourth one) or questions asked by the audience in the audio below; generally I've stopped the recording at the point of audience questions.

Business

Starting  (This one starts a minute or two after I began the talk.  I've left some question-answers at the end.)

Completing

Of course you can design... (I didn't record this at Origins, this is the same file as linked from Birmingham below.)

UK Game Expo 2011 (Birmingham, UK)

Of course you can design a game, but can you design a good one? (Powerpoint slides)

MP3 of the talk.  You probably won't be able to hear remarks of the presenter or questions asked by the audience in the audio below.

Triangle Game Conference, 2010 (Raleigh)

What video game designers can learn from 50 years of tabletop games.  Powerpoint slides.  Audio MP3. 

North Carolina Computer Instructor's Association March 2010 (Raleigh)