2022 Archive – Schedule

Day 1 - April 19 East Coast Game Conference begins
4:00PM TO 7:00PM	Registration
4:00PM TO 7:00PM	Expo Hours
5:00PM TO 6:00PM	Is Graduate School Right for You? Jacy Richardson &Todd Emma Room 301A Emotional Learning: Developing a Peer Support Training Program using 2D, 3D and headset VR Maripat Metcalf Room 302A Stop Whining and Get A Job: How to Land Your First Job in the Game Dev Industry Brad Swearingen Room 302C
6:15PM TO 7:15PM	How to Take and Give Notes Alex Epstein Room 302A Keep it classy?!? or madd skillz?!? - Teaching ttRPG Development Stefan Hall Room 302C

Day 2 - April 20 East Coast Game Conference continues
8:30PM TO 6:30PM	Registration
10:00AM TO 6:00PM	Expo Hours
9:00AM TO 10:00AM	Lessons Learned in VR Training Partnerships East Tennessee Children's Hospital and ETSU Megan Grayson, Stephen Oveton, Grayson Wiles & Todd Emma Room 301A Rapid Iterations or Quick to Market? Can we have the Cake and Eat It Too? Mauricio Hollando Room 301B How to Compete With the Roblox "Metaverse" Garrett Swanson Room 302A
10:15AM TO 11:15AM	Telling Hard Stories in the Age of Sensationalism: Cross-Sector Collaboration is Key to Storytelling Iris Cole Room 301B Designing Token Economies Ethan Levy Room 302A Neurodiversity and Games Aris Bricker Room 302B A Beginners Guide to Photogrammetry and Cross Polarization Amber Johnson Room 302C
11:30AM TO 12:30PM	Realizing in VR Andrew Shaver Room 301B Creating Indie MMOs with Core Troy Maynard Room 302A I Didn't Catch That: Disability Representation Eddy Webb Room 302B
12:30PM TO 2:00PM	Lunch
2:00PM TO 3:00PM	KEYNOTE Never Give Up: Success Could Be Right Around The Corner Josh Fairhurst, CEO Limited Run Games BALLROOM A
3:15PM TO 4:15PM	Making the Most of Mobile: How to Tell Diverse Stories on Tiny Screens Franci Dimitrovska Room 301B PRACTICAL MAGIC - Life of a Gameplay Engineer Max Litinov Room 302A Are You Serious? Better Game Design for Learning! Kenneth Hubbell Room 302B
4:30PM TO 5:30PM	Building a Light Sphere for Production and Research (and one that people can fit inside) Eric Patterson, Jessica Baron & Xiang Li Room 301A Humor–the Secret Ingredient Your Game Can’t Do Without! Suzanne Peterson-Warr Room 302A Beyond Escapism - Positive Games for Positive Mental Health David Klingler Room 302B
5:45PM TO 6:45PM	Session Title TBD Room 301A Level Up Your Art Skills by Leveraging Your Limitations Jesse Henning Room 301B Thinking Outside the "Box" for Games Jacy Richarson Room 302A From Idea to Prototype: A Student Journey Travis Brown & Matt Merino Room 302B

Day 3 - April 21 East Coast Game Conference wraps up
8:30PM TO 5:00PM	Registration
10:00AM TO 5:00PM	Expo Hours
9:00AM TO 10:00AM	Independent Together: an Exploration of Indie Game Development Communities, Collectives, and Bundles Michael Schmitt Room 301B How (and why?) do we evolve our approach to game design away from the typical 'is it fun' paradigm? Alex Loughran Room 302B
10:15AM TO 11:15AM	How to Address Communications Challenges in Small Indie Teams Rachel Presser Room 301B Elements of Style: Deconstructing and Understanding Art Styles in Games Gregory Grimsby Room 302A Getting a Job in Video Game Development...Tips, Tricks & Hints! Paxton Galvenak Career Lounge Room 303
11:30AM TO 12:30PM	KEYNOTE Positioning and Planning a Pitch Steve Reid, Managing Director Red Storm Entertainment BALLROOM A
12:30PM TO 2:00PM	Lunch
2:00PM TO 3:00PM	The Words Are The Same: Writing Games Versus Writing Fiction Richard Dansky Room 301B Tips and tricks for Complex Hard Surface Modeling techniques Saritdikhum Somasa Room 302A Inside Titanic's Boiler Room to Teach STEM Big Ideas for Middle School Level Students. Ted Prawat Room 302B
3:15PM TO 4:15PM	Building a Transmedia Brand from Interactive Experiences Justin Achilli Room 301B Going Open-Source in Production and Education Zachariah Inks Room 302A Content Mileage Jonathan White Room 302B
4:30PM TO 5:30PM	Why Your Single Player Game Needs a Backend Raymond Arifanto Room 302A Preparing a Kickstarter Campaign for your Indie Game Joseph Mora Room 302B