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LET THE GAMES BEGIN: A 101 WORKSHOP FOR MAKING SOCIAL ISSUE GAMES

Wednesday, May 27 - Agenda

8:00am Breakfast

8:30am Opening Remarks – Suzanne Seggerman, President and Co-Founder, Games for Change

8:35am Welcome — Allyson Peerman, VP of Public Affairs and President of the AMD Foundation

8:45am Publishing Paradigm — Alan Gershenfeld, Managing Partner E-Line Ventures, G4C Board Chair

9:45am Fundraising - Michael Levine, Executive Director Joan Ganz Cooney Center

10:15am Break

10:30am Concept: Grow-a-Game Workshop — Mary Flanagan, Director, Tilfactor Lab

11:15am Evaluation – Barry Joseph, Director Online Leadership Program, Global Kids

11:45am Q&A

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Design - Eric Zimmerman, author and award-winning game designer

1:45pm Production - Colleen Macklin, Director of G4C-Parsons PETLab & Brenda Brathwaite, Game Designer and Professor, Savannah College of Art & Design

2:15pm Press - Heather Chaplin, Journalist and Author

2:30pm Visibility - Jason Rzepka, VP of Public Affairs, MTV

2:45pm Distribution - Ian Bogost, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Persuasive Games

3:00pm Q&A

3:30pm Break

4:00pm Brainstorming

5:00pm Pitches

6:00pm Reception

Overview

Back by poplar demand, we are reprising last year’s ultra-successful 101 Workshop for those new to the field. Generously funded last year by the MacArthur Foundation’s DML Competition (one of 17 winners out of 1000+ applications), this event garnered the highest feedback from our community with 96% of participants giving it a 4 “Very Good” or 5 “Outstanding”.

Based on feedback we received over the past few years, we created this one-of-a-kind workshop for non-profits new to the field of social issue games at the start of the 2008 G4C Festival. This event is a soup-to-nuts tutorial on the fundamentals of social issue games. The workshop will feature leading experts on essential topics such as game design, fundraising, evaluation, youth participation, distribution, and press strategies, and will be extended for the rest of the year through an online community dedicated to learning about social issue games.

Please note: This will be open to ANY and ALL interested parties this year, not just non-profits, and will require a registration fee separate from or in combination with the core festival registration.

Let the Games Begin: 101 Workshop is made possible by generous support of the AMD foundation.