OGDE 2015: Full Schedule

12:15pm EST

Power Up Your Start Up

Are you interested and starting your own studio? Do you and your friends already have a studio formed but want to know how to make it official? Than come chat with our panel of business experts and startup owners who can teach you the skills to Power Up Your Start Up!

Moderators

Jennifer Hottle

Speakers

Gary Nunley, Jr

John Meister

David Nunley

Saturday November 7, 2015 12:15pm - 1:15pm EST
Mezzanine West

Panel

1:00pm EST

Lessons from Lordran, a Bonfireside Chat

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross of the Bonfireside Chat podcast discuss the design principles behind Dark Souls, its predecessors, and successors. What can we learn about games as a whole by looking at From Software's approach to difficulty, world design, and indirect storytelling?

Speakers

Gary Butterfield

Gary Butterfield is a podcaster, musician, gamemaker, author and game critic living in the pacific northwest. He spends his time hanging out with a singularly vocal and affectionate cat, playing and thinking about games. You can see most of his work at www.duckfeed.tv... Read More →

Kole Ross

Bonfire Side Chat

Kole Ross is the founder of the Duckfeed.tv podcast network, and co-host of several podcasts, including Bonfireside Chat, Watch Out for Fireballs!, and The Level. He has been broadcasting about video games since 2006. Additionally, he writes the Hex Crank blog about survival... Read More →

Saturday November 7, 2015 1:00pm - 2:15pm EST
Main Theater

Panel

2:30pm EST

Life After Greenlight: Steam Panel One Year Later

One year later our returning panel of guests talks about their experience being on Valve's Steam platform. The speakers will talk about life after Greenlight, having their games on Steam, finding successes and encountering challenges of selling games on the platform. This will also have Q&A with the panelists.

Moderators

Cody Starcher

Speakers

Chase Grozdina

Ash Monif

CEO, GRIMM Bros

Previously graduate of Cogswell College, which at that time was the only school to get an accredited degree in game design, and earnestly applied myself to learn storytelling, digital art, project management, and game design. He then founded and led a team of students to build games... Read More →

Evan Todd

Independent developer, Self-Employed

Evan is a one-man studio based in Columbus, Ohio. An avid Vim user and platform agnostic, Evan has worked on all kinds of software, including private clouds, transplant tracking software, mobile games, PC games, and virtual reality. Interests include minimalist running and weird... Read More →

Howard Tsao

Howard Tsao is the Team Lead of Muse Games, an independent game studio located in New York City that exclusively uses Unity3D to develop across desktop and mobile platforms. Their projects include Guns of Icarus, a bad publisher and hurricane survivor, a multiple award winner, and... Read More →

Saturday November 7, 2015 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Main Theater

Panel

12:45pm EST

Law in the Games Industry: Things to Know Panel

Are you a video game developer, artist, designer, student, or hobbyist? Have you ever been curious about how legal frameworks apply to the unique medium of video games? You’re in luck!

Legal Basics for Game Developers is a presentation that will discuss and explain the most common legal pitfalls for those who make video games. Ross A. Hersemann and Suzanne Jackiw will explain copyrights, trademarks, the right of publicity, and basic contract principles as they apply to the game industry.

Following his presentation, Ross and Suzanne will field questions* from the audience.

Speakers

Ross Hersemann

Ross A. Hersemann is a writer, gamer, and attorney licensed to practice in Illinois. He is an organizer of the Chicago Video Game Law Summit, the founder and alumni advisor of the Video Game Law Society at the John Marshall Law School, the President of the VGA Gallery, the Legislative... Read More →

Suzanne Jackiw

Founder, GameDevLaw.org

Suzanne (also known as Zed) is one of the founders of GameDevLaw.org, a blog about legal issues in the video game industry, and a 2015 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law. She has written articles on the legal issues of game development for several online and print publications. She has spoken at several industry conferences and online programs... Read More →

Sunday November 8, 2015 12:45pm - 2:00pm EST
Main Theater

Panel

2:15pm EST

Perspectives: Women in Gaming

Details Coming Soon!

Moderators

Suzanne Jackiw

Founder, GameDevLaw.org

Speakers

Jess Brohard

Jess is an eSports event host, interviewer, and Twitch streamer with over five years of experience in the game industry. She graduated in 2010 from the Ohio State University with a degree in computer science and currently resides in Clintonville.

Jessie Fox

Jesse Fox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. She researches communication technologies including video games, virtual environments, and social media. Her recent work has investigated topics such as experiences with avatars... Read More →

Katie Hamill

Sunday November 8, 2015 2:15pm - 3:30pm EST
Main Theater

Panel

3:45pm EST

Stop Dreaming and Start Streaming

Have you ever wanted to be a streamer? Love playing games and want to share it with the world? The panel will discuss how to get started with your stream dreams.

Moderators