Day 1

with: Samuel Vonäsch Everybody and you
Join the conference opening. Say hello and get ready for two days of game dev magic.

with: Alice Ruppert
Many developers find themselves torn between making the games they want to make out of passion, and making the games that might sell. In this session, Alice Ruppert of The Mane Quest provides a blueprint for how to find the overlap of those two circles, based on her own experience in building communities focused on horses in games, and how those communities have been leveraged for the commercial success of several games.

with: René Habermann
After years of making games, I still can’t reliably tell if one is “good” while we’re building it. Intuition, playtests, retention and wishlists all help - but each can mislead you in different ways. In this talk, I’ll show how we deal with that uncertainty at Bippinbits, using examples from both our successful games and the ones we chose to cancel.

with: Derek Lieu
In this talk, veteran game trailer editor Derek Lieu will explain how copying the superficial features of trailers can result in a trailer which presents your game in a weak and unappealing way.

with: Jana Romanova Everybody and you
Meet the other attendees in this queuing live-action role-playing game.

with: Sebastian Riedi
Even when starting out with a prototype, many game designers are anxious if their game design works. Do players understand the rules? What makes a game feel good? In this talk, Sebastian Riedi talks about adapting qualitative UX Research methods for games: A way for designers to playtest tutorials in prototypes.

with: Yukari Hafner
Develop a minimal game with the Trial game engine and Common Lisp language. No prior knowledge with either is necessary, though programming experience is advantageous.

with: Jonas Tyroller
A collection of things I wished I knew about sooner to get more bang for your buck when making big games in small teams.

with: Ruth Dorothea Eggel
**Ethnography with game makers** Ruth Eggel's talk explores the potential and challenges of research in game studios and collaborating with game makers through ethnographic methods.

with: Baldvin Albertsson
Everyone and their grandma told us the same thing: get your Steam page up now and start collecting wishlists. So we did the opposite.

with: Joel Schoch Cyril Boehler
Case study and masterclass on interactive soundtracks based on the example of Herdling.

with: Ashe Foltin
Join Indie Game Developer and Creative Director Ashe Foltin, Co-Founder of Bold Beetle Games and creator of Dung Slinger, for a 120-minute hands-on workshop exploring how to build more energy-efficient games that reach more players and deliver a better player experience.

with: Melvin Frank Jasmin Oestereicher Trisha Lee James Schall and More Cecile Fléchon Ben Tucker
Sign up now with your upcoming project!

with: Michael Liebe
A quick impulse on whats new on the Kickstarter platform (like premarketing, PLOT, Pledge Manager, Secret Rewards etc.) is followed by an analysis of trends in video games, data and numbers around games in general, and why premarketing is the single most important thing for a successful crowdfunding campaign.

with: Michel Ziegler Will Todd
Documenting Everyday Lives through Videogames. How can we connect both forms of aesthetic media as ways of understanding the everyday life as well as opening up discussions surrounding those lives?

with: Everybody and you
Reverse talks! You have a question or a topic that you struggle with? Pose it to the hivemind and get other attendees suggesting fixes afterwards. Inform listeners about the depth and nature of your problems and introduce conversation topics, and maybe feel less alone.

with: Everybody and you
The baseline of your quintessential Game Hub experience. Everybody bring their games / prototypes / early and late drafts and let's talk and play games the whole night.