Full Indie

Andy Nguyen (@pixelatedpost), project lead at Brace Yourself Games, will tell us his stories about involving community in the development of Monaco and Tooth and Tail.

Bahiyya Khan (@BreakinBahiyya) is an experimental storyteller who will share her experience expressing personal trauma through her game HOURS.

Bryce Johnson (@brycej) from Microsoft's Product User Research team will talk to us about the application of inclusive design principles when designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

Cy Wise (@cyceratops), co-organizer of VRAustin and former Studio Director of Owlchemy Labs, will share her multi-year experience working in the VR space and managing VR communities.

Erik Johnson (@erikejohnson) will give us a data-focused analysis of the Steam marketplace, with a post-mortem of the market fit of his game Life Goes On: Done to Death.

Gabby DaRienzo (@gabdar), co-founder and art director of Laundry Bear Games, will discuss how she and her team successfully marketed their niche game A Mortician's Tale.

Greg Lobanov (@theBanov) will break down the making Wandersong -- an upcoming musical adventure game whose core goal is to make the player feel stuff.

Justin Ma (@JarMustard), cofounder of Subset Games, will walk us through the evolution of the design of Into the Breach.

Kathryn Hymes (@chicalashaw), cofounder of Thorny Games, will give us a look at how creating language can be a vehicle for story and a tool for world building in games.

Natalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) will speak about dealing with hostile player bases, consumer culture, and the underlying expectations that hold the medium back from growing beyond the prerequisite of fun.

Robbie Fraser (@Squidcor) will talk about creating Genital Jousting -- a game about toxic masculinity for toxic men.

Yifat Shaik (@yifatshaik), experimental game designer and arist, will talk about zine making, art-games, and trash-games.