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May 16, 2025 - 9:30am - 4:30pm
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Join us for a two-part event on Friday, May 16! In the morning, scholars of table-top role playing games will meet to discuss their research on how role playing game design and play helps to build imaginative worlds and real communities. Stay for the afternoon, when the tables will open to welcome new and old gamers alike to experiment hands-on with playing and designing role playing games. Lunch will be served.

 

Event Agenda

Panel: Worldbuilding and Culture - 9:30am

Aaron Trammell – Associate Professor, UCI Informatics

Yvonne Gonzales – Doctoral Student, USC Annenberg School

Mikael Sebag – Game Designer & PhD Candidate, UCI Informatics

Panel: Streaming & Actual Play - 11:00am

Amanda Cullen – User Researcher, Blizzard Entertainment

Emma Leigh Waldron – Assistant Researcher in Internet Culture & Lecturer, UCI Informatics

Sam Roberts – Director, Indiecade & Lecturer, UCI Informatics

Lunch - 12:30pm
Tabletop RPG Expo - 1:30 - 4:30pm

 

This forum is a collaboration between UCI Humanities Core and UCI Informatics, organized by Aaron Trammell (Assoc. Professor, Informatics) and Benjamin Garceau (Continuing Lecturer, Humanities Core). 

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