Games & Empathy Mini-Talks

Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival is a 2 week festival showcasing and celebrating the creativity, diversity, innovation, and imagination in games and interactive media. As well as a festival for people involved in games, we want to invite and involve people from other sectors and different artforms.

Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival

Mini-talks with game designers Marina Diez (3 of Cups Games) and
Alastair Low (Lowtek Games).

A series of short talks from specialist game designers about cultivating empathy and improving accessibility in games design. More info coming soon!Marina DiezMarina Díez is a Spanish award-winning game designer based in London, UK. She’s the CEO and Creative Director at Three of Cups Games, a games studio based in London. Besides, she is the lead game designer of Dordogne at Un Je Ne Sais Quoi Studios and game designer for Me-säätiö in Helsinki, Finland. Marina will be talking about finding your voice as a professional with special attention to her role as an emotional game designer and how she approached her work starting there. <a href="https://marinadiez.carrd.co/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website</a>: marinadiez.carrd.co<a href="https://twitter.com/Ninfa_dp" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>: @ninfa_dpAlastair Low (Ally)After working as an artist in the games industry for 7+ years Ally finally took the plunge to start his own indie studio Lowtek Games. His work explores making fun, retro,challenging, dyslexia friendly games.Ally is on the board of the SGDA (Scottish Games Developers Association) helping to organise game jams and play parties and also used to help run Dundee’s local makerspace.Lowtek Games has had a strong focus on retro games and is working on tools to help games be more accessible to dyslexic players. Ally is dyslexic himself and wants to help make change happen.<a href="http://lowtek.games/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website</a>: lowtek.games<a href="https://twitter.com/Wallmasterr" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>: @wallmasterrNatalie SchmidtNatalie is a writer and game designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Having studied both dramaturgy and game design at Carnegie Mellon University, Natalie specializes in narrative design and script development for multi-media storytelling. She’s designed small-scale TTRPGs, and her previous narrative work for Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute explored human-AI decision-making via branching interactive stories.She is particularly passionate about meaningful representation of BIPOC within the TTRPG space, as well as accessibility of design within interactive entertainment. Natalie is currently working freelance, as well as on several personal projects.Websites:<a href="https://natalie-schmidt.wixsite.com/portfolio" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">natalie-schmidt.wixsite.com/portfolio</a><a href="https://medium.com/@s.natalie25" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">medium.com/@s.natalie25</a>Nida AhmadNida is a UX Designer with a focus on creating playful user experiences with accessibility and psychology in mind. She has worked on Warhammer Combat Cards and currently an upcoming social MMO. She is an advocate for integrating UX processes into game development, having spoken at industry conferences and was nominated for the Game Dev Heroes Awards as a result. She is also a mentor for students studying games, was a reader for the BAFTA Young Game Designer Awards and is on the founding team of POC in Play, who strive to increase the inclusion of POC in the industry.Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NidaAhmad_" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@NidaAhmad_</a>-Event DetailsThis event will be held live on Zoom. Once you have registered for a ticket, you will receive an email with the link and details needed to join the session. During the event, you will be able to see the speakers as well as an online audience, and you can keep your video on or off as you choose.The event will be recorded and footage will be made available online through our website &amp; social media channels for people to watch back afterwards. -DonationsThe festival is being run on a donations-based model. We want it to be free &amp; accessible for anyone to attend, but we also want to pay our speakers and performers fairly. If you are able to make a donation this would be a big help.You can donate while booking through eventbrite here, or you can donate through <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=B8KLSVF8TYLVA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">paypal</a> if you'd prefer.-Tinderbox PlayAway Games FestivalTwo-week festival featuring over 30 game designers, artists, composers, educators and others involved in games. Join us for panel discussions, workshops, demos, music performances, digital play sessions, game jams and more! More info at <a href="https://tinderboxcollective.org/playaway/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">tinderboxcollective.org/playaway</a>

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